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SUMMARY:A Page of Madness 狂った一頁
DESCRIPTION: \nThe Toronto Silent Film Festival \nA Page of Madness 狂った一頁\n1926 Japan\nDirector: Teinosuke Kinugasa\nYoshi Nakagawa\, Ayako Iijima\n \n\nTICKETS HERE > \n\nA Page of Madness is a visually stunning masterpiece.  It peels back its inner mysteries in both beautiful and disturbing ways.  Made without intertitles\, it is from the opening moment’s enigmatic impressions and scenes\, a moving cacophony of which we’re not quite sure how it all fits together. We see a beautiful dancer in an elaborate headpiece dancing on a stylized stage. As the camera backs away\, suddenly we are seeing her through bars\, like those of a prison. When the scene cuts to a girl in a ragged dress\, dancing feverishly in her cell as if compelled by an unseen force\, it becomes clear that she is an asylum inmate\, and the beautiful woman we first saw is her delusion.\n\nJust like in Cabinet of Dr. Caligari\, a film this is most often compared to\, a plot eventually emerges. The old janitor works at the asylum to be near his wife\, who is a patient there. When their daughter arrives with the news of her engagement\, the family’s story\, in the form of flashbacks\, begins to piece together. The janitor attempts to free his wife from the asylum\, but she seems unwilling to go—perhaps she knows it’s where she belongs\, although there are signs that she may be afraid of her husband\, who may be going mad himself.\nOften called an “experimental” film\, it can be interpreted in many different ways. The director himself\, in his autobiography\, said he decided to make it after seeing “the entourage of a certain noble gentleman\, “one whom “secret whisperings” identified as Yoshihito (later Emperor Taisho). This film could therefore be also construed as a political allegory. The best films are always open for debate and however you may wish to interpret this film\, it’s up to you.\n\nDirector Kinugasa went on to become a pillar of mainstream Japanese cinema (even bringing home the Palme d’Or from Cannes in 1954. His bizarre early masterpiece was thought lost for decades until the director himself uncovered a print in his storehouse.\n \nAccompaniment by William O’Meara\n\nGuest Speaker: Chris MaGee\n\nFilm Courtesy of: Flicker Alley\n\nTrailer here > \n\n\n\nPresented in partnership with:\n      \n\nCo-presented by:
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LOCATION:The Revue Cinema\, 400 Roncesvalles Avenue
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SUMMARY:Fashion Films: HULA GIRLS
DESCRIPTION:Fashion Films: HULA GIRLS フラガール  \n@JFT\, free admission\, registration required. All films in Japanese w/English subtitles\n\n\n\nCelebrate spring with us by taking a glimpse of Japanese fashion spanning a thousand years in this film series.\nApril is also the month that international fashion icon Issey Miyake celebrates his 80th birthday on April 22!\n\n\n@ JFT\, free admission\, RSVP required. For other films in the Fashion Films Series click here.  \n  \nHULA GIRLS　フラガール   \nTwo screenings: Thursday April 12\, 2018 6:30 PM and Tuesday April 17\, 2018 6:30 PM \nDirected by Sang-Il Lee [2006]  \nIn 1965\, the country was ushering in a new era of oil from the days of coal. The location is in Iwaki-city\, Fukushima Prefecture\, where there was the biggest coal mine on the main island of Japan. In order to save the town\, which is ailing as a result of large-scale reductions at the coal mine\, a project is launched to build a Hawaiian-style paradise in this northern town. The film is based on a true story about the people who supported the construction of the leisure facility\, “Joban Hawaiian Center”.\nA high school girl\, Kimiko (Aoi Yu)\, lives with her brother and her mother who works at the coal mine. Kimiko applies for a post as a Hawaiian Dancer despite fierce opposition from her mother. A former star dancer\, Madoka (Matsuyuki Yasuko)\, is brought in from Tokyo as a dance teacher. She ridicules the coal mine and the unsophisticated girls at first\, however\, the girls’ single-minded devotion gradually rekindles her almost forgotten passion. The girls continue with their rigorous and intensive training despite the harsh realities each girl is faced with\, and the day of the opening finally arrives.\nDirected by Lee Sang-il of Scrap Heaven. The total film attendance exceeded 1 million people\, and the film won 10 awards from the Japan Academy Prize. \n  \nRelated: Documentary Fukushima Hula Girls \nThe 2006 hit movie Hula Girl dominated film awards in Japan with its depiction of the birth of Japan’s first resort park\, themed on Hawaii and hot springs. The film was based on Spa Resort Hawaiians in Fukushima Prefecture\, an area that suffered enormous damage in the Tohoku earthquake of March 2011. Fukushima Hula Girls takes a documentary approach in following the resort’s national hula dance tour\, undertaken as a revitalization effort while fending off negative rumors. Shows the dancers who place their hopes in dance\, narrated by Hula Girl actress Aoi Yu and directed by Masaki Kobayashi. More details here >
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/fashion-films-hulagirls/2018-04-12/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Fashion Films: UGETSU
DESCRIPTION:Fashion Films: UGETSU 雨月物語   \n@JFT\, free admission\, registration required. All films in Japanese w/English subtitles\n\n\n\nCelebrate spring with us by taking a glimpse of Japanese fashion spanning a thousand years in this film series.\nApril is also the month that international fashion icon Issey Miyake celebrates his 80th birthday on April 22!\n\n\n@ JFT\, free admission\, RSVP required.  For other films in the Fashion Films Series click here.   \n  \n \nUGETSU　雨月物語   \nTwo screenings: Thursday April 26\, 2018 1:00 PM and 6:30 PM \nDirected by Kenji Mizuguchi  \nJapanese with English subtitles\, 1953\, 97 minutes  \n  \nUgetsu\, directed by master filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi\, is a beautiful supernatural tale set in 16th century Kyoto and Shiga prefecture. The films screenwriters Matsutaro Kawaguchi and Yoshikata Yoda wove together two stories from Akinari Uede‘s best-known work\, Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain\, 1776) and French writer Guy de Maupassant‘s Decore! \, 1883. The two stories from Ugetsu Monogatari\, The House in the Thicket and The Lust of the White Serpent (Asaji ga Yado and Jasei no In) are part of a collection of supernatural tales\, which are largely taken from traditional Japanese and Chinese ghost stories. \nBy the time he made Ugetsu\, Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema\, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story\, a fatalistic wartime tragedy\, he created a touchstone of his art\, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives. Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly\, Ugetsu reveals essential truths about the ravages of war\, the plight of women\, and the pride of men. \nThe film stars Machiko Kyō\, Mitsuko Mito\, Kinuyo Tanaka\, Masayuki Mori\, and Ei Ozawa. The film won the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and was nominated an Academy Award for for best costume. \nEssay “Ugetsu on the other shore” by Phillip Lopate from the Criterion Collection \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/fashion-films-ugetsu/2018-04-26/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Fashion Films: THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA
DESCRIPTION:Fashion Films: THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA かぐや姫の物語 \n\n \n@JFT\, free admission\, registration required. All films in Japanese w/English subtitles\n\n\n\nCelebrate spring with us by taking a glimpse of Japanese fashion spanning a thousand years in this film series.\n\n\n@ JFT\, free admission\, RSVP required. For other films in the Fashion Films Series click here.  \n  \n \n\nTHE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA かぐや姫の物語 \n\n\nSaturday April 28\, 2018\, 1:00 PM\n\n\n\nDirected by Isao Takahata [2013]   \nJapanese with English subtitles\, 137 minutes \n\n\n\nThe first film in fourteen years since My Neighbors the Yamadas\, legendary STUDIO GHIBLI co-founder Isao Takahata revisits Japan’s famous folktale\, wrote the script\, and directed this gorgeous film. The hand-drawn masterwork was decades in the making.\n\nBased on the ancient Japanese folk tale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter”\, the story explores an unaddressed angle by revealing the state of mind of its protagonist. Born from a bamboo shoot\, Princess Kaguya is lovingly raised by an old bamboo cutter and his wife\, and becomes a beautiful young woman. What leads her to turn away suitor after suitor and return to the moon? And what was her sin\, and how was she punished? Join us for the screening to find out!\n\n\n\nSadly\, this month on April 5\, 2018\, the revered director Isao Takahata\, passed away at age 82.\n\nTribute to Isao Takahata (1935-2018) from Criterion Collection here >\n\nTribute to Isao Takahta on RogerEbert.com here >\n\n\n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/fashion-films-princesskaguya/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180430T130000
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SUMMARY:Fashion Films: A STITCH OF LIFE
DESCRIPTION:Fashion Films: A STITCH OF LIFE　繕い裁つ人 \n   \n@JFT\, free admission\, registration required. All films in Japanese w/English subtitles\n\n\n\nCelebrate spring with us by taking a glimpse of Japanese fashion spanning a thousand years in this film series.\nApril is also the month that international fashion icon Issey Miyake celebrates his 80th birthday on April 22!\n\n\n@ JFT\, free admission\, RSVP required. For other films in the Fashion Films Series click here. \n  \nA STITCH OF LIFE　繕い裁つ人 \n\nApril 30\, 2018 1:00 PM + 6:30 PM << TWO FILM SCREENINGS! \nDirected by Yukiko Mishima [2015]  104 minutes\n\n\nFilm adaptation of Ikebe Aoi’s comic about clothes by director Yukiko Mishima\, who has gained popularity for depicting the relationship between people and food in her films. This film portrays with sensitivity\, the emotions of a woman who runs a dressmaking shop and the people who love her clothes.\nIchie (Nakatani Miki) runs a dressmaking boutique\, and her focus is refashioning clothes made by her grandmother\, who founded the shop\, along with creating a few new pieces of her own. She’s been turning down proposals from a department store to develop her own brand\, but salesman Fujii (Miura Takahiro) sways her with a single comment.\n\n\n\nDirector Yukiko Mishima is one of the directors on the forefront of films coming out of Japan. Some of her other films include; Dear Etranger\, A Night’s Tight Rope\, Bread of Happiness\, A Drop of the Grapevine and Shisei. Her film Dear Etranger was the opening film of the 2017 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. Currently she is working on the film Memory of Antique Books\, based on the novel by En Mikami\, scheduled to be released in November 2018.
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/fashion-films-stitch/2018-04-30/
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