All films are subtitled in Thai unless specified otherwise.
Free admission at the JF Auditorium of the Japan Foundation, Bangkok.
Starting from 18:30 and is limited to 40 seats due to social distancing regulations.

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The story of Kodayu is about a ship captain who was lost in a storm and finally arrives at an island in Russia together with his crew.  They have to stay in Russia for many years until they can get permission to go back to Japan.  However, they do not receive a warm greeting upon their return.

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With the river in flood after heavy rains, a group of travelers is stranded at a small country inn. Among them are MISAWA Ihei, a poor ronin, or masterless samurai, and his wife, Tayo. Ihei wants to cheer everyone up by arranging for a feast.  But he has no money, and to pay for it. He goes into the local castle town and bets the masters of the fencing dojos there. SHIGEAKI is impressed with Ihei’s skill, offers to make him fencing master to the fief. Ihei is delighted but the fencing masters of the castle town are not. They feel the position should go to one of them.  SHIGEAKI’s advisors learn of Ihei’s prize-fencing, and Ihei is told he is not suitable for the position. Tayo tells SHIGEAKI’s chief retainer that it is more important why a man does something than what that man actually does, and the couple sets out on their journey once again.

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The great tea master, SEN-no Rikyu committed ritual suicide on the order of Toyotomi HIDEYOSHI. HONGAKUBO who is SEN-no Rikyu’s favourite and last disciple tells Oda URAKUSAI who has doubted on SEN-no Rikyu’s death what he knows about a certain tea ceremony held at the Myokian House, Rikyu’s favourite in his later years.

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This film is a biography of Yukichi FUKUZAWA, the founder of Keio University. He is known as one of the prime propagators of Western knowledge in the Meiji period. He devoted his life to showing that traditional Japanese ideas and values were wrong and to replace them with Western positivism and liberalism would propel Japan onto the world stage as a leader.

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In this adaptation of a classic work of the puppet theater, Tokubei falls in love with a courtesan named Ohatsu but is forced to get married to a relative of his uncle’s wife. Tokubei resists his family’s decision, and his defiance leads the story to a tragic ending.