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The moral dilemmas of post-war Japan, web of complex renditions and melodrama, the trials and tribulations life throws, threads of unspoken relationships...

Japan comes to city with the best in its cinema

The moral dilemmas of post-war Japan, web of complex renditions and melodrama, the trials and tribulations life throws, threads of unspoken relationships, the scream in a silence, viewpoint to truth…it’s a reel full of human endearing and endeavours, success and struggles, all shot and immortalised by Japan’s finest breed of writers, producers, directors and actors. And bringing to the city this very best in Japanese cinema is the Chandigarh Film Society, Embassy of Japan, Japan Foundation Chandigarh Tourism and Steps in their Kinoshita Keisuke Retrospective along with the works of Mamoru Hosodo, Kurusowa Akira, Yamazaki Takashi, Isao Takahata and Aymunu Watanabe.

Famous for his melodramas, Kinoshita always had a hair for experimentation, be it a dancer who believes that strip teasing is an art in Carmen’s True Love, the dilemmas a family faces in The Morning of the Osone Family, or the true life account of the relation between a mother and her son during WW II, in A Record of Youth. The director had a talent to catch life’s pulse especially when it came to human nature and the heart of a woman. Apart from his works, there are action-packed movies and animations.

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The festival will be inaugurated by Pawan Kumar Bansal on November 15 at the Government Polytechnic for Women Sector 10 at 3 pm and will also be graced by Nizuhu Hayakawa, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan and Teruyuki Hoshina, Director of Japan Foundation.

November 15: Starting 3pm: The Girl Who Lept Through Time, Always – Sunset on Third Street and Women

November 16: Sanjuro (11am), Doraemon (4pm) and Carmen’s Pure Love (6pm)

November 17: The Morning of the Osone Family (6pm)

November 18: A Record of Yout (6pm)

November 19: Spring Dreams (6pm)

November 20: The Secret of Incense (6pm)

November 21: Twelve Pairs of Eyes (6pm)