| Friday, August 5, 2016 Awaking [Tamamoe!] 2006 125 mins.The peaceful days of Toshiko with her retired husband takes a sharp turn when he dies suddenly from a heart attack. After the funeral, she discovered many things he had hidden from her. These events make Toshiko, who has so far been an ordinary housewife, gradually awakens to a sense of independence. |
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| | Friday, August 19, 2016 Acacia walk (アカシアの道) Directed by MATSUOKA George 2001 90 mins.Editor Miwako Kijima hears from her aunt about her mother’s illness. The mother, Kanako worked as a teacher, and raise Miwako as a single parent. Life was hard for Kanako, and she was cruel to Miwako. Her mother became very ill, which surprise Miwako as she has not contacted her mother since starting university. Miwako is told that her mother suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, and she reluctantly accepts to go back and live with her. The days are full of stress and yelling at her mother. She feels bad because she’s doing the same as what her mother did to her. She starts to see her ex-boyfriend Sawaki to relieve the stress. However she feels as if no one understands her. |
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| | Friday, August 26, 2016 Faraway Sunset (遠き落日) Directed by KOYAMA Seiijiro(神山征二郎) 1992 119 mins.This is a biographical film focusing on the mother of the Japanese microbiologist, Hideyo Noguchi who discovered the spirochete culture of syphilis and gained world-wide fame. |
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| *** All films are subtitled in Thai unless specified otherwise *** *** Free admission at the Seminar Room of the Japan Foundation, Bangkok at 18.30 hours on Friday. *** |
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