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SUMMARY:ON-GAKU: Our Sound (Cineplex Scarborough)
DESCRIPTION:ON-GAKU: Our Sound 音楽\nSaturday\, June 3\, 1:00PM (ET) at Cineplex Scarborough Town Centre\n(Doors open 12:30PM) \nDirected by IWAISAWA Kenji • 2019 • Anime / Comedy / Music • 71 minutes • Presented in Japanese with English subtitles • Free Admission • Trailer \nWhen you’re a bored teenager looking for thrills\, sometimes the only thing you can turn to is rock ’n roll. Having no skill\, money\, or even a full set of drums\, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend Aya\, avoid a rival gang\, and – most importantly – jam out. \nWinner of the Best Animated Feature Grand Prize at the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival and Best Original Music Award at the 2020 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. \nThis film screening is a part of the Together We Rise Arts Festival held at the Scarborough Civic Centre\, Albert Campbell Square\, and Cineplex Cinemas Scarborough on June 2 & 3. \nRegister for tickets \n \nFilmmaker Biography: \nIWAISAWA Kenji was born in Tokyo in 1981. After graduating high school\, he apprenticed under TERUO Ishii. He began working with video production on location for live-action movies and started producing animation on the side. In 2008 he released his first animated work\, Fukuraicho\, Man in the Tunnel Alley. Subsequently\, after producing a number of mainly animated shorts\, he began working on his independently financed film\, ON-GAKU: Our Sound. \nAnimated almost entirely by Director Iwaisawa\, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock legend SAKAMOTO Shintaro\, ON-GAKU brings its own sound and vision to the OHASHI Hiroyuki manga from which it was adapted. With pitch-perfect deadpan humor\, the film presents a highly original take on the beloved slacker comedy: a lofi buddy film with a blaring musical finale that will leave you wanting an immediate encore. \nFrom Director Iwaisawa: \nI was able to realize this project with effort and guts.\nI didn’t have the budget\, so I was prepared to complete it using time\, no matter how long it took.  \n \n \n \nRelated Programming:\n \nON-GAKU: Our Sound is the closing screening of our LIVE HOUSE FILMS\, a mini-series of three films celebrating celebration of J-rock and the Japanese indie music scene. \nTogether We Rise Arts Festival \nThe Together We Rise Festival is a celebration of the Greater Toronto Area’s Asian diaspora’s heritage and artists featuring multi-disciplinary arts programming. The festival is a first-of-its-kind event for Scarborough\, presenting multiple disciplines and commissioning original\, professional works\, and it invites the wider Scarborough community to celebrate Asian Heritage month through this monumental event. Join us in coming together to rise and celebrate our community’s rich heritage and artistic talents! \n \nFurther Explore the World of J-Rock & Japanese Indie Music with JFT Library Items! \nDeepen your appreciation of J-rock and Japanese indie music with JFT Library’s items curated for the Live House Films series! With our selection of fiction and nonfiction books/manga and audiovisual materials\, you will gain a deeper understanding of the history and culture behind this exciting genre. Whether you are a die-hard fan or new to the scene\, we hope the library items will enrich your Live House Film Series experience! Apply for a new library card or renew your expired card here.  \nLibrary List
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LOCATION:Cineplex Cinemas Scarborough Town Centre\, Scarborough Town Centre\, 300 Borough Drive\, Scarborough\, Ontario\, M1P 4P5
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SUMMARY:Hush! (Pride film screening)
DESCRIPTION:Hush!\nThursday\, June 29\, 6:00PM (ET) at JFT Event Hall\n(Doors open 5:30PM) \nDirected by HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke • 2001 • LGBTQ / Comedy / Drama • 135 minutes • Presented in Japanese with English subtitles • Free Admission • Trailer \nNaoya and Katsuhiro are boyfriends\, new in their relationship. Things are uneven at first—Naoya is open and free while Katsuhiro is cautious and closeted—but nothing compares to the chaos that arrives when Asako\, a troubled woman with a history of psychiatric problems\, abortions\, and casual sex\, asks Katsuhiro to conceive a child with her. \nWhile the couple navigates the implications of this unexpected proposal\, they are forced to confront their conflicting understandings of what it means to be gay and in a committed relationship. A landmark piece of Japanese LGBTQ cinema by pioneering director HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke\, Hush! humorously and poignantly upends the traditional Japanese genre of the family drama to offer a deeply human story about three people doing their best to be true to themselves. \nAwards History\n2002 Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress (KATAOKA Reiko)\n2002 Hochi Film Award for Best Actor (TANABE Seiichi)\n2003 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actress (KATAOKA Reiko)\n2003 Yokohama Film Festival Best Film Award\n2003 Yokohama Film Festival Best Director Award (HASHIGUCHI Ryosuke)\n2003 Yokohama Film Festival Best Actor Award (TANABE Seiichi) \n \n \nFilmmaker Biography: \nHASHIGUCHI Ryosuke\, born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1962\, began directing 8mm-films while still at high school. After studying film in Osaka\, he started working as a director of TV productions. A subtle dramatist and chronicler of gay subculture in Japan\, Hashiguchi won the PIA Film Festival scholarship for his short film\, A Secret Evening (Yūbe no Himitsu\, 1989)\, and thus was able to fund his first low-budget feature\, A Touch of Fever (Hatachi no binetsu\, 1993). This bleak yet compassionate story of the lives of teenage hustlers in Tokyo was followed by Like Grains of Sand (Nagisa no Shindobaddo\, 1995)\, an appealingly quirky rites-of-passage movie about a high school boy’s crush on his best friend. Both films were intelligent examinations of the fluidity of youthful sexual identity. Hashiguchi’s next work was Hush! (Hasshu\, 2001)\, a melancholy comedy about the triangular relationship between a closeted\, thirty-something gay man\, his partner\, and the unhappy woman who wants him to father her child. Looser and freer in style than his earlier films\, it hinted that homosexuality might be liberating in the context of Japan’s restrictive family structures. \nFrom Director Hashiguchi: \nWhat I was trying to do was to portray characters at that juncture in their lives\, a point at which they went through bad experiences but want to overcome those difficulties. I wanted to show the flexibility and the determination these people have to not only keep moving forward\, but also to hold on to the hope that they can still achieve something in their lives. \n \n \n \nRelated Programming:\nJFT Book Club (Hybrid) – With Silent Reading Time – LGBTQIA+ Books \nTuesday\, June 20\, 6:00PM – 7:30PM (ET) \nJFT Library is starting a new type of hybrid book club meeting where book lovers are invited to read a book in silence in the library (or wherever they want if participating virtually) and engage in optional discussion! The theme for the upcoming book club is “LGBTQIA+” in honor of Pride Season in June. This hybrid gathering aims to be an inclusive space where individuals of all backgrounds can connect and learn. Whether you identify as LGBTQIA+ or simply wish to support and understand this vibrant community\, we encourage you to join us to celebrate the diverse narratives and important themes related to LGBTQIA+ experiences through Japan-related literature! \nRegister here \nStep into the world of LGBTQIA+ with Japan-related literature and manga to celebrate Pride Month! \nWhether you identify as LGBTQIA+ or wish to support and understand this vibrant community\, check out JFT Library’s LGBTQIA+ Book Lists to discover the diverse narratives and important themes related to LGBTQIA+ experiences! \nPhysical books on LGBTQIA+ or with LGBTQIA+ character(s) \nEbooks & audiobooks on LGBTQIA+ or with LGBTQIA+ character(s) \nTo get a new JFT library card or to renew your existing card\, please follow the instructions found here. \n 
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