Yoko The Cherry Blossom 陽光桜

Directed by Gen Takahashi (In attendance)

2015, 114 minutes,14A

Japanese with English Subtitles

Doors open 12:30 PM

Free admission, first come first served

The inspiring true story of a rural Japanese high school teacher’s lifelong quest to create the very first artificially pollinated hybrid cherry blossom, to fulfill a promise he made to his beloved students before they were sent off to the battlefields to fight in World War II. For a more detailed review in Bento Box Magazine by James Heron, Harmony in Bloom, please click here >

Join us post-film for Q+A with special guest, Director Gen Takahashi.

Also on January 15th, 6:30 PM @JFT, we will have a lecture by Director Gen Takahashi examining the film industry in Japan.

Community Partner: Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre.

Presented by The Japan Foundation, Toronto and the Consulate-General of Japan in Toronto

(c)GRAND KAFE PICTURES 2015