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Press Screenings / Press Conference
Wednesday 11 October – Cinema Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam
10.30 uur: Screening opening film THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS* (2005)
12.15 uur: PRESS CONFERENCE
12.30 – 13.00 uur: Lunch break | drink and snack
13.00 uur: Screening Hiroki-film LOVE ON SUNDAY** (2006)
* Director Tatsushi Omori will be present during the festival from 3~5 November and will be available for interviews.
** Director Ryuichi Hiroki and producer Andrew Tamon Niwa will be present during the festival from 3~5 November and will be available for interviews.
THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS OPENS DEJIMA
Director Tatsushi Omori will be present during the festival from 3~5 November and will be available for interviews.
Controversial drama and first feature film of director Tatsushi Omori opens the 2nd Dejima Japanese Film Festival as Dutch premiere.
Over the past six months the film was distributed independently in a self-built theatre in downtown Tokyo to which viewers flocked in droves. As a consequence, the film flew deftly under the radar of Eirin, the Japanese film censor.
The scenes of violence and sexual abuse within a uniquely isolated Christian community in Japan do, however, dictate urgent questions, but above all they provide a stark and uncompromising view on life outside conventional society - in all its excesses.
This is contrasted by the aesthetic beauty of the film; OMORI portrays ugliness at its best, and adds colour to the muddy, snow-covered and morally dubious backdrop against which the dark side of religion is played out.
Original title Gerumaniumu no yoru. Cast Hirofumi Arai, Renji Ishibashi, Nao Omori, Megumi Sawara, Maro Akaji, Genta Dairaku, Kei Sato. Produced by Genjiro Arato, Akihiro Maeda en Shinichiro Muraoka. Length 107 min.
THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS has no distributor in The Netherlands.
PRESS CONFERENCE – 2nd DEJIMA JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL
Following the screening of the opening film THE WHISPERING OF THE GODS, a press conference about the 2nd Dejima Japanese Film Festival will be held at around 12.15 h.. Festival director Luc Lafleur will announce the complete festival programme - including theme programmes, backgrounds and invited guests.
The contents of the festival magazine (to be published) will be made available as press material. The magazine will contain in-depth articles and reviews of the films to be screened. All films receive their Dutch, European or international première at Cinema Het Ketelhuis in Amsterdam.
LOVE ON SUNDAY (2006) – Delicate teenage troubles
Director Ryuichi Hiroki and producer Andrew Tamon Niwa will be present during the festival from 3~5 November and are available for interviews.
LOVE ON SUNDAY by Ryuichi Hiroki screens as an international premiere in the main programme of the 2nd Dejima Japanese Film Festival.
Three years ago, director Hiroki made his breakthrough from the soft-erotic pinku-eiga genre into mainstream cinema with his Vibrator. Earlier this year, his sensitive feature It’s Only Talk was screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
In LOVE ON SUNDAY, a finely tuned whirlwind of feelings and emotions revolves around the unrequited love of troubled teenage girl Akira. The day before she moves from the countryside to the city, Akira throws a going away party for three classmates. Director Hiroki allows us to take part in the tiniest details of their last 24 hours together. Diverse and casual coincidences render Love on Sunday a film brimming with contagious sincerity and spontaneity.
Again in this film the protagonist is a young woman determined to battle her anxieties - a recurring theme in the work of Hiroki. Although Takami Mizuhashi (Akira) comes across as perhaps a little sullen and distant, in all her nuanced performance she commands a charm that is as endearing as it is disarming.
Original title Koi suru nichiyobi. Cast Takami Mizuhashi, Ryuya Wakaba, Yuria Haga, Kazunori Sasaki. Produced by Andrew Tamon Niwa, Yukihiko Yamaguchi and Kosuke Suzuki. Length 89 min.
LOVE ON SUNDAY has no distributor in The Netherlands.
Want to know more?
Information about the festival programme, theme programmes, discussions, invited guests, screeners, ticketing and other matters will be announced to you in press releases. The same information will also be uploaded to the festival website
Artwork will be made available soon and can be downloaded from the website.
Request to the press:
Previously, in publicity the term 'Japanese' was frequently dropped from the full festival name. We kindly request you to write the full name as: Dejima Japanese Film Festival. In particular for those who are less familiar with the origin of the name, this addition is helpful.
The 2nd Dejima Japanese Film Festival is supported by the Japan Foundation, the Dutch Film Fund, the ThuisKopie Fund, the City of Rotterdam, the City of Utrecht and the K.F. Hein Fund.
FedEx Express, Benelux, Japan Airlines (JAL), Benelux, the International Insitute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden and Amsterdam, Jalpak International B.V., Amsterdam, Asiamania and cinema Het Ketelhuis.
