FREE Japanese film showing in July 2018

We will show another Japanese film this Thursday. ALL WELCOME! Date: Thursday 19 July 2018 Time: 7pm Place: L.G.03 Free Admission No booking required English Subtitles Nobody to Watch Over Me (c)2009 FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, NIHON EIGA SATELLITE BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TOHO Director : Rhoichi Kimizuka Cast: Koichi Sato, Mirai Shida, Ryuhei Matsuda 2009 | 118mins […]

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FREE Japanese film showing in March 2018

We will show another film this week. Please come along. Admission Free. No booking required. English subtitles. SHIN GODZILLA © 2016 TOHO CO., LTD. Godzilla and the character design are trademarks of Toho Co., Ltd Thursday 15 March 2018 at 7pm at L3 (The University of Waikato) Director: Hideaki Anno Cast:  Hiroki Hasegawa,  Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara […]

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風立ちぬ Kazetachinu

日本[にほん]アニメの宮崎[みやざき]監督[かんとく]が新[あたら]しい映画[えいが]を作[つく]りました。タイトルは『風[かぜ]立[た]ちぬ』です。日本[にほん]のゼロ戦[せん](= the Zero fighter plane)を設計[せっけい]した(= designed)人[ひと]の話[はなし](= story)だそうです。この映画[えいが]は日本[にほん]で7月20日から始[はじ]まります。公式[こうしき](= official)ウェブサイトはここです。 ニュージーランドにも早[はや]く来[こ]ないかな~。 Hayao Miyazaki, a Japanese animation film creator, has made another film entitled "Kaze tachinu" (sorry, I cannot find the official English title of this film, but it means something like "the wind rises". The story is about a designer of the Zero fighter plane for Japan). […]

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伊東氏プリッカー賞受賞! Toyo Ito has won Pritzker Prize!

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2013/03/18/072/index.html 建築家[けんちくか](= architect)の伊東[いとう]豊雄[とよお]氏[し](71)が、アメリカのプリッカー賞[しょう]を受賞[じゅしょう]しました。これは、建築界[けんちくかい]のノーベル賞[しょう](= Nobel Prize)と呼[よ]ばれ、建築家[けんちくか]にとってとても素晴[すば]らしい賞[しょう]なんだそうです。 A 71-year-old Japanese architect Toyo Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize! This prize has been called Nobel Prize for Architects. What a fantastic news! If you want to read this brilliant news in English, you can find many reports really easily on the Internet such as this.

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