Jishu Eiga Room

The Shinsedai Cinema Festival’s Jishu Eiga Room gives visitors a chance to see some of the best in off-center and experimental Japanese indie films. Throughout July 24th and July 25th the following films will be playing continuously starting at 12:00PM so you can sample a little or a lot of work that pushes the boundaries of film.

Access to the Jishu Eiga Room is FREE for Deluxe and 5-Film Pass holders (entry into the Jishu Eiga Room does not use up one of the five films on the 5-Film Pass), while individual entry for non-pass holders costs only $4.00.

Saturday, July 24th

Dome Animation

動夢 アニメーション *Director: various *Producer: Image Forum * 2009 *55 min.

Tokyo’s Image Forum is the most respected producer of experimental film and animation in Japan. DOME Animation collects 15 short animated films by 15 of Image Forum’s most promising young animators.

Screening times: 12:00, 1:15, 3:40, 5:30, 7:20

Different Cities

ディファレント シティーズ *Director: Kazuhiro Goshima *Writer: Kazuhiro Goshima *Cinematography: Masaru Fuchigami, Shinji Yoshida, Kazuhiro Goshima

You know the city you live in pretty well. At least that’s what you think. In Kazuhiro Goshima’s 2006 experimental film Different Cities a group of people quickly discover that they’ve lost their way in the city they call home.

Screening times: 12:55, 2:45, 4:35, 6:25, 8:15

Sunday, July 25th

Oh! Otsuka Drugstore

はい！もしもし、大塚薬局ですが *Director: Yu Katsumata *Writer: Yu Katsumata *Cinematography: Takashi Sakuma *2009 *48 min.

An off kilter comedy about a curmudgeonly woman who runs a drugstore and the young high school girl she takes under her wing. Can she help her young friend find true love?

Screening times: 12:00, 2:21, 4:42, 7:03

Yuki Kawamura Trilogy

Spark, Angel Robe & Grandmother *Director: Yuki Kawamura *Writer: Yuki Kawamura *Cinematography: Yuki Kawamura & Jean-Philippe Polo *2008-2009 *93 min.

Three films, Spark, Angel Robe, and Grandmother, by experimental filmmaker and video artist Yuki Kawamura combine Ozu-esque stories of family and the impermanence of life with cutting edge digital filmmaking.

Screening times: 12:48, 3:09, 5:30, 7:51

* PLEASE NOTE: As all films screening in the Jishu Eiga Room will be playing on a loop all screening times are approximate.