FREE Japanese film showing – October 2011

今週[こんしゅう]の木曜日[もくようび]、また無料[むりょう] (= free admission)日本[にほん]映画[えいが]上映会[じょうえいかい]があります。今月[こんげつ]の映画[えいが]は、DVDなのでキャンセルはありません。どうぞ是非[ぜひ][]に来[]てください。

 

Free Japanese film showing – October 2011

 

Date: Thursday 6 October 2011

Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Location: L3

Contact: dianek@waikato.ac.nz or 838-4932

Website:

http://www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp/auckland/culture/consulate_films.htm

 

Admission Free!

No booking required!

English sub-titles!

 

ALL WELCOME.

 

"Best Wishes for Tomorrow" 『明日への遺言』

Director : Takashi Koizumi

2008

110min

M

Cast : Makoto Fujita, Sumiko Fuji, Masahiko Nishimura

 

Wartime past offers lessons for today

 

The post war trial of Lieutenant General Tasuku Okada, who took

responsibility for ordering the execution of 38 captured US prisoners of

war, after he considered them to be war criminals instead for the war time

firebombing of Nagoya. Okada took full blame for the war crime, in effect,

shielding his subordinates from harsh punishment and earning him wide

respect. The movie seeks to call attention to the unresolved question of

American war crime culpability in the fire and atomic bombings of Japan.

 

Presented by The Consulate-General of Japan, The University of Waikato,

and The Japan Culture Centre, Sydney (The Japan Foundation).

 

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