Sunday, January 20, 2008 CU to showcase Japan Foundation's film making project By Abigail Chee Kee-Malalis
THE Japan Foundation, Manila will be launching its series of film showing at the AVR 1 of the Capitol University here in Cagayan de Oro on Thursday, January 24, 2008.
* The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) Directed by Yoji Yamada.
The movie is the first full-scale period film directed by master of the Japanese film industry Yamada Yoji.
Low-ranking samurai Iguchi Seibei (Sanada Hiroyuki) is a widower, barely supporting his two young children and old senile mother on his meager salary.
Every evening at twilight, he goes home after work to take in other jobs, declining all offers of drinking and feasting with superiors and colleagues.
His coworkers call him Twilight Seibei behind his back.
One day, Seibei saves Tomoe (Miyazawa Rie), a childhood sweetheart, from her husband's violent blows.
Taking notice of his swordsmanship, the superiors of his clan order him to assassinate a certain samurai. On the designated day of his mission, Seibei declares his feelings to Tomoe and then takes off.
The adversary hiding in a mansion is a swordsman of considerable skil1, and the match is not an easy one. But Seibei finally manages to defeat the samurai and returns home to where his two daughters, his mother.
The story revolves around a 15-year-old boy Daisuke Kawashima who embarks on a pilgrimmage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island located on the Southern coast of Japan.
Through his journey, Daisuke meets a number of interesting people, including friendly female truck driver Sumire Oba who lets him stay with her and her two kids.
Daisuke strikes up a friendship with Sumire's shy son Noboru, but the call of the open road gets stuck in his ear again, and before long Daisuke is en route to Yakushima Island, home of the remarkable tree, where he is befriended by a mysterious mountaineer girl who encourages him to live out his dreams to the fullest.
As the title suggests, Gakko IV is the fourth film in the series which began with Gakko in 1993.
* Tsubaki Sanjuro Director: Akira Kuro-sawa
Chamberlain Mutsuta is falsely accused and arrested by a corrupt superintendent in Japan in the eighteenth century. He is the leader of nine men. These nine men try to rescue Chamberlain from the superintendent.
A wily samurai Sanjuro (Toshir( Mifune) comes from nowhere and helps these guys to get Chamberlain back.
Film showing schedule will be at 9 and 11 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. A per film showing slot is limited to 200 viewers only. Seat reservations are accepted. For inquiries, call (0822) 726136 loc 276.
