ASIAN SHOWCASE: SPOTLIGHT ON JAPAN PRESENTED BY HAWAIIAN AIRLINES
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
NOMINATED FEATURE DIRECTOR AND CAST IN ATTENDANCE
CANNONBALL WEDLOCK
KONZEN TOKKYUU NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
SATURDAY, OCT. 15 | 11:45 AM | REGAL DOLE SUNDAY, OCT. 23 | 2:30 PM | REGAL DOLE JAPAN 2011 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 107M
DIRECTOR: Koji Maeda SCREENWRITER: Koji Maeda, RyoTakada PRODUCERS: Yosuke Hirata CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ito Hiroshi CAST: Kenta Hamano, Anna Ishibashi, Ryo Kase, Anne Watanabe, Yuriko Yoshitaka
Chie (Yuriko Yoshitaka), a is 24-year-old office lady who is not passively waiting for Mr. Right to come along. Instead, aiming to maximize her pleasure on this planet, she juggles five guys, hanging out with whomever strikes her fancy or fulfills certain needs. There’s the suave 54-year-old beauty-salon owner (Takaaki Enoki); the tall, macho motorbike-shop manager (Munetaka Aoki); the tousle-haired college kid (Takuya Yoshimura) who’s scrumptiously cute; and the once-divorced sales exec (Ryo Kase) who listens to all her troubles. Finally, there’s Takumi (Kenta Hamano), who has no good qualities at all, save an old-shoe familiarity.
One day, Chie’s best friend Toshiko (one-name actress Anne) announces that she is getting hitched, and urges Chie to consider matrimony as well. Chie brushes off this suggestion, but begins to have second thoughts when she sees the happy glow on Toshiko’s face at the ceremony. Ever practical, she comes up with a plan — narrow her beaus down one by one and marry the survivor. –Mark Schilling
CHRONICLES OF MY MOTHER
WAGA HAHA NO KI UNITED STATES PREMIERE
SATURDAY, OCT. 22 | 9:00 PM | REGAL DOLE SUNDAY, OCT. 23 | 12:00 PM | REGAL DOLE JAPAN 2011 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 119M
DIRECTOR: Masato Harada, Aoi Miyazaki SCREENWRITER: Masato Harada PRODUCERS: Yoshitaka Ishizuka CINEMATOGRAPHER: Akiko Ashizawa CAST: Kilin Kiki, Koji Yakusho
From director Masato Harada (JUBAKU: SPELLBOUND, HIFF 2000), comes a story of a son’s estranged relationship with his aging mother. When Kosaku was in middle school, he was left to live with his aunt, while his mother and his sisters moved away. Those memories of being left behind begin to resurface during his father’s funeral. As his mother’s memories begin to slowly slip away, the events of her troubled past begin to resurface. Kosaku (Koji Yakusho of 13 ASSASSINS) must now come to terms with his feelings of abandonment as he pieces together the fragments of memories and recollections by his sisters to reveal the truth behind his past.
Based on the auto-biographical novel by Yasushi Inoue, CHRONICLES OF MY MOTHER is a beautiful and moving film about the choices we make and the scars they leave, as we long for a second chance to possibly make things right again. –Jason Pila
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CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
UNSTOPPABLE FAMILY / MY WEDDING AND OTHER SECRETS KAASAN, MOM’S LIFE / THE WIFE OF GEGEGE NYOUBOU
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