広島国際映画祭 | HIFF » Special Screenings http://hiff.jp/en Sun, 01 Feb 2015 06:24:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.6 The Man Who Stole the Sun http://hiff.jp/en/archives/450/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/450/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 03:00:42 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=450 A junior high school teacher (Makoto Kido) illegally made an atomic bomb, and he makes unreasonable demands to the government with his atomic bomb. 
The film full of exciting suspense was nominated for various film awards.

 

Casts
 Kenji Sawada
Bunta Sugawara
Kimiko Ikegami
Kazuo Kitamura
Shigeru Koyama
Kei Sato
Yunosuke Ito
Morio Kazama

 

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The Youth Killer http://hiff.jp/en/archives/536/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/536/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 02:00:05 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=536 A young man killed his parents without a serious reason. This film illustrates the young man and his girlfriend from an objective view.
The youth killer is a film version of a novel “jain” (a short story written by Kenji Nakagami).  Hasegama attracted a lot of attention for this film.

Casts
Yutaka Mizutani

Mieko Harada
Ryohei Uchida
Etsuko Ichihara
Kazuko Shirakawa
Kaori Momoi
Jun Eto
Takeo Chii

 

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English Vinglish http://hiff.jp/en/archives/531/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/531/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:00:50 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=531 02_English_02


Money, Fame and the Knowledge of English. In India, these 3 factors play a huge role in how society judges an individual.

English Vinglish is the story of a woman who does not know English and is made to feel insecure by her family and society at large. The film is a light - hearted yet touching and transformational journey of Shashi. Circumstances make her determined to overcome this insecurity, master the language, teach the world a lesson on the way to becoming a self assured and confident woman.

The film is shot mostly in New York and captures the inherent struggle of many people all over the world with the English Language. Hilarious, touching, sensitive, and this film marks the comeback of India's biggest female star...Sridevi.

 <Cast>
Sridevi
Adil Hussain
Mehdi Nebbou
Priya Anand

<Filmmakers>
DirectorGauri Shinde
WriterGauri Shinde
ProducersR. Balki | R. Damani | Rakesh Jhunjhunwala | Sunil Lulla
ComposerAmit Trivedi
CinematographerLaxman Utekar
EditorHemanti Sarkar
Casting DirectorsRita Powers | Sean Powers
Production DesignerMustafa Stationwala

India 2012
Language: Hindi, English, French (with Japanese subtitle)
134 min.

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The Pinkie http://hiff.jp/en/archives/548/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/548/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:00:15 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=548  04_pinkie_02

This film, awarded twice at the 2014 Yuubari International Fantastic Film Festival, is the directorial debut by rising star Risa Takeha. In addition to the Grand Prix in Yuubari, the film was an entrant in the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). This inspirational film is finally coming to the theater!! Her intriguing premise of a boy cloned from a little finger lends the film a kitschy, poppy, occult sensibility propelled by romance and violence. The well-written story is full of surreal humor, cheeky dialogue, colorful images, and Harajuku quirkiness. A must see!

Momoko (Miwako Wagatsuma) is the ultimate hopeless romantic. She obsesses over her first love Ryosuke(Ryota Ozawa) though her affection is never requited. Ryosuke breaks off relations with Momoko because she accidentally burns down his house. Some years later, she accidentally stumbles upon his little finger and secretly creates his clone. She names the clone “Koyubi(Little finger)” and deepens their relations, but one day Ryosuke comes and takes away her clone, claiming the little finger originally belonged to him. He determines to get revenge agains a gangster who killed his ex-girlfriend Manami(Haruka Suenaga). Koyubi, knowing Momoko’s enduring love, tries to stop Ryosuke from confronting the gangsters…,

<Cast>
Ryota Ozawa
Miwako Agatsuma
Haruka Suenaga
Reon Kadena
Takeshi Nishina
Kadohito Yamagishi
Tokitoshi Shiota
Kanji Tsuda

Director: Lisa Takeba
Creative producer: Shu Kageyama
Theme song: “Young love” by Andersons

Music: Kentaro Fujinaga
Camera operator: Shinji Kugimiya
Sound recording: Masahito Komaki
Sound designer: Fumihito Hirama
Electrician:Shuji Sugimoto
Film Editor: Shu Kageyama
Production designer: Mariko Katagiri
Animatior: Masatoku Numaguchi
Costume Designer: Midori Masuda
Makeup artist: Misa Motoki
Distributer: S・D・P

Japan 2014
Language: Japanese
63 min.

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In the Hero http://hiff.jp/en/archives/557/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/557/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:00:22 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=557 05_hero_02

 "There is a hidden hero in the hero TV show!!"

Wataru Honjo, 42 years old, is a president and a "suit actor" (who is a stunt man wearing a hero costume and mask) of Shimo-ochiai Hero Action Club. He is a veteran suit actor with 25 years' experience and currently stunting as Dragon Red who is a leader of squadron in a TV hero series "Dragon Four".
One day, he gets an offer of a Hollywood movie "Last Blade", a film which is being shot in Japan, as an action star. However, the action in the movie is so dangerous that he can lose his life. Will he accept such a risky offer?

<Cast>
Toshiaki Karasawa
Souta Fukushi
Tomoka Kurotani
Susumu Terashima
Ini Kusano
Jo Hyuga
Keisuke Koide
Mitsuhiro Oikawa
Hana Sugisaki
Lee Jun-ik
Masaya Kato
Hiroki Matsukata
Emi Wakui

Japan 2014
Language: Japanese
124 min.

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A Lone Scalpel http://hiff.jp/en/archives/567/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/567/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:00:20 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=567 06_lone_scalpel_02

Surgeon Touma began working at a local hospital in 1989.  Touma, facing the realities of a flawed medical system, continues to help his patients regardless of past customs and work on difficult surgical operations. His belief inspired people working in the hospital.  One day, the mayor of the local city is admitted into the hospital in critical condition. To save the mayor's life, he must undergo the first liver transplant from a brain-dead donor in Japan. However, the law currently forbids such operations ... what will Touma do?

<Cast>
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Yui Natsukawa
Yu Yoshizawa
Noriko Nakagoshi
Kenichi Yajima
Yutaka Matsushige
Hiroki Narimiya
Tetsuhiko Touma
Mitsuru Hirata
Kimiko Yo
Katsuhisa Namase

Japan 2010
Language: Japanese
126 min.

kato
 ※ 上映後、脚本の加藤正人氏によるトークショーがあります。

 

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Little Boy (World Premiere) http://hiff.jp/en/archives/578/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/578/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 22:00:20 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=578 07_littleboy_02

<Story> 
A young American boy struggles to achieve the impossible...bring his father back from World War II.

<CAST> Jakob Salvati
Emily Watson
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Michael Rapaport
David Henrie
Ben Chaplin
Eduardo Verastegui
Ted Levine
Ali Landry
Abraham Benrubi
Kevin James
Tom Wilkinson

<Filmmakers>
Director: Alejandro Monteverde
Writers: Alejandro Monteverde | Pepe Portillo
Producers: Leo Severino | Eduardo Verástegui
Cinematographer: Andrew Cadelago

United States of America 2015
Language: English (with Japanese subtitle)
112 min.

 

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Mindset http://hiff.jp/en/archives/589/ http://hiff.jp/en/archives/589/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:00:33 +0000 http://hiff.jp/?p=589 07_omoi_02

Gajirou Honda is a self-centered man who only cares about money and women. When he’s involved in a car accident, he encounters the ghosts of the deceased occupants of the other car, including the driver and three pole dancers. The four ghosts promise him a large sum of money in exchange for his help fulfilling their last wishes, thus allowing their spirits to pass over to the afterlife.

<Cast>
Masaki Okada
Ryoko Hirosue
Haruka Kinami
Takeshi Kaga

Director: Yuichiro Hirakawa
Writer: Takaya Okamoto (novel), HARU
Music Suguru Matsutani

Japan 2014
Language: Japanese
118 min.

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