The 2017 drama film Close-Knit, directed and written by Naoko Ogigami, will open the Japanese Film Festival in HCM City, which will be held from November 3-18. Photo courtesy of the organiser (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Japanese Film Festival 2018 will take place in HoChi Minh City, Da Nang, Hue and Hanoi from November 2 to December 23.
The festival, organised by the Japan Foundation Centre for Cultural Exchange inVietnam, will introduce 16 outstanding Japanese films featuring differentgenres, including drama, comedy, fantasy, mystery, documentary and animation.
All of the films, which will be shown with Vietnamese and English subtitles,focus on themes of love, friendship, family and Japanese culture.
The festival will open with the 2017 drama film Close-Knit, directed andwritten by Naoko Ogigami, who won the Manfred Salzgeber Award for “broadeningthe boundaries of cinema today” at the Berlin International Film Festival in2008.
Close-Knit is about a fifth-grade girl whose mother has given her up. Shehas to live with her uncle and his girlfriend, a transgender woman with a heartof gold.
The film was screened as part of the Panorama section at the BerlinInternational Film Festival in 2017.
The event will include the screening of director NorihiroKoizumi’s Chihayafuru, which is based on the famous manga series with the samename by Yuki Suetsugu.
The film, whose two sequels will also be shown, honours karuta, atraditional Japanese card game. The films also feature how young Japanese arepreserving the game.
The festival will also screen dramas such as Kenji Shibayama’s PerfectWorld, Wui Shin Chong’s Yankiniku Dragon and JunichiIshikawa’s Mixed Double, along with horror films DaihachiYoshida’s The Scythian Lambs and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy.
Two animation films Rudolf the Black Cat by Kunihiko Yuyama andMotonori Sakakibara, and Mary and the Witch’s Flower by HiromasaYonebayashi will be screened as well.
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The 2017 drama film Close-Knit, directed and written by Naoko Ogigami, will open the Japanese Film Festival in HCM City, which will be held from November 3-18. Photo courtesy of the organiser (Source: VNA)
