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            <title>SAWAKO DECIDES - 19th PFF Scholarship Film-</title>
            <description><![CDATA[19th PFF Scholarship Film, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/sawako-decides-1.html">SAWAKO DECIDES</a> by Yuya Ishii will be shown at <a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff">BFI 54th London Film Festival</a> in UK, Oct 13 - 28.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[19th PFF Scholarship FIlm, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/sawako-decides-1.html">SAWAKO DECIDES</a> by Yuya Ishii will be shown at <a href="http://www.viff.org/home.html">Vancouver International Film Festival</a> in Canada, Sep 30 - Oct 15.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[19th PFF Scholarship Film, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/sawako-decides-1.html">SAWAKO DECIDES</a> by Yuya Ishii will be shown at <a href="http://www.haifaff.co.il">26th Haifa International Film Festival</a> in Israel, Sep 23 - 30]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[19th PFF Scholarship Film, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/sawako-decides-1.html">SAWAKO DECIDES</a> by Yuya Ishii won the Best Feature Film award and its main actress Hikari Mitsushima won the Best Actress award at the <a href="http://twitchfilm.net/news/2010/07/fantasia-awards-top-prizes-to-a-serbian-film-ip-man-2-summer-wars-and-symbol.php">Fantasia Film Festival</a>&nbsp;in Canada in July.]]></description>
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            <title>PFF Award Competition 2010</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://pff.jp/jp/news/32nd_news.html#424">Result of The PFF Award Competition 2010</a></p>
<p>Grand prize went to&nbsp;YOUR HOME&nbsp;by Kohei Yamakawa</p>
<p>Runner-up&nbsp;prize went to JELLYFISH BOY by Shoh Kataoka</p>
<p>Special Jury prize&nbsp;went to three titles, &nbsp;ICARUS UNDER THE SUN by Saori Abe &amp; Nazuki Takahashi, GOOD MORNING TO THE WORLD!! by Satoru Hirohara and TIGER by James McFay</p>
<p>Best Concept -TBS- award went to ANNA by Megumi Tazaki</p>
<p>Entertainment - HoriPro Inc.- award went to ANNA by Megumi Tazaki</p>
<p>Cinema Fan award went to TOO YOUNG TO TELL A LIE by Gaku Kobayashi</p>
<p>Detail will be up soon!</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:39:38 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>INTOLERANCE NOW - PFF Award 2010 -</title>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the PFF2010 Award programme film, INTOLERANCE NOW by Takahiro Yamauchi will be shown&nbsp;in the Filmmakers of the Present Competition of the <a href="http://www.pardo.ch">63rd Locarno Film Festival</a>&nbsp;in Switzerland, Aug 4-14.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:44:41 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>Japanese Film Festival in Singapore</title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 16th PFF Scholarship Film, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/fourteen.html">FOURTEEN</a> by Hiromasa Hirosue, The 15th PFF Scholarship Film, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/water-flower.html">WATER FLOWER</a> by Yusuke Kinoshita, The 14th PFF Scholarship Film, <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/a-stranger-of-mine.html">A STRANGER OF MINE</a> by Kenji Uchida and <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2008/01/mime-mime.html">MIME MIME</a> by Yukiko Sode will be shown&nbsp;at <a href="http://sfs.org.sg/japanesefilmfestival">Japanese Film Festival in Singapore</a>, 19-29 August.]]></description>
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            <title>THE DARK HARBOUR received Special Mention</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/the-dark-harbor.html">THE DARK HARBOUR</a> by Takatsugu Naito received Special Mention at the <a href="http://www.milanofilmfestival.it/">Milano Film Festival 2009</a> ]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:14:02 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>Result of Pia Film Festival Award 2009</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Grand Prize :</strong><br />THE TEMPERATURE OF A SECOND by Masayuki Inoue</p>
<p><strong>Runner up Award :</strong><br />IN THE FOG by Ryo Iizuka</p>
<p><strong>Special Jurys' Award :</strong><br />BIG GUN by Hajime Ohata,<br />CHAIN by Akihito Kajiya,<br />ORDINALY LOVE by Shoko Kimura</p>
<p><strong>TBS- Best Concept Award :</strong><br />MY LYRICAL AGE by Shujian Ren</p>
<p><strong>IMAGICA - Tecnical Achievement Award :</strong><br />MY LYRICAL AGE by Shujian Ren</p>
<p><strong>Audience Award :</strong><br />ISLAND OF DREAMS by Tetsuichiro Tsuta</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:54:56 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>THE DARK HARBOUR received Special Mention</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/01/the-dark-harbor.html">THE DARK HARBOR</a> received the Special Mention for New Talent Competition at <a href="http://pff.jp/english/2009/03/taipei-film-festival.html">Taipei Film Festival</a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:34:14 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>31st Pia Film Festival</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<p>31st Pia Film Festival will be held in July 17-31 at National Film Center / The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.</p>
<p>Main programme is PFF Award and special programmes&nbsp;are retrospective of Nagisa Oshima and Clint Eastwood. </p>
<p>More, <a href="http://pff.jp/31st/">31st PFF site</a> (only in Japanese) </p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 19:24:25 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>SAWAKO DECIDES</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="photo clearfix"><img alt="SAWAKO DECIDES" title="" src="http://pff.jp/english/images/sawakodecides.jpg" height="184" width="340" /><p>The 19th PFF Scholarship Film<br />35mm/112min/color<br />Director:Yuya Ishii</p></div>
<p>Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is working her fifth office job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss at the office. Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter from a previous marriage, Kayoko, feels like a "compromise," and she endures each day feeling distressed about her career and love life.
One day, she receives word that her father, Tadao, who runs a freshwater clam processing business in her hometown, has fallen ill. There is a reason why Sawako would rather not go back home so easily, but she reluctantly decides to return at Kenichi's insistence. But Kenichi, who had actually quit his job shortly before Sawako, uses this opportunity to come along with Sawako to her hometown with his daughter in tow.
Thus Sawako's ordeals continue. Still, she takes over her father's clam processing company and begins to work there.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:19 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>THE DARK HARBOR</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="photo clearfix"><img alt="THE DARK HARBOR" title="" src="/english/images/futoko.jpg" width="340" height="184" /><p>The 18th PFF Scholarship Film<br />35mm/101min/color<br />Director:Takatsugu Naito</p></div>
<p>Manzo Ishiguro is a 38-year-old bachelor. His occupation is a fisherman. Day after day, he goes out to sea on the fishing boat that his father left him and pitches the fishing net.
Manzo is lonely. "I can't stand this anymore." His deep sorrow echoes emptily in the one-storied house.
One day, at the port town where Manzo lives, a party sponsored by the town office for prospective brides to meet the bachelors in town takes place. The town itself suffered from a severe lack of women willing to marry the local men, so the single fishermen frantically try to attract the attention of the gorgeous women gathered from Tokyo. Manzo also wears his best outfit and attends the party, but the result is a crushing defeat. His feelings don't connect with anybody.
Then, intruders suddenly appear in the lonely house where Manzo sits dejected. They are Mitsuko and Masao, a mysterious mother and son. Although Manzo drives them away at first, he eventually warms up to the two intruders because he longs for a happy family. Thus, a strange house-sharing situation is born.
However, although this pseudo-family-like relationship appears to run smoothly for a while, it does not last for long...</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:18 +0900</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[<div class="photo clearfix"><img alt="ASYL" title="" src="/english/images/parkandlovehotel.jpg" width="340" height="184" /><p>The 17th PFF Scholarship Film<br />35mm/111min/color<br />Director:Izuru Kumasaka</p></div>
<p>This is a somewhat heartwarming story revolving around an oasis in the city. The main character is a middle-aged woman, Tsuyako, the owner of a slightly worn down "love hotel". She is a disagreeable and unsociable woman, who manages a hotel on the roof of which a small park has been built for reasons unknown. There, old people and children visit this relaxing place one after the other, and amidst their daily existence in the cramped city, their feelings are healed, for a brief moment, in this "free zone" of the heart. It is a curious space, the reason for which it was built, and by whom or when, is unknown. The film looks gently upon the various wayward women of differing age groups who come to this small park and their emotional exchange with the frugal owner. This story of isolated women sharing in other people's grief, and attempting their own rebirth in a corner of the city, is a bold "fight song" raised to all women. This fantastic, moving and masterful women's film will bestow upon the viewer's heart a modest will to live.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:17 +0900</pubDate>
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            <title>FOURTEEN</title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="photo clearfix"><img alt="FOURTEEN" title="" src="/english/images/14sai.jpg" width="340" height="184" /><p>The 16th PFF Scholarship Film<br />35mm/114min/color<br />Director:Hiromasa Hirosue</p></div>
<p>Ryo's days teaching eighth graders should be as ordinary as any other. Instead, she spends her energy mediating a tense atmosphere between the students and faculty. Allowing the students a benefit of the doubt with her co-workers, she seeks a less authoritative relation with the students. Ryo walks this very taught rope because of an inner desire to help.<br />
For the young teens, however, there is only the frustration of having ones ambitions crushed by self-important adults who treat them as children just as their emotions are awakening to adolescence. This tightly held bitterness uncoils in flashes of anger and when Ryo is subjected to the unique viciousness of fourteen-year-olds, her troubled past is exposed, jarring her unstable emotions.<br />
By coincidence she encounters Koichi, a familiar face from her student days. Koichi is an average company man, working for the local electric power company. He has started tutoring a young boy in piano after his co-worker learned that he used to play as a child. Apathetically listening to the boy play with little talent but genuine desire, Koichi is taken to a moment in his youth when he decided to quit. And when the boy asks for some advice, Koichi begins to laugh.<br />
Ryo and Koichi share a connection as adults they barely possessed as classmates. Reliving their adolescent traumas, teacher and tutor discover that the fourteen-year-old within them still smolders just beneath their "grown-up" facade,  inflicting the same kind of hurt they resented as teens. They come to realize that to fight for the future, they need to make peace with the past.</p>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:00:16 +0900</pubDate>
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