The 7th Beijing International Film Festival will be held from April 16 to April 23, 2017, with screenings starting from April 8 a week in advance. Nearly 500 films will be screened in 30 commercial cinemas, art theaters and university cinemas in Beijing for a period of 16 days. The festival recently announced the holding of the Japanese Director's Kore-eda Special Film Festival, which screens films including "The Illusory Light", "Next Stop, Heaven", "Nobody Knows", "Footsteps", "Miracle", "Like a Father Like a Son", "Sea Street Diary", and "Deeper Than the Sea", which was released last year. In addition, the Japanese monster movie "New Godzilla" will also be screened during the festival. Today, I will recommend several Japanese films that you have to see at the film festival.
I. "Non-stop"
Although the impact on Cannes was unsuccessful, as one of the best Japanese films in 2008, "Walking Non-Stop" still won numerous awards, including nominations for best director and best supporting actress at the 2009 Asian Film Awards, as well as numerous international and domestic awards. The film calmly tells a family story, showing a deep and calm sense of life; Like "The Mortician", "Walking Non-Stop" has the essence and charm of Japanese cinema, and inevitably becomes a film that greets Ozu intentionally or unintentionally.
As the director and editor of the film, Kore-eda has always been known for his delicate works, whether it is "The Light of Illusion", which came out in 1995, or "Next Stop, Heaven" and "Distance", which have been followed by different strengths, have impressed everyone, and this "Walking Non-Stop" is considered to be Kore-eda's most perfect work so far. The film is unsettling and does not hide the shortcomings of the characters, allowing the audience to gradually understand the characters in the play and attach them to their feelings. For example, there are repeated "steps" shots in the play, but each appearance is accompanied by different characters and situations, unconsciously revealing to the audience the changes in the plot and the feelings he hopes to express. According to the director, many scenes in the film, such as the food at the dinner table and many of the lines of his mother Toshiko, are from his own nostalgia for his mother, so the film is of great significance to him. As the title, "Walking Non-Stop" is taken from a lyric from a popular Song in Japan in the 1960s, "Blue Light Yokohama", "歩いても、歩いても". This sentence also alludes to the protagonist's many life insights: "Even if my footsteps do not stop, it seems that I always slow down on the road of life." ”
Showtimes:
4.8 6| 18:30 | Hall 1 of the Museum
4.12 Three| 18:30| Broadway Hall 1
4.15 | 18:30 | Middle Hall A
4.21 May| 20:45| Broadway Hall 1
4.23 | 15:45 | Hall 1 of the Museum
II. "Family Suffering 2"
Japanese national director Yoji Yamada is over eighty years old and still active on the front line, and 2015's "Family Suffering" tells the story of an old couple who are about to usher in a golden marriage when their wives suddenly file for divorce, triggering a serious family crisis. In a relaxed and everyday way, it embodies the bitterness of contemporary Japanese society and family, and there is no lack of warmth in jokes. The world premiere of "Family Suffering 2" at the Beijing Film Festival tells the story of how a few years after the last divorce incident, the death of a successful person once again set off waves in the Hirata family, reflecting the current situation of indifference to interpersonal relations in Japan's current "unrelated society".
Director Yoji Yamada was born on September 13, 1931 in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo. In 1956, he began to write film scripts, and the main films that were made into films were "The Girl Who Created Tomorrow" and "The Horizon of Dawn". In 1961, he directed his first film, The Tenant on the Second Floor. In 1993, he won the Best Director and Screenwriter Award at the 17th Japan Academy Film Awards for his feature film "School". In 2008, he was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival for his family film "Mother". In 2013, he was nominated for Best Picture at the 37th Japan Academy Film Awards for his family film "Tokyo Family". In 2014, he was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival for his romantic film "Little Home". In 2016, he directed the comedy film "Family Suffering". "Family Suffering 2" at this film festival is also the world premiere.
4.14 5| 18:20 | Hall 1 of the Archives
4.15 6| 13:30| Yao Lai Wukesong 8 Hall
4.17 | 20:45| Meijia Sanlitun Giant Screen
4.21 May | 18:30| the sky curtain new color cloud giant screen
4.22 Saturday | 15:45 | Wanda CBD9 Hall
III. "Deeper Than the Sea"
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Wasagawa Award-winning writer Dufu Kita, the film is directed by Atsuhiro Yamashita, the best director of the Nippon Newspaper Film Awards, and brings together super luxury casts such as Ryuhei Matsuda, Yoko Maki, Kankuro Miyato and Eika Toda to compose the most funny and hilarious comedy. Troublesome but still cute uncle x nephew with over-aged mature schoolchildren, the cutest big and small partner is about to embark on an adventure.
Director Atsuhiro Yamashita is a very influential director in Japan. Although he is not good at words, he has produced and directed a number of different films with unique thinking, vision, and way, some of which have been screened at international film festivals and received praise. Representative works such as "Laipi Life", "Madman's Ark", "Laipi's Stay", "Hard Labor Train" and so on.
Yamashita records the trivialities of their lives in a minimalist lens language, completely subverting the beginning and end of the film's narrative, and replacing it with the absurdity of the everyday context, and its style is unique in the Japanese film industry where small freshness is flooded. Some viewers think that such films are extremely boring and sleepy; Some viewers saw the cold humor contained in it, and then became a loyal fan of Yamashita; Critics read out the distancing effects and avant-garde notions. Regardless of the merits of the evaluation, Atsuhiro Yamashita has become a presence that cannot be ignored in the Japanese film industry.
4.156 | 18:30| Meijia Sanlitun Giant Curtain
4.16th| 18:30| Yaolai Wukesong Hall 8
4.17 | 18:30| the new rainbow cloud giant screen
4.22 6| 10:00 | Hall 1 of the Archives
4.22 | 18:30 | Wanda CBD9 Hall
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