Envy friends in Shanghai!
The Shanghai Arts Film Alliance's annual Japan Film Festival, which has been running since 2015, is coming, and this year's Japan Film Festival is scheduled to screen eight works of different styles on the weekends of August 24-26 and August 31-September 2, to meet the needs of audiences at all levels.
The eight films screened at the Japan Film Festival are digital copies, and each film is screened twice, so let's take a look at the introduction of these films:
Omen (140 min.)
Release date in Japan: 2017-11-11
This film is the work of the Japanese film master Kiyoshi Kurosawa who brought the famous stage play "The Walking Invaders" to the big screen, and one of his film versions was shortlisted for the Cannes International Film Festival, and at the same time, he made a TV series, which is the theatrical version of the TV series. The film tells the story of aliens about to invade the earth, sending some representatives to the earth to collect the "concept" of human beings, and a series of stories derived from it are starring stars such as Xia Fan, Someya Shota, and Higashi Izumi Masada. Fans who have seen the Cannes version before and have not seen this version will have special fun watching it, and even if they have seen it, going to the big screen to enjoy the high looks of the three leading actors is definitely worth the ticket price.
The Sheep Tree (126 min.)
Release date in Japan: 2018-2-3
The film is based on the manga of the same name, co-authored by manga artist and novelist Ryuhiko Yamagami and manga artist Mikio Igarashi, which won the Excellence Award in the Manga Department of the 18th Media Arts Festival of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. The film is directed by Yoshida Daihachi, a powerful director who once directed "Kirishima is going to retire", and his last "Beautiful Star" was also screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival Japan New Film Exhibition at the end of 2017, and this time there are new films coming to Shanghai. The film depicts human nature by depicting the nature of human beings by depicting the events that take place in a harbor city that has a criminal record, starring Ryo Nishikido, one of the members of the Janis group "Seki 8", and a star cast familiar to fans of Bunko Kimura, Kazuki Kitamura, and Ryuhei Matsuda.
Ice Cream and the Sound of Rain (74 min.)
Release date in Japan: 2018-3-3
Directed by Daigo Matsui, one of the most talented new generation directors in Japan, the film tells the story of a group of young people who are cut in the middle of a rehearsal stage play. The production of the film originated from the real experience of being cut in the middle of a stage play, which is a youth group portrait story with the theme of "film and stage play", using the technique of playing time and space in one shot, shuttling between "reality and fiction", the well-known music group MOROHA not only served as a music producer, but also starred in the film in a special way. The film was shortlisted for the Japanese Film Trendy Section of the Tokyo International Film Festival, and was also well received when it was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival, and was also awarded a five-star full score on Douban by the well-known poisonous tongue film critic Kai Yin (nine flies hitting the wall) and the lone island owner.
Marmalade Boy (127 min.)
Release date in Japan: 2018-4-27
This film is based on the classic girl manga "Marmalade Boy", which has been adapted into a TV anime and live-action TV series, and has always been super popular. Directed by Ryuichi Hiroki, a well-creative art director in the field of girly manga in recent years, the film tells the story of the male and female protagonists who live under the same roof due to the divorce and reunion of their parents, and the popular idol actor Ryo Yoshizawa and Sakurai Hinata co-starred.
D5: 5 Detectives (93 min.)
Release date in Japan: 2018-5-5
Five top detectives are summoned to a theater, the client is a mysterious "Master Q", they want to work together to find out a murder that occurred in the theater, and the victim is an internationally renowned IT company rich man, what is the big conspiracy in this? A special work dedicated to anime and voice actor fans, directed by Gen Takahashi, it blends the art form of stage drama and film. The film is co-starred by five legendary voice actors with high popularity, which is also the first time they have appeared on the screen together, which can be described as the lineup is against the sky. They are Hikaru Midorikawa (Slam Dunk Master Kaede Ryukawa, etc.), Katsuyuki Konishi (masterpiece "Psychic King" Amitabha Maru, etc.), Daisuke Kishio (masterpiece "Vampire Knight" Kuranshu, etc.), Daisuke Nagawa (representative work "Grim Reaper" Urquiola Seifa, etc., who directed and starred in live-action movies), Morikubo Shotaro ("Naruto" Nara Shikamaru, etc.).
Lottery Benefit Trailer: The film's director, Gen Takahashi, has specially prepared two sets of collector's edition official posters for fans (each set includes five individual posters of voice actors and a collective poster), which will be given away by six spectators after the two screenings of the film.
"HURRY GO ROUND" (107 mins)
Release date in Japan: 2018-5-26
Also known as Hide's Life and Death, the film is a musical documentary filmed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of hide, guitarist hide, who died in May 1998 at the age of 33, and recalls the last period of Hide's life under the leadership of young actor Yuma Yamoto. Directed by documentary filmmaker Tomotoru Ishikawa, the title comes from Hide's last song, whose lyrics are also engraved on his grave. This work was just released in Japan in May, and it is about to land at the Hong Kong Summer Film Festival, and the Shanghai Art Film Alliance also communicated for the first time, winning two screenings for mainland film fans, which is also the mainland premiere of this film, for all the fans of "X JAPAN" and the Japanese visual band, this film is a very memorable and must-see work.
"Roast Meat Dragon" (126 min.)
Release date in Japan: 2018-6-22
The director of this film is the famous screenwriter Zheng Yixin, who has written the scripts of such masterpieces as "Blood and Bone" and "The Murder of a Mature Woman", and this adaptation of the stage play of the same name created by him is also his first work as a director. The film tells the story of a family running a yakiniku restaurant in a slum during the period of high economic development in the 1970s, with a laughing and tearful life, starring Yoko Maki, Masayoshi Inoue, Nanami Sakuraba, and Hiroshi Ozumi, with a luxurious lineup.
The End of the Curtain Sun (110 min.)
Release date in Japan: 1957-7-14
"The Legend of the Sun at the End of the Curtain" (digital restoration version) is the most special work in this Japanese film festival based on new films, and it joins the festival in the form of old films and new releases, which is not only a new definition of "new films", but also a response to last year's Japanese Film Masters Exhibition. This film is the masterpiece of Yuzo Kawashima, who died young at the age of 45, and was selected by the "Movie Shunbun" as the seventh film master in the history of Japanese cinema, Yuzo Kawashima, and one of the screenwriters is another film master, Masahira Imamura. Recognized as one of the most outstanding comedies in the history of Japanese cinema, the film was selected as the fifth of the top ten in the history of Japanese cinema, and also influenced the creation of Evangelion by the famous animation director Hideaki Anno. The film is based on the classic passage in Japan's "Rakugo (similar to stand-up comedy)", depicting how the protagonist Saheiji skillfully performed deception in the brothels of the Edo period, mixing food between characters from various classes, and matching the Rakugo bridge with the plot of the movie to form a super costume satire comedy. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Yuzo Kawashima's birth, and as part of Nikko's many commemorative plans, the Shanghai Art Film Alliance will also bring the latest digital restoration of the work to Shanghai audiences.
【Film Schedule】
Ticket price: 60 yuan / piece
Ticketing:
1. Offline: Daguang Cinema and Shanghai Cinema purchase tickets on site
2. Online: Taobao ticket app, Cat's Eye Movie App to buy tickets, according to the convention, open the app, find the Great Bright Cinema and Shanghai Cinema, find the corresponding title and corresponding number of scenes in the film column to buy.
Friendly Reminder:
1. The correct name of the theater in the ticketing app is "SFC Shanghai Cinema" (Taobao Ticket, Cat's Eye) and "Great Bright Cinema (Nanjing West Road Store)" (Cat's Eye), "Shanghai Great Bright Cinema" (Taobao Ticket). Among them, the films in the Taobao ticket app are concentrated for a "Japan Movie Week" and can further select the corresponding films and scenes after selecting "Japan Movie Week", and the Maoyan app can be selected separately for each film.
1, the process of online ticketing is like this: offline theater opening data, ticketing app and cat's eye movie app read the data to unlock each session, theoretically there will be a time difference; it is recommended that before 12 o'clock can also be brushed
2. If you see all the seats in full red before 12:00 noon on August 10, it is not that all of them are sold out, but that the custom of locking the ticket at 12:00 is locked. By 12:00 noon, the seats for all sessions will theoretically change from red to white to become available seats. Of course, it's also possible that you won't find anything before 12 noon, and it doesn't matter, there should be at 12 o'clock.