Between July 12th through July 15th The 4th annual Shinsedai Cinema
Festival will make Toronto’s historic Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Avenue)
home; and movie audiences will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the
best of Japanese independent film. Plus there will be special guests from Japan
and more than a few surprises on and off screen. Join us this summer to find out
why The Toronto Star calls The Shinsedai Cinema Festival “one of the city’s
youngest and most original movie events.” Tickets and passes go on sale June
21st at select retailers and through the festival website at www.shinsedai.ca/tickets.
Highlights include:
Opening Night Film: Yu Irie's rock & roll dramedy Ringing in Their
Ears: The real-life story of Shinsei Kamattechan's move from indie stardom to
major label commodity is interwoven with the fictional lives of some of their
most unusual fans. ** Director Yu Irie will be in
attendance!
Tohoku Relief Screening: In cooperation with Japan's National Film
Center and the Japan Visual Media Translation Academy, we are proud to present
Kiyohiko Ushihara's chilling 1938 horror film The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious
Shamisen. All box office proceeds will go to our chosen Tohoku relief
organization, the Niji-Iro 'Rainbow' Cinema Support Project.
Pink
Films: An event that will have audiences talking… Battle Girls & Bondage: A
Pink Film Double Bill will present the first theatrical screening of Japanese
pink films (softcore erotic productions) in conjunction with Toronto’s veteran
fetish clothier NorthBound Leather and L.A.-based distributor Pink Eiga. Live
performance will mix with our presentation of Mototsugu Watanabe’s comedy/
action adventure Sexy Battle Girls and Osamu Sato’s gritty New Tokyo Decadence:
The Slave.
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Comedy: We are proud to present Sakichi Sato's off-the-wall comedy Zero Man vs.
the Half Virgin. A low level policeman wakes up one day with total amnesia and
the ability to see numbers on peoples' foreheads. From the screenwriter of Ichi
the Killer and Gozu, and the director of Tokyo Zombie. **Director Sakichi Sato
will be in attendance!
Neo-noir Drama: The cinematic lone gunmen genre is updated by director
Daisuke Miyazaki with his feature directorial debut End of the Night. A young
man is raised by his adoptive father to be a lethal hitman, but what happens
when this young killer is faced the female survivor of one of his jobs and the
emotions she ignites in him? **Director Daisuke Miyazaki will be in
attendance!
Yubari Fanta Special: We are very proud to have worked in conjunction
with Hokkaido's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival to bring you From
the Great White North: Yubari Fanta Special. A trio of short films, from quirky
martial arts to a pro-wrestling documentary, that have launched in Yubari now
make their way to Toronto! ** Mrs. Akko and Her Husband director Kotaro Terauchi
will be in attendance!
Closing Night Film: Masafumi Yamada's darkly funny and surreal Tentsuki.
Noboru (Taku Manabe) finds himself running from the yakuza. He ends up hiding
out in a mysterious area of Kyoto not listed on the city maps with a woman who
may be an angel.
For
more information on the 4th annual Shinsedai Cinema Festival visit our website
at www.shinsedai.ca.
