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Japan Foundation Touring Festival 2011
Cure Cure
Cure and One Million Yen Girl
The Bird People In China (Country: Japan; Year: 1998; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Masa Nakamura, Makoto Shiina; Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Michiko Kase, Yuichi Minato, Tomohiko Okuda, Manzô Shinra, Li Li Wang)
A Tokyo workaholic stumbles on a Chinese hill tribe.
Cure (Kyua) (Country: Japan; Year: 1997; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato Hagiwara)
A detective investigates a series of murders, trying to work out why, despite each having the same methodology, the perpatrators appear to be different.
Full Review See: Feature on Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s - Japanese Touring Film Festival
Go (Country: Japan; Year: 2001; Director: Isao Yukisada; Writer: Kankuro Kudo, based on the novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro; Stars: Yosuke Kubozuka, Kou Shibasaki, Tsutomu Yamakazi, Shonobu Ootake, Taro Yamamoto, Takahito Hosoyama, Mitsuri Murata, Kaynam Myung, Ren Ohsugi, Sensie Shiomi)
Korean youth in Japan fights against prejudice.
Full Review See: Feature on Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s - Japanese Touring Film Festival
Josee, The Tiger And The Fish (Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Isshin Inudô; Writer: Seiko Tanabe, Aya Watanabe; Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Juri Ueno, Hirofumi Arai, YosiYosi Arakawa, Noriko Eguchi, Daigo Fujisawa, Kazuhiro Fujiwara, Itsuji Itao, Tai Kageyama, Anne Mari, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Koji Ookura, Eiko Shinya, Hiroyuki Tanaka)
A student falls for a disabled girl.
Linda Linda Linda (Country: Japan; Year: 2005; Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Kôsuke Mukai, Wakako Miyashita, Nobuhiro Yamashita; Stars: Bae Doona, Yu Kashii, Aki Maeda, Shiori Sekine, Tayako Mimura), Official Site
In the days before the school's culture festival, a girl's music group is facing a dilemma.
Full Review See: Feature on Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s - Japanese Touring Film Festival
Sawako Decides Sawako Decides
Sawako Decides and Linda Linda Linda
One Million Yen Girl (Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Yuki Tanada; Writer: Yuki Tanada; Stars: Yû Aoi, Mirai Moriyama, Pierre Taki, Terunosuke Takezai, Ryûsei Saitô, Sumie Sasaki, Noriko Eguchi, Kami Hiraiwa, Keisuke Horibe, Tarô Ishida, Midoriko Kimura, Kôta Mizumori, Ayumu Saitô, Takashi Sasano, Kyûsaku Shimada)
A girl uses a target of earning a million yen to dictate when she moves from place to place.
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Sawako Decides (Kawa No Soko Kara Konnichi Wa) (Country: Japan; Year: 2009; Director: Yuya Ishii; Writer: Yuya Ishii; Stars: Hikari Mitsushima, Masashi Endo, Kira Aihara, Kotaro Shiga, Ryo Iwamatsu)
A young woman struggles to save her family's ailing clam-packing business.
Full Review See: Feature on Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s - Japanese Touring Film Festival
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