Japanese cinema is much more than animation. This is what Japan Foundation wants to show us. The New Delhi-based organisation is bringing the Japanese Film Festival for the first time to Chennai. The 10-day festival, in partnership with PVR Cinemas, will showcase 25 Japanese movies with English subtitles, for free, at VR Chennai.
The movies curated are recent; most of them have been released this year, and offer a sense of contemporary Japanese film culture. You can look forward to watching mega hits such as Kingdom , an action adventure film directed by Shinsuke Sato, which tells the story of how a young boy rose to the ranks of a general in ancient China. In a lighter vein is Bento Harassment , directed by Renpei Tsukamoto. The family comedy pokes fun at intergenerational strife, all centred around the Japanese trope of mothers making bento lunchboxes for their children.
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The JFF also brought director Makoto Shinkai to the recently-concluded Delhi edition. The animator is behind popular fantasy movies such as
Being part of the team that helped curate the movies, Miyamoto says, “We noticed that there was a lot of enthusiasm in India for Japanese animation movies. We want that to be the entry point to show other aspects of Japanese film culture.”
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