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Free Admission WELLINGTON 23 - 25 OCT In Japanese with English Subtitles Fri 23 Oct 6:30pm Iwane: Sword of Serenity WELLINGTON Sat 24 Oct 12:00pm Almost a Miracle Roxy Cinema (5 Park Rd, Miramar, Wellington) 2:30pm Samurai Cat Booking required at roxycinema.co.nz *Online booking fee applies 5:00pm Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days Sun 25 Oct 12:00pm A Beautiful Star [General Enquiries] Embassy of Japan 2:30pm A Banana? At This Time of Night? Phone : 04 472 7807 Email: [email protected] www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp 2020 CHRISTCHURCH 1 - 4 NOV

Sun 1 Nov 2:30pm The Wonderland CHRISTCHURCH 5:00pm Bento Harassment Christchurch Art Gallery (Montreal Street, Christchurch) christchurchartgallery.org.nz Wellington Mon 2 Nov 6:00pm The Takatsu River No booking required 23-25 OCT Christchurch Tue 3 Nov 6:00pm Mentai-piriri [General Enquiries] 1-4 NOV Wed 4 Nov 6:00pm Finding Calico Consular Office of Japan New Plymouth Phone : 03 366 5680 Email: [email protected] 21-22 NOV www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp/consular_office NEW PLYMOUTH 21 - 22 NOV Auckland 27-29 NOV Sat 21 Nov 12:30pm Iwane: Sword of Serenity NEW PLYMOUTH Dunedin 12-13 DEC 3:00pm Almost a Miracle Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (42 Queen St, New Plymouth) govettbrewster.com 5:30pm Samurai Cat No booking required

Sun 22 Nov 10:00pm Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days [General Enquiries] 12:30pm A Beautiful Star Embassy of Japan Phone : 04 472 7807 Email: [email protected] 3:00pm A Banana? At This Time of Night? www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp

AUCKLAND 27 - 29 NOV AUCKLAND Fri 27 Nov 6:00pm A Banana? At This Time of Night? Academy Cinemas (44 Lorne Street, Auckland) Sat 28 Nov 1:00pm Almost a Miracle Booking required at academycinemas.co.nz *Online booking fee applies 3:30pm A Beautiful Star *Booking open from Thursday 29th October

6:00pm Iwane: Sword of Serenity [General Enquiries] Sun 29 Nov 1:00pm Stopmotion Animation Films by Consulate-General of Japan in Auckland Takeshi Yashiro Phone : 09 303 4106 Email: [email protected] Presented by www.auckland.nz.emb-japan.go.jp 3:30pm Not Quite Dead Yet DUNEDIN DUNEDIN 12 - 13 DEC Dunedin Public Art Gallery (30 Octagon, Dunedin) Venue Partners Sat 12 Dec 12:30pm Iwane: Sword of Serenity dunedin.art.museum 3:00pm Almost a Miracle No booking required

5:30pm Samurai Cat [General Enquiries] Embassy of Japan Sun 13 Dec 10:00pm Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days Phone : 04 472 7807 Email: [email protected]

12:30pm A Beautiful Star www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp 3:00pm A Banana? At This Time of Night? Drama Drama Comedy W WLG N NPL C CHC A AKL D DUD Pecoross’ Mother and Her Days W N D A Banana? At This Time of Night? W N A D ペコロスの⺟に会いに⾏く こんな夜更けにバナナかよ 愛しき実話 Director: Tetsu Maeda Samurai Director: Azuma Morisaki Cast: Harue Akagi, Ryo Iwamatsu Cast: , Haruma Miura Iwane: Sword of Serenity W N A D Year: 2018 Duration: 120min 居眠り磐根 Year: 2013 Duration: 113min Afflicted by muscular dystrophy, Yasuaki Director: Katsuhide Motoki An adaptation of Yuichi Okano’s essay Shikano doesn’t let that slow him down. manga, this film is a compelling drama A charming and eternally positive man, Cast: Tori Matsuzaka about dementia and bonds with the past. © 2018 “A Banana? At This Time of Night?” Film Partners he is determined to live an independent Year: 2019 Duration: 121min life and fulfil his dreams with the ©"Pecoross' Mother and Her Days" Production Committee help of volunteers. The film adaptation of Saeki Yasuhide's Mentai-piriri C samurai period novel series which has The Takatsu River C めんたいぴりり surpassed 20 million copies printed. ⾼津川 Director: Kan Eguchi

© 2019 "Iwane: Sword of Serenity" Film Partners Director: Yoshinari Nishikiori

Samurai Cat Cast: Hanamaru Hakata W N D Cast: Masahiro Komoto, Naho Toda 猫侍 Year: 2018 Duration: 115min Year: 2019 Duration: 113min Director: Takeshi Watanabe Based on a true story about a man who Yoshitaka Yamaguchi This drama portrays various people living created Fukuoka's famous local food, this film depicts people who struggle to Cast: Kazuki Kitamura in an area burdened by decreasing popu- lation as they carry on the tradition of survive the economic transition and ©2019 "Mentai-piriri" Production Committee Year: 2014 Duration: 100min "Kagura" Shinto music and dance which growth in the post-war period. ©2019 THE TAKATSU RIVER MOVIE PARTNERS is said to be the roots of Kabuki. Humorous depiction of a masterless Finding Calico samurai at the end of the Edo Period C 先⽣と迷い猫 whose heart is melted by an adorable Drama Romance ©2014 NEKO SAMURAI PRODUCTION COMMITTE white cat. Director: Yoshihiro Fukagawa Almost a Miracle W N A D Animation 町⽥君の世界 Cast: Issey Ogata, Shota Sometani

Director: Year: 2015 Duration: 107min The Wonderland C Cast: Taiga Hosoda, Nagisa Sekimizu A drama inspired by the beloved non- バースデー・ワンダーランド fiction book Mie the Stray: A Story of Year: 2019 Duration: 120min Director: Keiichi Hara Community Cats and Shopping Street Revitalization. A new type of main character, who is both © 2015 Finding Calico Film Partners Cast: extremely ordinary and universally lova- Not Quite Dead Yet Year: 2019 Duration: 115min ble. Machida is a big-hearted lad whose A compulsion to help everyone around him ⼀度死んでみた

On the day before her birthday, a girl © Yuki Ando/SHUEISHA (c)2019 “Almost a Miracle” Film often gets him in trouble. Director: Shinji Hamasaki meets a mysterious alchemist who is on

©2018 Sachiko Kashiwaba, KODANSHA/ a mission to save the world. Cast: Suzu Hirose, Ryo Yoshizawa 2019 Birthday Wonderland Committee Drama Sci-fi Year: 2020 Duration: 93min A Beautiful Star W N A D Stopmotion Animation Films by Takeshi Yashiro After Nanase's father takes a drug that A 美しい星 ⼋代健志監督ストップモーションアニメーション短編集 causes temporal death for 2 days. She Director: Daihachi Yoshida Director: Takeshi Yashiro is named the president of her dad's Cast: , Kazuya Kameishi company. She must prevent her father's Year: 2020 Duration: 105min ©2020 Shochiku Co., Ltd. Fuji Television Network, inc. enemies from prematurely cremating Year: 2017 Duration: 127min him before he revives. Award-winning director Takeshi MISHIMA’s unique sci-fi drama turns into Yashiro’s stop motion films rarely Bento Harassment screened outside of Japan. Lineup: an unconventional film in modern times. It C Gon, the Little Fox/ Moon of a Sleepless portrays a family on Earth who come to 今⽇も嫌がらせ弁当 ©TAIYO KIKAKU Co., Ltd./EXPLORERS JAPAN Ltd. believe that they are actually from other All Rights Reserved. Night/Norman the Snowman series. planets all of a sudden. A comical but Director: Renpei Tsukamoto ©"A Beautiful Star"Film Partners bittersweet story of an extraterrestrial family. Cast: Ryoko Shinohara PLEASE NOTE Year: 2019 Duration: 106min ■ We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule. ■ At the time of printing the films have not been rated. Ultimately a story of unconditional mater- © 2019 "BENTO HARASSMENT" Film Partners nal love, Bento Harassment is a tale ■ Any necessary changes and classification will be advised on the that reminds us not to give up on our websites of Embassy of Japan, Consulate-General of Japan in loved ones even when life is not always Auckland and Consular Office of Japan in Christchurch.