Japan Foundation is holding "Japanese Film Festival -- House Edition", which will bring a total of 15 recently-released Japanese movies -- all of them award-winning -- to delight Thai audiences, at House Samyan on the 5th floor of Samyan Mitrtown, Rama IV Road, from Friday to Nov 22.
A collaboration with the Embassy of Japan and the Japanese Association in Thailand, the film festival will screen two to four movies on weekdays and six different movies on the weekends.
Exclusively from Nov 20-29, selected movies from the line-up will be presented on an online platform, allowing the audience to enjoy from home. All movies have both English and Thai subtitles.
Here are some of the recommended movies:
Talking The Pictures (2019), a comedy that pays tribute to Japan's silent movie era, directed by Suo Masayuki; Voices In The Wind (2020), a drama inspired by the "Wind Telephone" phenomenon in Japan and directed by Suwa Nobuhiro; Howling Village (2020), a horror by Shimizu Takashi, which tells the tale of a young psychologist heading to an infamous haunted place to find out her family's dark history; Tora-san, Wish You Were Here (2019), the 50th instalment in the iconic Tora-san series by legendary Japanese director Yamada Yoji. The line-up also includes AI Amok (2020), a mystery directed by Irie Yu; Gone Wednesday (2020) by Yoshino Kohei; Mio On The Shore (2019), a drama by Nakagawa Ryutaro; Not Quite Dead Yet (2020), a comedy by Hamasaki Shinji; One Night (2019), a drama by Shiraishi Kazuya; One Summer Story (2020), a drama by Okita Shuichi; Silent Rain (2019), a romance by Nakagawa Ryutaro; and Step (2020), a drama by Iizuka Ken.
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here. photo courtesy of Shochiku Co
Here are the selected films that will also be later presented online via jff.jpf.go.jp/watch-coming -- Little Nights, Little Love (2019), a romance by Imaizumi Rikiya; Stolen Identity (2018), a mystery by Nakata Hideo; and Takeshi Yashiro Stop Motion Animation, a collection of four animations.
Tickets cost 160 baht (140 baht for members and 120 baht for students) and can be purchased from the Box Office at House Samyan and via housesamyan.com.
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