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SUMMARY:Ryusuke Hamaguchi: HAPPY HOUR Part 1
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Ryusuke Hamaguchi Retrospective: The Theatre of Emotions co-presented by The Japan Foundation\, Toronto and Cinema Moderne taking place in Montreal\, we will be featuring three special film screenings of his films in Toronto as well. Director will be in attendance for some of the screenings. Stay tuned for more details! \n\nHAPPY HOUR\nPart 1 of 3 (1hr 47 min)\nA powerful affirmation of the immersive potential of cinema. Happy Hour is a slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirtysomething women in the misty seaside city of Kobe. As they navigate the unsteady currents of their work\, domestic\, and romantic lives a sudden\, unexpected rift opens between that propels each to a new\, richer understanding of life and love. Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wise\, precisely observed\, compulsively watchable drama of friendship and midlife awakening runs over five hours\, yet the leisurely duration is not an indulgence but a strategy to create a novelistic space for everyday moments to become charged with possibility that yields a subtle emotional intensity rarely possible in a standard-length film. Happy Hour is far more than just an ordinary melodrama. It is a spectacularly complex and fiercely poetic rendering of the details of daily life in which ideas and feelings are swayed by the unseen forces of friendship and love and buffeted by the weight of deception\, loyalty and tradition. \nWinner of awards at major international festivals—including Locarno\, where stars Sachie Tanaka\, Hazuki Kikuchi\, Maiko Mihara and Rira Kawamura shared the Golden Leopard for Best Actress—Happy Hour has brought new attention to the work and career of one of Japan’s most talented young directors. (2016 Kimstim) \nDirector: Ryusuke Hamaguchi\nYear: 2015\nLanguage: Japanese with English subtitles\nWriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi\, Tadashi Nohara\, Tomoyuki Takahashi\nCast: Hiromi Demura\, Shoko Fukunaga\, Rira Kawamura\, Hazuki Kikuchi\, Yuichiro Ito\nRunning Time: 5 hours 17 minutes\n  \nOther Ryusuke Hamaguchi Special Screenings here > \nHAPPY HOUR Screening Schedule \nPart 1: Friday May 10\, 6:30 PM – Part 1 (1hr 47 min) @JFT RSVP below > \nPart 2: Monday May 13\, 6:30 PM – Part 2 (1hr 36 min) @JFT RSVP here > \nPart 3: Wednesday May 15\, 7:00 PM – Part 3 (1hr 54 min)@Alliance Francaise de Toronto with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi in attendance for Q+A RSVP here > \nEntire film: April 27\, 11:30 AM – 5:45 PM @JFT RSVP here > \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/happy-hour-part-1/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ryusuke Hamaguchi: HAPPY HOUR Part 2
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Ryusuke Hamaguchi Retrospective: The Theatre of Emotions co-presented by The Japan Foundation\, Toronto and Cinema Moderne taking place in Montreal\, we will be featuring three special film screenings of his films in Toronto as well. Director will be in attendance for some of the screenings. Stay tuned for more details! \n\nHAPPY HOUR\nPart 2 of 3 (1hr 36 min)\nA powerful affirmation of the immersive potential of cinema. Happy Hour is a slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirtysomething women in the misty seaside city of Kobe. As they navigate the unsteady currents of their work\, domestic\, and romantic lives a sudden\, unexpected rift opens between that propels each to a new\, richer understanding of life and love. Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wise\, precisely observed\, compulsively watchable drama of friendship and midlife awakening runs over five hours\, yet the leisurely duration is not an indulgence but a strategy to create a novelistic space for everyday moments to become charged with possibility that yields a subtle emotional intensity rarely possible in a standard-length film. Happy Hour is far more than just an ordinary melodrama. It is a spectacularly complex and fiercely poetic rendering of the details of daily life in which ideas and feelings are swayed by the unseen forces of friendship and love and buffeted by the weight of deception\, loyalty and tradition. \nWinner of awards at major international festivals—including Locarno\, where stars Sachie Tanaka\, Hazuki Kikuchi\, Maiko Mihara and Rira Kawamura shared the Golden Leopard for Best Actress—Happy Hour has brought new attention to the work and career of one of Japan’s most talented young directors. (2016 Kimstim) \n\n\nDirector: Ryusuke Hamaguchi\nYear: 2015\nLanguage: Japanese with English subtitles\nWriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi\, Tadashi Nohara\, Tomoyuki Takahashi\nCast: Hiromi Demura\, Shoko Fukunaga\, Rira Kawamura\, Hazuki Kikuchi\, Yuichiro Ito\nRunning Time: 5 hours 17 minutes\n\n\n  \nOther Ryusuke Hamaguchi Special Screenings here > \nHAPPY HOUR Screening Schedule \nPart 1: Friday May 10\, 6:30 PM – Part 1 (1hr 47 min) @JFT RSVP here > \nPart 2: Monday May 13\, 6:30 PM – Part 2 (1hr 36 min) @JFT RSVP below > \nPart 3: Wednesday May 15\, 7:00 PM – Part 3 (1hr 54 min)@Alliance Francaise de Toronto with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi in attendance for Q+A RSVP here > \nEntire film: April 27\, 11:30 AM – 5:45 PM @JFT RSVP here >
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/happy-hour-part-2/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ryusuke Hamaguchi: HAPPY HOUR Part 3
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Ryusuke Hamaguchi Retrospective: The Theatre of Emotions co-presented by The Japan Foundation\, Toronto and Cinema Moderne taking place in Montreal\, we will be featuring three special film screenings of his films in Toronto as well. Director will be in attendance for some of the screenings. Stay tuned for more details! \n\nHAPPY HOUR\nPart 3 of 3 (1hr 54 min)\n@SPADINA THEATRE\, Alliance Francaise Toronto (Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi in attendance for Q+A) \nA powerful affirmation of the immersive potential of cinema. Happy Hour is a slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirtysomething women in the misty seaside city of Kobe. As they navigate the unsteady currents of their work\, domestic\, and romantic lives a sudden\, unexpected rift opens between that propels each to a new\, richer understanding of life and love. Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s wise\, precisely observed\, compulsively watchable drama of friendship and midlife awakening runs over five hours\, yet the leisurely duration is not an indulgence but a strategy to create a novelistic space for everyday moments to become charged with possibility that yields a subtle emotional intensity rarely possible in a standard-length film. Happy Hour is far more than just an ordinary melodrama. It is a spectacularly complex and fiercely poetic rendering of the details of daily life in which ideas and feelings are swayed by the unseen forces of friendship and love and buffeted by the weight of deception\, loyalty and tradition. \nWinner of awards at major international festivals—including Locarno\, where stars Sachie Tanaka\, Hazuki Kikuchi\, Maiko Mihara and Rira Kawamura shared the Golden Leopard for Best Actress—Happy Hour has brought new attention to the work and career of one of Japan’s most talented young directors. (2016 Kimstim) \nDirector: Ryusuke Hamaguchi\nYear: 2015\nLanguage: Japanese with English subtitles\nWriters: Ryusuke Hamaguchi\, Tadashi Nohara\, Tomoyuki Takahashi\nCast: Hiromi Demura\, Shoko Fukunaga\, Rira Kawamura\, Hazuki Kikuchi\, Yuichiro Ito\nRunning Time: 5 hours 17 minutes\n  \nOther Ryusuke Hamaguchi Special Screenings here > \nHAPPY HOUR Screening Schedule \nPart 1: Friday May 10\, 6:30 PM – Part 1 (1hr 47 min) @JFT RSVP here > \nPart 2: Monday May 13\, 6:30 PM – Part 2 (1hr 36 min) @JFT RSVP here > \nPart 3: Wednesday May 15\, 7:00 PM – Part 3 (1hr 54 min)@Alliance Francaise de Toronto with Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi in attendance for Q+A RSVP below > \nEntire film: April 27\, 11:30 AM – 5:45 PM @JFT RSVP here > \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/happy-hour-part-3/
LOCATION:Alliance Francaise\, Spadina Theatre\, 24 Spadina Road\, Toronto\, ON\, M5R 2S7\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190516T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190516T170000
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SUMMARY:Ryusuke Hamaguchi: PASSION
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the Ryusuke Hamaguchi Retrospective: The Theatre of Emotions co-presented by The Japan Foundation\, Toronto and Cinema Moderne taking place in Montreal\, we will be featuring three special film screenings of his films in Toronto as well. \n\nPASSION\nDirected by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (115 min.) 2008 Japanese with English subtitles \nFollowing the film will be a MASTER CLASS with director Ryusuke Hamaguchi. \nFilmmakers\, cinema studies students and film fans are welcome!\nA young couple announces their engagement at a celebration with friends whose reactions\, however\, indicate that within the group lurk unspoken\, contradictory feelings concealing affairs of the distant past. While the women go home after the celebration\, the men carry on and end up at the flat of a mutual girlfriend. During that night and the following days\, tension between the participants rapidly comes to the surface and their mutual bonds fundamentally change. \nIn Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s delicately-conceived graduation film\, passion can suggest affection\, anger\, or suffering. The film treats the communication of extreme emotions as a variation on the cycle of violence from which there is seemingly no escape. \nRyusuke Hamaguchi – The Theatre of Emotions \n \n  \nCommunity Partner \n \n  \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/passion/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190523T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190523T203000
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SUMMARY:Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto & KOCHUU
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of CONTACT Photography Festival\, we will be screening three documentaries\, featuring the beauty of photography\, architecture\, light and the creative minds behind them. On May 23\, we will explore this with the screening of two documentaries together\, Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto\, followed by KOCHUU: Japanese Architecture/Influence and Origin. Then on June 4\, we will screen a serene portrait of an artist in A Room of Her Own: Rei Naito and Light. Two of the films\, Memories of Origin and A Room of Her Own were directed by Yuko Nakamura.    \n\nMemories of Origin: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO\nThis documentary follows 200 days in life of the contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. \nHiroshi Sugimoto is a leading presence in the world of modern art. He has taken the medium of photography and perceiving it as a form of conceptual art\,has extended the barriers of expression. He is the winner of many prestigious awards and his photographs are sold for millions of yen at overseas auctions.\nThe film shows the sites of the Architecture series shot in southern France\, the huge installation art 17th Biennale of Sydney\, his new work Mathematics at Provence\, his art studio in New York while working on Lighting Fields\, his recent direction and production of tradition Japanese performance art and so on. It thoroughly pursues the questions that Sugimoto’s works pose- \n“living in modern times\,what are these works trying to tell us?”\nMEMORIES OF ORIGIN: Hiroshi Sugimoto was first broadcast on Japan’s program WOWOW on December\, 2010. The Director’s Cut of this documentary was expanded from a TV program which was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Art in 2011. \nDirector: Yuko Nakamura\nYear: 2011\, Japan\, 44 minutes \nCast: Hiroshi Sugimoto (Photographer/Contemporary Artist)\, Tadao Ando (Architect)\, Lee U-Fan (Contemporary Artist)\, Mansai Nomura (Kyogen Actor)\, Akira Asada (Critic)\nMusic: Keiichiro Shibuya \nProduction: TV Man Union\, INC. / WOWOW\, INC.\nProducer: Yuko Nakamura / Hiroyuki Ohde / Hideyuki Furutani International Producer: Miyuki Fukuma \nWe will be screening director Yuko Nakamura’s other feature documentary A Room of Her Own: Rei Naito and Light on June 4\, 2019. RSVP here >  \n \n  \nKOCHUU: Japanese Architecture/Influence and Origin\nNakagin Capsule Tower \nKOCHUU is a visually stunning film about modern Japanese architecture\, its roots in the Japanese tradition\, and its impact on the Nordic building tradition. Winding its way through visions of the future and traditional concepts\, nature and concrete\, gardens and high-tech spaces\, the film explains how contemporary Japanese architects strive to unite the ways of modern man with the old philosophies in astounding constructions. \nKOCHUU\, which translates as “in the jar\,” refers to the Japanese tradition of constructing small\, enclosed physical spaces\, which create the impression of a separate universe. The film illustrates key components of traditional Japanese architecture\, such as reducing the distinction between outdoors and indoors\, disrupting the symmetrical\, building with wooden posts and beams rather than with walls\, modular construction techniques\, and its symbiotic relationship with water\, light and nature. \nThese concepts can be seen through remarkable views of the Imperial Katsura Palace\, the Todai-Ji Temple\, the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum\, the Sony Tower\, numerous teahouses and gardens. \nDirector: Jesper Wachtmeister\nYear: 2006\, Japan\, 53 minutes
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/memories-of-origin/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190527T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190527T193000
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SUMMARY:Kyoto Imperial Palace Documentary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Kyoto Imperial Palace\nIn conjunction with the exhibition Four Seasons of Gardens in Kyoto: Photographs by Katsuhiko Mizuno we will be screening a series of documentaries that bring to life the rich and beautiful gardens in Kyoto. \nThree screenings of the documentary: \nMonday May 27\, 2019 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \nMonday June 17\, 2019 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \nFriday June 28\, 2019 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM \n  \nTo RSVP\, please check below; \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/kyoto-imperial-palace/2019-05-27/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20190530T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20190530T213000
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SUMMARY:Cinema Japonais: RADIANCE @Alliance Francaise
DESCRIPTION:Cinema JAPONAIS: Thursday Movies @Alliance Francaise\nCo-presented by The Japan Foundation\, Toronto and the Alliance Francaise \n@ Alliance Francaise\, SPADINA THEATRE\, 24 Spadina Rd. \nfree admission\, no reservations required   \nRADIANCE 光\nThursday May 30th\, 2019 7:30 PM\n   \nDirected by Naomi Kawase\, 2017\n101 minutes\, Japanese with English subtitles\nRadiance is the stunning new film by director Naomi Kawase. The film is a beautiful drama about an encounter between two lost and wounded souls. Misako (Ayame Misaki) is able to capture the beauty of cinema through her words\, and shares this special gift by writing concise audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired. \nThe photographer Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase) is going through a difficult point in life as he gradually loses his sight. The two are brought together as Misako’s cinematic poetry helps to shine light through the film and slowly win the hearts of the two main characters. \nRadiance was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2017 Cannes. At Cannes\, it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. \nOther critically acclaimed films directed by Naomi Kawase are;  Shara (2003)\, The Mourning Forest (Jury Grand Prix\, 2007)\, Hanezu (2011)\, Still the Water (2014) and Sweet Bean (Un Certain Regard 2015). \nTo learn about other films DIRECTED BY JAPANESE WOMEN click here > \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/cinema-japonais-radiance/
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