PLAYING IN SEPTEMBER AT THE FUKUOKA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVIE HALL CINÉ- LÀ

Aug. 3 0 Film Festival Pre- Festival Event

The Pre-Festival Event of the Focus on Asia International Film

Festival Fukuoka 2014 will show the Indian film,

“Kahaani” (2012) with English subtitles at the Fukuoka City

Public Library. Admission is free but you must apply.

Sept.3-15 & Sept.23-27 Focus on Asia Archives

A selection of Asian films previously exhibited at the Focus on

Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka will be shown. Most but not all titles are English subtitled.

Sept.17-21 Sharaku and Other Daring Ukiyo-e Artists o n Fi l m

The Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka 2014

Japanese Film Selection Special Feature will be presented at the Fukuoka City Public Library. Not all titles are English subtitled. Aug. 30: Fi l m Festival Pre-Festival Event The Indian film “Kahaani” (2012) will be shown with English subtitles as a pre-festival event of the Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka 2014. Admission is free but you must apply. Details soon available through the Home Page of the Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka.

KAHAANI Director: Sujoy Ghosh Cast: Vidya Balan, Parambrata.Chattopadhyay / 2012 / 35mm / Color / 123 min. English subtitles. STORY: 2 years after a poison gas terrorist attack in Kolkata, a pregnant woman arrives in the city to find her husband who disappeared a month ago while on a business trip… Sept.3-15 & Sept.23-27: Focus on Asia Archives Films previously exhibited at the Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka will be shown during Sept. 3-15 and Sept. 23-27. Not all are English subtitled so please check individual titles.

ADMISSION: Adults ¥500 University/College/High School ¥400 Jr. High /Elementary School ¥300 ID required

RORO MENDUT Director: Ami Priyono Cast: Meriam Bellina, W.D. Mochtar, / 1982 / 35mm / Color / 107 min. / Indonesia / No English subtitles. STORY: A small nation is subjugated by a military general who sets eyes on the Queen, under captivity. However, she will not give in... KUEI-MEI, A WOMAN Director: Chang Yi Cast: Yang Huey-Sian, Li Li-Chun / 1985 / 35mm / Color / 121 min. / Taiwan / English subtitles. STORY: The life story of a hard working woman depicted alongside modern Taiwanese history. She marries a man with children and has twins of her own. Life is so hard she goes to to work and returns to Taiwan to open a restaurant… THE RED LOTUS Director: Som-ok Southiphone Cast: Vongdeuane Phongsavan, Somchit Vongsam-ang / 1988 / 35mm / BW / 84 min. / Laos / English subtitles. STORY: A man works as a government spy in a village. His information gets the father of his daughter-in-law’s lover arrested. Her lover ends up joining the National Liberation Front and she is urged to marry a rich man… DOWN STREAM Director: Kyi Doe Tan Cast: Kyaw Hein, Khin Than Nu / 1989/ 35mm / Color / 115 min. / Myanmar / English subtitles. STORY: A man is widowed and must care for his son and daughter. He gets promoted at work and is transferred. Near his new home, he meets a widow and the two become close, but he has second thoughts about remarrying because of his children…

UNDER THE BRIDGE Director: H.D. Premaratne Cast: Sanath Gunathilake, Geetha Kumarasinghe / 1990/ 35mm / Color / 141 min. / Sri Lanka / English subtitles. STORY: A woman with a husband in jail lives with her son in the slums. Being attractive, a prison guard and a leader of a gang tries to dominate her… MERCEDES MON AMOUR Director: Bay Okan Cast: Ilyas Salman, Valerié Lemoine, / 1993 / 35mm / Color / 98 min. / Turkey / English subtitles. STORY: A migrant Turkish worker in Germany saves enough money to buy his long cherished Mercedes Benz. He treats the car with extreme care but many comical incidents happen during his trip back home on the Mercedes. C’EST LA VIE , MON CHÉRI Director: Derek Yee Tung Sing Cast: Anita Yuen, Lau Ching Wan / 1993 / 35mm / Color / 99 min. / Hong Kong / English subtitles. STORY: Kit, a saxophone player, moves into a cheap apartment complex. Downstairs, he meets Min who lives with a Canton Opera Troupe. Min tries to cheer Kit up and eventually they fall in love but tragedy strikes… OILMAKER’S FAMILY Director: Xie Fei Cast: Siqingaowa, Lei Ke-Sheng / 1993 / 35mm / Color / 105 min. / China / English subtitles. STORY: A married woman in charge of her sesame oil factory has a son who is retarded. She then arranges for a fisherman’s daughter to marry him as compensation for her parents’ debt. The daughter doesn’t get along and soon leaves the family… RAGE Director: Chito Roño Cast: Richard Gomez, Maricel Soriano / 1995 / 35mm / Color / 101 min. / Philippines / English subtitles. STORY: A girl about to be married is raped. In a continuing state of shock, she comes to reject her husband even after marriage. Mad, her husband gets violent. She finally discovers her rapist and finds out he is a policeman… THREE-OH-ONE, THREE-OH-TWO Director: Park Chul-Soo Cast: Pang Eun Jin, Hwang Shin-Hye / 1995 / 35mm / Color / 99 min. / Korea / English subtitles. STORY: Yoon-hui, a writer, lives in apartment 302. Song-hui, a divorcee, moves into 301. After introductions, Yoon-hui starts to bring food to Song-hui, regularly. Song-hui gets sick whenever she sees Yoon-hui’s food but accepts, to be polite, only to throw the food away. One day, Yoon-hui witnesses Song-hui throwing her food away and demands an answer… BIRTH OF A BUTTERFLY Director: Mojitaba Raie Cast: Rahim Jahani, Mahmud Nazar-Alian / 1998 / 35mm / Color / 100 min. / Iran / English subtitles. STORY: An omnibus film made up of three stories about a youth not getting along with his father-in-law, a youth who goes on a pilgrimage where he meets a strange man and a young teacher who gets assigned to a school in the countryside. THE RAW MANGO Director: Amol Palekar Cast: Shilpa Navalkar, Yogita Deshmukh / 1999 / 35mm / Color / 97 min. / India / English subtitles. STORY: A young girl loses both her parents comes to live with her aunt. The girl makes friends in school but has trouble with her aunt’s husband who has a mistress on the side. Eventually tragedy strikes her aunt…

LIFE Director: Jano Rosebiani Cast: Kurdo Galali, Pisheng Berzinci / 2002 / 35mm / Color 99 min. /Iraq / English subtitles. STORY: Diyari comes to a Kurdish town to establish an orphanage. There he meets a 10 year-old girl with a scar on her face who lost both her parents. The film addresses the consequences of chemical weapons used against the Kurdish people at the close of the Iran-Iraqi War. BEYOND THE SEVEN SEAS Director: Saeed Anjum, Espen Thorstenon Cast: Sajid Hussein, Zafar Malik / 1991 / 35mm / Color / 88 min. / Pakistan-Norway / English subtitles STORY: A Pakistani father is transferred to Norway. Soon, the whole family moves to Norway and the son enrolls in his new school. He is active, going to parties but feels prejudice from his surrounding... THE ALIENATION Director: Morshedul Islam Cast: Farhad, Anol / 2004 / 35mm / Color / 91 min. / Bangladesh / English subtitles STORY: Putul, an 11 year-old boy from a well-to-do family, escapes from home one day and meets a youth who lives as a street child in a park. Yearning for the free life, Putul goes on an adventure with Antul. Sept.17-21 : Sharaku and Other Daring Ukiyo-e Artists on Fi l m Focus on Asia International Film Festival Fukuoka 2014 Japanese Film Selection Special Feature “Sharaku and Other Daring Ukiyo-e Artists on Film” will be shown at the Fukuoka City Public Library. Not all English subtitled.

ADMISSION: At the door (1 ticket)¥1300 Advance Ti c k e t ( 1 ticket) ¥1100 At the door (5 tickets) ¥5500 Advanced Ticket (5 tickets) ¥4400 Free Pass for all shows: At the door ¥13000 Advanced purchase ¥11000 Student discount-Foreign Students&Jr. High School through College ¥500 (1 ticket) Tickets available at: Ticket Pia (P Code465-686) Lawson Ti c k e t (L Code87681 Day of Show 87682) Info Tel: 080-8360-5720 from Aug.19-Sept21 10:00-17:00 Weekdays only. Service expands to weekdays, weekends and holidays starting September.

UTAMARO AND HIS FIVE WOMEN Director: Cast: Minosuke Bando, Koutaro Bando, / 1946 / 35mm / BW / 95 min. / French subtitles STORY: Maestro film director Kenji Mizoguchi presents a story on five women who are involved one way or another with Utamaro, the famous Ukiyoe painter. Come experience the world of Ukiyoe during Japan’s Edo Era. PORTRAIT OF HELL Director: Shiro Toyoda Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura, , Yoko Naito / 1969 / 35mm / Color / 95 min. / No subtitles STORY: In feudal Japan, a man of power forces the daughter of a genius painter to serve in his court. The daughter may not return home until his father completes a drawing on “hell”, which is acceptable to the man of power...

THE SCANDALOOUS ADVENTURES OF BURAIKAN Director: Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Tetsuro Tanba/ 1970 / 35mm / Color / 103 min. / No subtitles STORY: In feudal Japan, a monk and a womanizing actor get word that the daughter of rich merchant is being held at the residence of a man of power, who wishes to make her his mistress. The two try and save her for a reward. UTAMARO’S WORLD Director: Akio Jissoji Cast: Shin Kishida, Mikio Narita, Mikijiro Hira / 1977 / 35mm / Color / 140 min. / No subtitles STORY: Utamaro, the Ukiyoe artist, finds that he can draw landscape, flowers and birds but not beautiful women. So he goes to extremes in search of his pursuit of beauty and eroticism in women…Admission of 15 years-old and under not allowed. EDO PORN Director: Cast: , , Yuko Tanaka / 1981 35mm / Color / 119 min. / No subtitles STORY: A film, which energetically illustrates the unparalleled life of Hokusai, the artist, who became obsessed with the enchantment of women. YUMEJI Director: Cast: , Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki / 1991 / 35mm / Color / English subtitles STORY: A non-biographical sketch of Yumeji, a poet and painter of the “Taisho Roman” era famous for his lyrical portraits of exotic women. SHARAKU Director: Masahiro Shinoda Cast: , Franky Sakai, Riona Hazuki / 1995 / 35mm / Color / 138 min. / English subtitles STORY: A film, which addresses Sharaku, the Ukiyoe artist who suddenly disappeared during the Edo era after drawing about 140 pieces of color woodblock prints. Directed by maestro film director Masahiro Shinoda.

SEPT 17: 13:30-14:30 SPECIAL DISCUSSION A special discussion between film director Masahiro Shinoda and Focus on Asia International Film Festival Director Yasuhiro Hariki will be presented as a commemorative event of the film festival. Admission to the discussion is free but the audience to the 11:00 showing of “Sharaku” will have seating preference. If you want a good seat, please purchase a ticket for “Sharaku”.

THE LIBRARY AND THE THEATER WILL BE CLOSED ON : SEPTEMBER 1,2,8, 16, 22, 29 , 30 THE LIBRARY WILL BE OPEN BUT THE THEATER CLOSED ON SEPTEMBER 9

TITLE ABBREVIATIONS: The following titles will be abbreviated due to its title length: “Utamaro and His Five Women” will be abbreviated as “Utamaro” “The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan” will be abbreviated as “Scandalous Adventures” “Three-Oh-One, Three-Oh-Two” will be abbreviated as “301/302

SUBTITLES: E: English subtitles F: French subtitles

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

AUGUST 30 Sat Film Festival Pre-Festival Event: Showing of the Indian film “Kahaani”. 31 Sun Private Screening SEPTEMBER 3 Wed 14:00 Roro Medut 4 Thu 11:00 Kuei-Mei, A Woman/E 14:00 Mercedes, Mon Amour/E 5 Fri 11:00 The Red Lotus/E 14:00 Down Stream/E 6 Sat 11:00 Beyond the Seven Seas 14:00 Under the Bridge 7 Sun 11:00 C’est la Vie, Mon Chéri/E 14:00 Oilmaker’s Family/E 10 Wed 14:00 Rage/E 11 Thu 11:00 Beyond the Seven Seas/E 14:00 C’est la Vie, Mon Chéri/E 12 Fri 11:00 Oilmaker’s Family /E 14:00 Under the Bridge/E 13 Sat 11:00 The Red Lotus/E 14:00 Roro Medut 14 Sun 11:00 Mercedes, Mon Amour/E 14:00 Kuei-Mei, A Woman/E 15 Mon 11:00 Down Stream/E 14:00 Rage/E 17 Wed 11:00 Sharaku/E 13:30 Special Discussion 15:30 Scandalous Adventures 18 Thu 11:00 Utamaro/F 13:30 Portrait of Hell 16:00 Edo Porn 19 Fri 11:00 Yumeji/E 14:00 Sharaku/E 17:00 Utamaro’s World 20 Sat 11:00 Portrait of Hell 13:30 Utamaro/F 16:00 Edo Porn 21 Sun 11:00 Scandalous Adventures 13:30 Yumeji/E 16:10 Utamaro’s World 23 Tue 11:00 Birth of a Butterfly/E 14:00 301/302/E 24 Wed 11:00 The Raw Mango/E 14:00 Life/E 25 Thu 11:00 The Alienation/E 14:00 Birth of a Butterfly/E 26 Fri 11:00 301/302/E 14:00 The Raw Mango/E 27 Sat 11:00 Life/E 14:00 The Alienation/E 28 Sun Private Screening