Tremble All You Want (film screening)
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March 11 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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Tremble All You Want
勝手にふるえてろ
Tuesday, March 11, 6:00PM (ET)
Doors open 5:30PM | “White Day” Film Screening | In-Person | JFT Event Hall
Directed by OHKU Akiko • 2017 • Comedy/ Romance • 117 minutes • Presented in Japanese with English subtitles • Trailer
Yoshika (MATSUOKA Mayu), a 24-year old office clerk, is in her tenth year of unrequited love for Ichimiya (“Ichi”, or “One”), a fellow student from middle school. Now “Two”, a persistent co-worker, asks her out. As no one has ever done this before, she is pleased, but their relationship does not seem to catch fire. This cannot be said for the futon in her apartment, which bursts into flame from contact with an electric heater. The fire is extinguished, but her brush with death makes her determined to see Ichi again, and she sets to work organizing a reunion of classmates who, by and large, don’t remember her at all. Obsessed with her imaginary “One”, and timid with regard to the real “Two”, Yoshika struggles to find herself, torn between fantasy and reality, and between what she really wants and what she really doesn’t. Vivacious in her own mind, drab to the outside world, Yoshika is the heroine of a true romantic comedy for the present day.
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Director Profile:
After graduating from university and spending the early part of her as a comedian and TV personality, OHKU Akiko started her career as a filmmaker. Her directorial debut was Igai to Shinanai, and is well known for subsequent films, Tokyo Serendipity, Tokyo Nameless Girl’s Story, Tadaima, Jacqueline, Monster, Fantastic Girls Deeree Girls. Tremble All You Want is her third collaboration with MATSUOKA Mayu (Shoplifters, A Silent Voice).
What is White Day?
In Japan, White Day is celebrated on March 14, one month after Valentine’s Day. It was popularized in the 1980s as a “reply day,” when men would reciprocate the presents they had received from women a month earlier, usually chocolates and other confectionary. In recent years, there are those who continue to practice Valentine’s and White Day traditions, while there have also been cultural shifts around gender norms, societal expectations, and even financial viability surrounding these practices. White Day is also observed in China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
