FREE monthly Japanese film showing – This THURSDAY!

また今週[こんしゅう]の木曜日[もくようび]に日本[にほん]映画[えいが]の上映[じょうえい]があります。ただ(= free admission)です! 誰[だれ]でも来[く]ることができます! 是非[ぜひ][き]てください。

Date: Thursday 22 July 2010
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: L3
Contact: athena@waikato.ac.nz or 838-4042
 
Admission Free!
No booking required!
English sub-titles!
 
ALL WELCOME.
 
"What the Snow Brings"(『雪に願うこと』)
Drama
2005
112 min.
PG
Director: Kichitaro Negishi
Cast: Yusuke Iseya, Koichi Sato, Kyoko Koizumi
 
2005 Tokyo International Film Festival
-The Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix
-Best Director, Best Actor, Audience Award
 
Manabu has lost his high class lifestyle and family in Tokyo and decides to go back to his hometown in Hokkaido. There he lives with his brother Takeo who works in a stable for a traditional horse race (bannei) Initially they don’t get along as they have lived such different lived for so long, but gradually the two men develop an understanding for each other.
 
Film presented by the Consulate-General of Japan, The University of Waikato, The Japan Cultural Centre, Sydney (The Japan Foundation).
 

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