Film Festival 2012 – Programme, practical, etc
07/03/2012 – 11/03/2012
Program, practical, prices, tickets, … →
Scabbard Samurai
Wed 07/03/2012 – 8:00 PM
A down-and-out loser samurai is captured with his smart-alecky daughter and given 30 days to save himself from ritual suicide. His assignment: to make the son of a local clan leader laugh. What follows is a barrage of 30 sometimes bizarrely light-hearted, then hilariously over-the-top jokes. Saya Zamurai is the third feat of the famous … →
Underwater Love
Thu 08/03/2012 – 8:00 PM
If Underwater Love had been a dish, it would have been called Frikandel Special: a somewhat grotesque 18 cm piece of meat behind which a bombardment of flavours is hidden. So you shouldn’t come to Underwater Love for molecular cuisine, but for a guilty pleasure all the more so. Even though the photography is by … →
Permanent Nobara
Fri 09/03/2012 – 8:00 PM
It can hardly be more Japanese than this film: based on a manga, starring an ex-pop singer, and with the theme of the search for a new life in the village of her birth. Yet Daihachi Yoshida’s 4th feature film does not fall into clichés: this is a tragicomedy with a high independent-women content. The … →
Monsters Club
Fri 09/03/2012 – 10:30 PM
We are not yet far into 2012, but it promises to be a turbulent socio-economic year. The modern world has become a spectacle between desperate governments, their expectant citizens and those who will no longer accept it. Ryoichi belongs to the latter category, but instead of reclaiming the centre of society, he occupies a snow-drenched … →
Guilty Of Romance
Sat 10/03/2012 – 8:00 PM
In an abandoned building in the love hotel district of Shibuya, the body of a woman is found, or rather: two mannequins carrying her limbs. Police inspector Kazuko is called away from an intimate gathering in Code37 style to the crime scene and will unravel the true story behind the gruesome discovery together with the … →
Sketch Of Mujo
Sun 11/03/2012 – 8:00 PM
Exactly 1 year after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that cost the lives of more than 15,000 people, we bring you this exceptional documentary in memory that shows you like no other the material and emotional devastation of the Tohoku region shortly after the quake. Documentary maker Omiya was one of the first to return … →
Film Festival 2012 – Sponsors, photos, etc
07/03/2012 – 11/03/2012
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