Japan Foundation Touring Festival 2011
Sawako Decides Sawako Decides
Sawako Decides and One Million Yen Girl
The Bird People In China (Country: Japan; Year: 1998; Director: Takashi Miike; Writer: Masa Nakamura, Makoto Shiina; Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Michiko Kase, Yuichi Minato, Tomohiko Okuda, Manzô Shinra, Li Li Wang)
A Tokyo workaholic stumbles on a Chinese hill tribe.
Cure (Kyua) (Country: Japan; Year: 1997; Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Stars: Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Masato Hagiwara)
A detective investigates a series of murders, trying to work out why, despite each having the same methodology, the perpatrators appear to be different.
Go (Country: Japan; Year: 2001; Director: Isao Yukisada; Writer: Kankuro Kudo, based on the novel by Kazuki Kaneshiro; Stars: Yosuke Kubozuka, Kou Shibasaki, Tsutomu Yamakazi, Shonobu Ootake, Taro Yamamoto, Takahito Hosoyama, Mitsuri Murata, Kaynam Myung, Ren Ohsugi, Sensie Shiomi)
Korean youth in Japan fights against prejudice.
Josee, The Tiger And The Fish (Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Isshin Inudô; Writer: Seiko Tanabe, Aya Watanabe; Stars: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Juri Ueno, Hirofumi Arai, YosiYosi Arakawa, Noriko Eguchi, Daigo Fujisawa, Kazuhiro Fujiwara, Itsuji Itao, Tai Kageyama, Anne Mari, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Koji Ookura, Eiko Shinya, Hiroyuki Tanaka)
A student falls for a disabled girl.
Linda Linda Linda (Country: Japan; Year: 2005; Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Kôsuke Mukai, Wakako Miyashita, Nobuhiro Yamashita; Stars: Bae Doona, Yu Kashii, Aki Maeda, Shiori Sekine, Tayako Mimura), Official Site
In the days before the school's culture festival, a girl's music group is facing a dilemma.
Go Go
Go and Linda Linda Linda
One Million Yen Girl (Country: Japan; Year: 2008; Director: Yuki Tanada; Writer: Yuki Tanada; Stars: Yû Aoi, Mirai Moriyama, Pierre Taki, Terunosuke Takezai, Ryûsei Saitô, Sumie Sasaki, Noriko Eguchi, Kami Hiraiwa, Keisuke Horibe, Tarô Ishida, Midoriko Kimura, Kôta Mizumori, Ayumu Saitô, Takashi Sasano, Kyûsaku Shimada)
A girl uses a target of earning a million yen to dictate when she moves from place to place.
Sawako Decides (Kawa No Soko Kara Konnichi Wa) (Country: Japan; Year: 2009; Director: Yuya Ishii; Writer: Yuya Ishii; Stars: Hikari Mitsushima, Masashi Endo, Kira Aihara, Kotaro Shiga, Ryo Iwamatsu)
A young woman struggles to save her family's ailing clam-packing business.
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