We will show another Japanese film this Thursday. This is an absolutely hilariously funny film! Please come along!!
FREE Japanese film showing in April 2016
Date Thursday 12 April 2018
Time 7pm – 9pm
Where L.G.03
Contact Athena Chambers
Contact email athena.chambers@waikato.ac.nz
Website www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/school-of-arts/languages/japanese-film-showings
Free Admission! No booking required! English Subtitles!
ALL Welcome.
Thermae Romae
©2012 “THERMAE ROMAE” Film Partners
Director : Hideki Takeuchi
Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Aya Ueto, Kazuki Kitamura
2012 | 108min. | M
Winner of Best Actor at Japan Academy Prize in 2013!
Lucius, an architect of spa baths for the Roman Empire, inadvertently travel through time and finds himself in a modern Japanese bathhouse. He takes elements of Japanese culture that he learns there back with him to Rome and is hugely successful, which leads the Emperor to command him to build a massive spa.
Presented by Consulate-General of Japan in Auckland, The Japan Foundation and The University of Waikato