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Bracknell Film Society Selection
JUNE 2009
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TOKYO SONATA |
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To book a ticket for forthcoming screenings please contact the SHP Box Office on 01344 484123 or click the logo below to book via the SHP website.
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Monday 8 - Tuesday 9 June 7.45pm Rating
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Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2008, 120 minutes, in Japanese with subtitles.
Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Yu Koyanagi, Kai Inowakirik.
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46-year-old Japanese businessman loses his job when his department is
outsourced to China. With his days revolving around job centres and soup
kitchens, he becomes preoccupied by his shame and the threat of exposure.
An intelligent drama and allegory of contemporary Japanese anxieties.
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"An intelligent, unobtrusive pleasure" GUARDIAN
Shown at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the 'Masters Programme'.
About Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied sociology at Rikkyo
University. He studied the art of filmmaking under Kazuhiko Hasegawa and Shinji
Somai. He made his directorial feature debut in 1983 with Kandagawa Wars, and
won a Sundance Institute Scholarship in 1992 for his original screenplay Charisma.
Kurosawa was the featured director in the Festival's Spotlight programme in
1999. His films include The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (85), Eyes of
the Spider (97), Serpent's Path (97), Cure (98), License to Live (99), Barren
Illusion (99), Charisma (99), Séance (00), Pulse (01), Bright Future
(03), Doppelganger (03), Loft (05), Retribution (06) and Tokyo Sonata (08).
