The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019

People Still Call it Love: Passion, Affection and Destruction in Japanese Cinema

2 February – 10 February 2019 at ICA, London
2 February – 28 March 2019, nationwide

Experience Japan through Cinema

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns in February 2019, touring to 19 cities nationwide with a theme of "Love". From contemporary dramas to anime and classics, it is the largest of its kind focusing on Japanese cinema in the UK.

• The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019 will show case 18 Japanese films, most of which have never been screened in the UK.
• The programme will visit 19 UK cities, arguably the largest touring film programme defined by its scope within the UK.
• The programme considers the work of Japanese female filmmakers to be important, and the 2019 edition will include 4 films from female directors.

Love, in all its semblances and dimensions, is a state so universally experienced by humankind that it has provided a perpetual source of inspiration in the long history of global cinema. The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2019 features thoughtfully selected films from Japan’s artistic repertoire, all focusing on this theme in one way or another. As the conventional binaries defining what it means to love continually give way to new understandings of this sweeping emotion, so too does this year’s curation aim to provide insights into a wider context of love in Japanese society.

List of films:

Tremble All You Want (Katte ni furuetero) Akiko Ohku, 2017
Where Chimneys Are Seen (Entotsu no mieru basho) Heinosuke Gosho, 1953
The Scythian Lamb (Hitsuji no ki) Daihachi Yoshida, 2018
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura (DESTINY: Kamakura monogatari) Takashi Yamazaki, 2017
Dad’s Lunch Box (Papa no obento wa sekai ichi) Masakazu Fukatsu, 2017
Her Love Boils Bathwater (Yu wo wakasu hodo no atsui ai) Ryôta Nakano, 2016
Blindly In Love (Hakoiri musuko no koi) Masahide Ichii, 2013
Yurigokoro (Yurigokoro) Naoto Kumazawa, 2017
Dear Etranger (Osanago warera ni umare) Yukiko Mishima, 2017
Pumpkin and Mayonnaise (Kabocha to mayonezu) Masanori Tominaga, 2017
My Friend ‘A’ (Yuuzai) Takahisa Zeze, 2018
Thicker Than Water (Ken’en) Keisuke Yoshida, 2018
Good Stripes (Good Stripes) Yukiko Sode, 2015
Penguin Highway (Penguin Highway) Hiroyasu Ishida, 2018
Tonight, at the Movies (a.k.a. Color Me True) (Konya, romansu gekijo de) Hideki Takeuchi, 2018
Born Bone Born (Senkotsu) Toshiyuki Teruya, 2018
Three Stories of Love (Koibitotachi) Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2015
Of Love & Law (Ai to hou) Hikaru Toda, 2017

For more information about the films, please visit: http://www.jpf-film.org.uk

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme is produced and organised by the Japan Foundation. Supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Airlines, Yakult, Okinawa Film Office, Japan Centre, The Japan Society, and Modern Culture.