Peaches (Bunny in Hovel, emerger & Csikspost)

Peaches is a collection of three films – Bunny in Hovel, emerger and Csikspost. Descriptions of each are below.

Bunny in Hovel

月夜のバニー (Tsukiyo no banii)

Director: Mayumi Yabe
Writer: Mayumi Yabe
Cinematographer: Tatsuaki Sumi
2009  30 min.

CANADIAN PREMIERE

A family made up of a single mother, her a young son and her mute daughter, live in the backwoods of Japan, keeping the domestic abuse that takes place in their household a secret, but when the family’s prodigal son returns home after three years he brings his own dark secrets and his own brand of violent justice.

Screening Time: Saturday, August 22nd @ 1:45 PM

Official Website: http://www.momomatsuri.com/index.html

emerger

Director: Aki Sato
Writer: Aki Sato
Cinematography: Yutaka Koide
2008 42 min.

CANADIAN PREMIERE

Two injured souls, a housewife (Fusako Urabe) whose husband is more concerned with fly-fishing than he is with his marriage and a gay man (Mitsugu Sato) trying to reconnect with his ex-lover, search for human connection by surveying the patrons coming and going from the love hotel across from their apartment building. Is the connection that they are desperately looking for standing right next to them… and is all what it really seems?

Screening Time: Saturday, August 22nd @ 2:00 PM

Official Website: http://www.momomatsuri.com/index.html

Reviews:
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Csikspost

クシコスポスト(Kushikosuposuto)

Director: Yumiko Beppu
Writer: Yumiko Beppu
Cinematography: Noriaki Sugihara
2009 25 min.

CANADIAN PREMIERE

The only thing that 8-year-old Mina (Maria Kawamura) wants is a mom, but she just has to convince one to marry her single father… that and figure out if a miniature black hole is responsible for her brother’s mysterious disappearance. This zany comedy perfectly captures a long hot summer in the life of a little girl.

Screening Time: Saturday, August 22nd @ 1:45 PM

Peaches! organizer/ producer Atsuko Ohno will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

Official Website: http://www.momomatsuri.com/index.html