DEJIMA Japanese Film Festival
May 27 and 28 2005, Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam
Tony Takitani returns to Amsterdam
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After a sold out screening at the Dejima Japanese Film Festival filmtheater Rialto offers a one time opportunity for fans of intimate Japanese drama to see the movie Tony Takitani. On saturday November 5th at 15:30 the film will be screened for the second time in the Netherlands. The story revolves around a man who is burdened with an enormous inheritence of clothes. Tony Takitani can be seen as a contemporary version of the work of Yasujiro OZU, where little events get deep under the skin, while the music pleasently covers the literary realism with a blanket of mysticism.
posted by Dejima op 28.09.'05
Audience favourite Dejima Japanese Film Festival in Dutch cinema's
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Dutch Distributor 1 More Film will release The Taste of Tea, the audience award winner of the Dejima Japanese Film Festival, on December 15th in Dutch cinema's. On the 28th of May of this year this excentric feelgood movie became an instant favourite of the audience with a score of 4,61 (out of a possible 5). With charismatic superstar Tadanobu ASANO in one of the leading parts the end of the year can be welcomed with a broad grin.
posted by Dejima op 22.09.'05
Dejima Japanese Film Festival a big success
On Friday 27th and Saturday 28th 2005 the first Dejima Japanese Film Festival took place in cinema Het Ketelhuis. From every corner of The Netherlands fans of the Japanese film have come to Amsterdam for this unique event. With an average of 94% of all seats sold per film the festival can be seen as a success.
Results Dejima Audience Award
1. The Taste of Tea 4.61
2. Kamikaze Girls 3.92
3. Jyukai - The Sea of Trees behind Mt. Fuji 3.77
4. Blood and Bones 3.42
5. Tony Takitani 3.42
6. L'Amant 3.06
7. The Bottled Fools 3.02
8. Tsuburo 2.96
Click here for a small photoreport.
posted by Dejima op 01.06.'05
21st Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival
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Films that are nervewrecking, films that astound and astonish – heaps of them will be shown during the 21st Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, from June 8 through June 15. In the main programme of the AFFF the whole range of the genrefilm, as is custom at the AFFF, can be seen on screen: fantasy, horror, sciencefiction, thriller, anime, and cult. From blockbuster to arthousefilm. From Dutch fabrication to films from far and away. Also, the European fantastic short film is being celebrated and during the Night of Terror you can count on oldfashioned goosebumps.
Special attention this year for the American stop-motionpioneer Ray Harryhausen and the Spanish actor, scenarist and director Jacinto Molina a.k.a. Paul Naschy. The first will also share his knowledge in a masterclass. In the themeprogramme How Far Can Too Far Go a special tribute will be paid to those genrefilms that were infamous for their content. Apart from a wideranged filmprogramme, specialists from Holland and beyond will discuss genrefilms that broke taboos in their day. The AFFF for Kids, that has the theme animation, will have special activities in Jeugtheater de Krakeling, aside its own filmprogramma, including Madagascar.
21st Amsterdam Fantastic Filmfestival. June 8 through 15 2005 in Filmmuseum Cinerama, Marnixstraat 400; Melkweg Cinema, Lijnbaansgracht 234A. For more information: info@afff.nl or visit www.afff.nl.
posted by Dejima op 30.05.'05
Festival Leader online
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By clicking on the link below you can see our festival leader in Quicktime format. The leader is made and designed by Menno Endt and Theun Hendrikx of Crookedline with music by Ronny Theeuwes of Lucid Reflections.
posted by Dejima op 19.05.'05
The entire program released
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The Festival starts with Blood and Bones, a rousing and epic drama about a frustrated Korean immigrant. The modest Tony Takitani, a contemporary sober drama reminiscent of Yasujiro OZU, follows the life of technical designer Tony who is abandoned by his wife. Absurd horror can be found in the dynamically shot The Bottled Fools, where an elevator functions as the ideal location for explicit slaughter. Social issues are dealt with in the omnibus Jyukai – The Sea of Trees Behind Mt. Fuji, with a truly existing notorious forest is the locale for numerous suicides. L’Amant is an unpretentious manga adaptation about a young schoolgirl who engages in a collective one-year love relationship with three older men. The abstract instant cult-hit Tsuburo is an intense emotional experience that can be described as a post-industrial nightmare. In The Taste of Tea an eccentric family produces a springtime feeling with flighty dry humour. Finally it’s up to Kamikaze Girls to put the entire Japanese pop culture under a brightly coloured magnifying glass.
posted by Dejima on 14.05.'05
The Taste of Tea closing film
On saturday 28 may The Taste of Tea (Cha no Aji) of Katsuhito ISHII closes the first Dejima Japanese Film Festival.
With Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl director ISHII could be compared to the likes of Takashi MIIKE. This time around he manages a more subtle and calm approach. Star actor Tadanobu ASANO spearheads a family of odd characters whose daily cares constitute small stories on their own.
This series of fresh and original ideas creates such an interesting universe that the domination of only one storyline becomes entirely redundant. The Taste of Tea shows a world akin to Amélie, familiar, but somehow too strange and beautiful to be real.
posted by Dejima on 30.04.'05
Blood and Bones opens Dejima Japanese Film Festival
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The Dejima Japanese Film Festival is proud to present Blood and Bones (Chi to Hone) as it's openingmovie on Friday the 27th of May.
Director Yoichi SAI waited six years until actor Takeshi KITANO was available to play the lead part in this epic movie. It’s worth the wait because it’s hard to imagine someone else playing the alcoholic and frustrated character. KITANO plays one of the first Koreans who full of dreams takes the change to go to Japan. Almost immediately he loses himself in a world that’s not a thing like he expected.
Director SAI produces, after a few light movies, a tough and engaging drama which spans several decades, based on the Korean bestseller Chi to Hone by Sogiru YAN. After a very successful run at major Asian film festivals the movie is about to conquer Europe.
Pre-sale for Blood and Bones and the other movies starts on the 12th of May at Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis.
posted by Dejima on 24.04.'05
Website Dejima online
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Finally the time has arrived for our website to go online. Here you can find, amongst other things, information about the program. When you click the Tickets button you can find info on prices, reservations and the way to get to Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis. If you don’t want to miss any news, click on the Mailinglist button. There you can enter your e-mail address and then we'll keep you updated on the latest developments.
The pre-sale starts on the 12th of May and before then we'll announce the entire program on this site. So bookmark this page and we'll see you soon!
posted by Dejima on 24.04.'05
