April 18, 2013

THE CHARM OF OTHERS by Ryutaro Ninomiya

THE CHARM OF OTHERS by Ryutaro Ninomiya, which won Runner-up award at PFF 2012, will be shown at Kino Otok - Isola Cinema Film Festival in Slovenia, Jun.3-9
April 11, 2013

SHADY

SHADY by Ryohei Watanabe will be shown at Japanese Film Festival in Singapore, Jun 27 - July 8.
April 11, 2013

MORE FUKUSHIMA and SHADY

MORE FUKUSHIMA by Hidenori Kato and SHADY by Ryohei Watanabe will be shown at Japanese Film Festival - Nippon Connection in Germay on June 6th at 17:00.

SHADY will take part in the Nippon Cinema Award competition.

 

April 2, 2013

Her Res - 3 cases in which you will find me in 3 minutes and THE TOWN OF WHALES

Her Res-3 cases in which you will find me in 3 minutes by Yuki Yamato and THE TOWN OF WHALES by Keiko Tsuruoka will be shown at 15th International Women's Film Festival in Seoul (IWFFIS) in Korea from 24 -30 May.

Her Res-3 cases in which you will find me in 3 minutes will be shown in Asian Cometiton section and the director will attend.

THE TOWN OF WHALES will be shown in Asian Spectrum section.

 

April 1, 2013

Here comes the chance to see seven films by GUNJYO-IRO* with English subtitle!

*GUNJYO-IRO is a film production unit formed in 2000 by Izumi Takahashi who is a director, script writer and cinematographer and Hiromasa Hirosue who is a director, cinematographer and lead role actor for most of their films.

【All of GUNJYO-IRO】

"The Soup, One Morning", directed by Takahashi and Hirosue performed in, won the Grand prize at the PFF (Pia Film Festival) 2004.
Also "Sayonara Sayo-nara", directed by Hirosue , won the Runner-up award at the PFF 2004.

Afterwards, "The Soup, One Morning" received awards including the grand prize at many international film festivals and was long-run hit in domestic release.
 
They keep creating remarkable works which are all self-produced and can be seen mainly at independent screenings.
As most of the work has not been published into DVD nor released at theater, their only screening event in 2011 became a great success with more than full of the capacity.

This time, we will show their line-up below with English subtitle!
Please do not miss this chance!

~Screening Schedule~
8th Apr. 21:20~

"The Soup, One Morning" ('04) by Izumi Takahashi * Grand prize at PFF 2004

9th Apr. 21:20~

"Sayonara, Sayo-nara"('04) by Hiromasa Hirosue *Runner-up award at PFF 2004

10th Apr. 21:20~

"The Lost Hum"('05) by Hiromasa Hirosue *Netpac award at International Film Festival Rotterdam

 11th Apr. 21:20~

"Fourteen" ('06) by Hiromasa Hirosue *16th PFF Scholarship film

12th Apr. 21:20~

"Higurashi" ('07) by Hiromasa Hirosue *Shown at Forum of Berlin International Film Festival

 15th Apr. 21:20~

"What the Heart Craves" ('07) by Izumi Takahashi *Grand prize at the Hong Kong International Film Festival

17th Apr. 21:20~

"I am not the world you want to change" ('12) by Izumi Takahashi *Student Jury prize at 13th Tokyo Filmex 2012

★ Izumi Takahashi and Hiromasa Hirosue will attend all the screenings!

 

"Renaissance PFF" - pre event for 35th PFF (Pia Film Festival) in 2013.

From April 6 - 19, Late show and guest visit everyday. *All night screening on 6th and 13th

Venue: Theatre Shinjuku

★Please downloard the leaflet : Surface / Inside

Advanced tickets have been selling at Pia since Mar. 13

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