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Music scores over maths From “Swing Girls”
The Consulate-General of Japan at Chennai and the Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, in commemoration of the Indo-Japan Film Festival Year, are organising a Japan Film Festival at the South Indian Film Chamber Theatre, 606, Anna Salai, on August 12,
13 and 14.
The festival will open with “Swing Girls” on August 12, 6.45 p.m. following the inauguration at 6.15 p.m. by Kazuo Minagawa, Consul-General, Consulate-General of Japan at Chennai.
A group of school girls in northern Japan are stuck in class where they find nothing interesting. One girl Tomoko encourages her classmate to deliver lunches for the school brass band cheering for their school baseball team, thereby getting out of the class for a day. Tomoko and her friends realise helping Takuo’s team win the game could get an opportunity for them to skip the math class all summer. Takuo not having enough members to form a brass band decides to make the girls into a big band. Tomoko buys a saxophone and starts to learn. Soon the other girls get involved. Thus the Swing Girls are born.
On August 13, 6 p.m., watch “Doraemon”, an animation film. One day, Soneo shows off a piece of dinosaur fossil to friends. Nobita, who feels jealous, promises friends that he would excavate fossils of a whole dinosaur. He happens to find a fossilised egg of a dinosaur. The egg hatches and he begins raising the dinosaur. As it grows too big, the town slips into turmoil.
It will be followed by “First Love” at 8 p.m. Satoka Aida, a 17-year-old student, comes to realise that her mother’s hospitalisation for cancer disturbs the harmony at home. One day, she come across an unsent love letter written by her mother long ago to her first love. She sets out to fulfil her mother’s long lost wish of meeting her first love under the ‘Cherry Tree of Wishes’ in her hometown.
“Ghost Pub” and “My Sons” will be screened on August 14 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. respectively. In “Ghost Pub”, Sotaro runs a small pub. A loving man, he promises his wife Shizuko on her deathbed he will never marry again. But under pressure from his brother, he agrees to marry Satoko. In the meantime, Shizuko returns as a ghost and haunts the couple.
“My Sons” revolves around a father and a son. Tetsuo is a young man living alone in Tokyo. One day, his father calls him to hurry home for his mother’s first death anniversary. Tetsuo returns to Tokyo and lands a job of delivering steel rods. He bumps into a pretty girl while delivering the rods at a factory. He asks her name, but she doesn’t answer…
For details call 98401 51956.
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