DEJIMA Japanese Film Festival
November 3-5 2006, Bioscoop Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam
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Dejima leader online
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By clicking on the link below you can see the 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 3.1.'07
New project Omori at CineMart
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OMORI Tatsushi
After presenting his debute film The Whispering of the Gods at the Dejima Japanese Film Festival, OMORI Tatsushi will return to the Netherlands to promote his upcoming project at the CineMart of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007. The English title of the project is Taro the Dumbass and it is produced by Arato Film.
CineMart works as a highly efficient catalyst and matchmaker in the film-making process. During IFFR, CineMart invites a select group of co-producers, television buyers, sales agents, distributors and fund representatives to meet up with projects' representatives. Year-round, CineMart continues to actively support the selected film projects through alliances and partnerships with other international film festivals, training organizations and funding bodies.
Taro the Dumbass was selected, together with 45 other projects, from 520 entries. The CineMart 2007 selection includes new film projects from established independent film-makers like Kim Ki-Duk, Mahamat Saleh-Haroun, Stephan Elliot, Bruce Weber and Arnaud Desplechin as well as from promising talents like Alicia Scherson (Play, Chile), Fabienne Berthaud (Frankie, France) and Thomas Clay (The Great Ecstacy of Robert Carmichael, UK). Furthermore, CineMart 2007 presents first feature film projects from, among others, Jörgen Bergmark (Sweden), Pablo Agüero (Argentina) and Nicolas Provost (Belgium).
For more information see the website of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
posted by Dejima op 7.12.'06
Dejima concluded successfully
After the promising start of the 2nd Dejima Japanese Film festival in Amsterdam (Het Ketelhuis), the festival ended successfully with screenings of the audience's favourite films in Rotterdam (Cinerama) and Utrecht (Louis Hartlooper Complex), including the Audience Award winner The Milkwoman. The festival has once again lived up to its ambition to be an outstanding platform for contemporary Japanese cinema in The Netherlands and booked a 77% increase rise in audience numbers.
For the second time round, lovers of Japanese cinema from all over The Netherlands, but also from abroad, have flocked to the festival locations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. In addition, many guests graced the Dejima festival with their presence, among which HIROKI Ryuichi (who was honoured with a retrospective of his work) and debuting director OMORI Tatsushi (of the opening film The Whispering of the Gods).
For a photo report, click here.
posted by Dejima op 23.11.'06
Dejima continues in Rotterdam and Utrecht
The audience favourites of the Dejima Japanese Film Festival in Amsterdam will be shown from 8-11 November in cinema Cinerama (Rotterdam) and from10-12 November in the Louis Hartlooper Complex (Utrecht).
Top 5 Audience Award | Score (max. 5) |
1. The Milkwoman | 4,2 |
The titles that will screen in Rotterdam and Utrecht are links and the complete score can be found here.
The program for both locations can be found here.
gepost door Dejima op 27.11.'06
HIROKI Ryuichi Retrospective
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HIROKI Ryuichi (1955)
The second Dejima Japanese Film Festival dedicates an exclusive five film retrospective to HIROKI Ryuichi (1955), the director who has made fame in the international festival circuit since 2003 with films such as Vibrator and It’s Only Talk. By screening a fixed selection from his oeuvre of more than 40 films the Dejima Japanese Film Festival presents an overview of his more recent work.
Director Hiroki will be present in Amsterdam during the festival from 3-5 November.
posted by Dejima on 18.10.'06
Complete program online
Program brochure
All 22 films of the second Dejima Japanese Film Festival have now been confirmed.
We are proud to announce that the program will feature 5 international, 2 European and 14 Dutch premieres.
It’s Only Talk, part of the retrospective dedicated to HIROKI Ryuichi, received a previous Dutch screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
On Saturday night 4 November we have programmed a surprise feature, the title of which has not been included in the program.
More news about the surprise film, the Hiroki retrospective and other program items will be announced on the website over the coming weeks.
Download the program brochure here.
posted by Dejima op 13.10.'06
Opening and closing film announced
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The second Dejima Japanese Film Festival will open on Friday November 3rd at Cinema Het Ketelhuis with the Dutch premiere of the controversial drama The Whispering of the Gods, the first feature film by director OMORI Tatsushi.
On Sunday November 5th the Amsterdam edition of the second Dejima Japanese Film Festival will close with the Dutch premiere of Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, an indefinable, new step in the versitale career of director MIIKE Takashi (Audition, Ichi the Killer, The Great Yokai War).
posted by Dejima op 12.09.'06
Second Dejima Japanese Film Festival
The Dejima Japanese Film Festival is back! With more screening days, more films and more locations, the festival is moving ahead after its first successful edition in May last year.
On 3, 4 and 5 November 2006, three new theatres at the renovated Cinema Ketelhuis (Amsterdam) will play host to an exclusive stage for the latest in Japanese cinema. The festival's programming aims at showing a wide variety of original and ground-breaking films, without genre constraints; the main programme will feature international, European and Dutch premieres only. The festival will screen more than 20 recent Japanese films.
A selection of the programme will go on to be screened from 8-11 November at Cinema Cinerama (Rotterdam) and from 10-12 November at Cinema Louis Hartlooper Complex (Utrecht).
posted by Dejima on 16.08.'06
Dejima Sneakpreview
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Turned on by Japan and craving for something different in the cinema? Starting this March, every last wednesday of the month Dejima Japanese Film Festival presents a unique screening of an outstanding, trendsetting or engaging Japanese film in cinema Het Ketelhuis. Temporarily in an exclusive location with comfortable couches and drinks at arms length. All films will be introduced by a guest speaker.
On March 29 the series starts with the film Monday by SABU, followed on April 26 and May 31 mei by the Dutch premieres of respectively A Stranger From Afar (Marebito) and Bashing.
For more information see the program.
posted by Dejima on 12.03.'06
Dejima Japanese Film Festival moves to November 2006
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Dejima is back! The second edition of the Dejima Japanese Film Festival will take place from 3 till 5 November of this year. Cinema Het Ketelhuis will once again be the location for the screening of a selection of new Japanese films, never before screened in the Netherlands. A number of guests from the Japanese filmindustry will be present and there will be ample opportunity for discussion and debate.
Due to a delay in the reconstruction of Het Ketelhuis, the date for the festival has been moved to early November. By that time the festival will have three screens at its disposal, and therefore a substantially larger amount of films will be programmed than during the first edition.
posted by Dejima op 19.02.'06
