FILM
Planet+1 Selection: Immoral Films
SHORT CUTS
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
View trailer in Japanese on YouTube.
Talented young directors in Tokyo contribute their films to the Immoral Film Festival, presented by the independent distributor Image Rings. The results are some of the most intriguing films of recent years--provocative, perplexing and always throttling the border between fiction and reality.
Total running time 70 min.
The Milky Audition
2007, Video, 8 min. Directed by Yumi Yoshiyuki.
Pink Film director Yumi Yoshiyuki presents an obsessive homage to a 1970s pop star.
Yueikinshikuiki
2007, 19 min. Directed by Koji Maeda.
The day after too much drink and uneasy one-night stands, a group of slackers wander aimlessly through the streets.
Woman of Golden Fish (Kingyo no onna)
2007, 23 min. Directed by Shinji Imaoka.
Sato secretly yearns for a girl he knows from the red-light district. Director Imaoka tries to arrange a date--and goes along with the camera.
Fujica Single-Date
2007, 29 min. Directed by Kenji Murakami.
In 2007, Japan's Super 8 film production came to a halt, provoking Murakami to create a meditation on the magical aura of film and all its possible effects on one's love life.
Tickets:
Free Admission
Part of JAPAN CUTS - Festival of New Japanese Film.
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