EVENTS: Spring 2014 Geddes Japanese Movie Series
Every other Wednesdays
CAS 537C, 725 Commonwealth Ave.
The Dept. of MLCL, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, the Boston University’s Geddes Language Center, and the Japanese Student Association are pleased to present the Spring 2014 Japanese Film Series. Films will be screened at the Geddes Center on the fifth floor of CAS starting at 6:30 p.m. All films will be subtitled. ＴThe rest of the dates and showings are as follows:
2/19 – お葬式 The Funeral (1986) Length: 02:04:00
A comedy about Japanese society in transition: the age-old Buddhist rituals prove too complicated for a modern husband and wife when her father dies.
Director: HayItami, Juzo
3/5 – 紅の豚 Porco Russo (2005) Length: 01:34:00
The adventures of a 1920’s bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig.
Director: Miyazaki, Hayao
3/19 – 家族ゲームFamily Game (1983) Length: 01:46:00
A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a tutor must be hired. The tutor, played by the prototypical bad-boy actor Matsuda Yusaku, proceeds to blow the entire family apart (Matsuda’s role is modeled on the myth of Susano-o no mikoto, the renegade deity who figures in the Kojiki)
Director: Morita, Yoshimitsu
4/2 – 二郎は鮨の夢を見るJiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) Length: 01:22:00
Follows Jiro Ono, an 85-year-old sushi master and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a Michelin three-star restaurant, on his continuing quest to perfect the art of sushi. The film also profiles Jiro’s two sons, both of whom are also sushi chefs.
Director: Gelb, David
4/16 –ノルウェイの森 Norwagian Wood (2010) Length: 02:13:00
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki’s girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
Director: Hung, Tran Anh
4/30 –天空の城ラピュタLaputa: Castle in the Sky (1986) Length: 02:04:00
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
For further information, contact henstock@bu.edu (Mariko Itoh Henstock, Ph.D.)
夢 Dreams (1990) Length: 02:00:00
A 1990 magical realism film based on actual dreams of the film’s director, Akira Kurosawa at different stages of his life. The film is more imagery than dialogue.
Director: Kurosawa, Akira