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★ Oct.6 Sat @ 1:45 PM 【San Francisco Premiere】
★ Special Appearance by Director Yui Kiyohara

2017| 80 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Yui Kiyohara

Director Yui Kiyohara makes a memorable debut with this poetic, slow-moving chiller about an otherworldly collision of parallel lives — a girl who has lost her father and a woman who loses her memory intersect in the same house. Seri (Nodoka Kawanishi) has been living together with her mother Kiriko (Yuriko Yasuno) ever since her father vanished and has conflicting feelings about Toko’s new boyfriend. Meanwhile, Toko (Mei Fujiwara) meets amnesiac Sana (Mariwo Osawa) and allows her to stay in her house. Official Selection at NY MOMA’s New Directors New Films 2018 & Berlin International Film Festival 2018. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see director Yui Kiyohara!
>> About Director Yui Kiyohara

Magic Kimono

★ Sept.30 Sun @ 1:40PM 【North American Premiere】
★ Special Appearance by Actress, Kaori Momoi!

2017 | 99 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Maris Martinsons
Supported by Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco

Co-produced in Japan and the Republic of Latvia, the unusual reunion between a woman who has withdrawn into herself and her husband is depicted in this drama helmed by Latvian up-and-coming director Maris Martinsons. It stars Kaori Momoi (Hee, Ghost in the Shell) and Issey Ogata (Silence).

Keiko (Kaori Momoi), who lost everything in the Great Hanshin Earthquake, has lived a lonely life alone for the past 20 years. She reluctantly takes part in a kimono show in the Latvian capital of Riga. Backstage during the show, she is confronted by a man who appears to be her husband (Ogata) who had been reported missing after the earthquake.
Actress Kaori Momoi will come back again at NEW PEOPLE Cinema for the premiere screening and Q&A! Don’t miss it!
★ About Kaori Momoi

Sekigahara

sekigahara

★ Sept.29 Sat @ 12:00 PM 【San Francisco Premiere】
★ Special Appearance by Director Masato Harada

2017 | 149 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Masato Harada
Supported by Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco

A film adaptation of Ryotaro Shiba’s best-selling novel which depicts a new interpretation of The Battle of Sekigahara, the greatest conflict of the Warring States Period in Japanese history. Daimyo Ishida Mitsunari (Junichi Okada) has doubts about the Shogun’s self-interest-based rule. Shima Sakon (Takehiro Hira) is a brave general and Hatsume (Kasumi Arimura) an Iga ninja who serves Mitsunari. Meanwhile, the ambitious Tokugawa Ieyasu (Koji Yakusho) persuasively wins over military commanders to his side. On the 21st of October in 1600, Mitsunari will somehow go to battle with Ieyasu at Sekigahara. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see director Masato Harada!
>>About Director Masato Harada

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