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PRESS RELEASES
For immediate distribution - Tuesday, August 6th, 2002
FOCUS ON JAPANESE CINEMA
FOCUS ON JAPANESE CINEMA
MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL
AUGUST 22 TO SEPTEMBER 2
Montr�al, August 6th, - 2002 � � We are very proud to present a selection of Japanese films for this focus on one of the most promirent national cin�matographie, � Dani�le Cauchard and Serge Losique stated today. Besides, INOCHI will be presented in the Official Competition, the Festival will present the following films in its Focus on Japanese Cinema.
JOGAKUSEI NO TOMO (HIGH-SCHOOL GIRL'S FRIEND) 2001 / Vid�o / Couleur / 104 min / Dir. Tetsuo Shinohara
An elderly retired man who relives his loneliness by cultivating a relationship with his teenage granddaughter finds that he is developing a special attraction to one of her friends.
YURISAI (LILY FESTIVAL) 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 100 min / Dir. Sachi Hamano
When a 75-year �ladies man� moves into their apartment building, a group of elderly women suddenly rediscover what it feels like to be desired. He may be a cad, but they don't really care.
KASEI NO KANON (THE MARS CANON) 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 121 min / Dir. Shiori Kazama
Kinuko, 29, is having an affair with a married man and her friends disapprove. Then she gets involved with another young woman and is torn between the two.
DOG STAR / 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 125 min / Dir. Takahisa Zeze
A faithful guide dog is reincarnated as a young man and gets more than he bargained for when he fulfills his wish to meet the young girl who first raised him.
ORIUME / 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 115 min / Dir. Hisako Matsui
An elderly woman comes to live with her son and daughter-in-law but soon realizes that she is losing control over her mind and body.
MR. ROOKIE / 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 118 min / Dir. Satoshi Isaka
A 32-year-old pitcher is lured back into organized baseball and becomes a �rookie� phenomenon for the Japanese league's perennial cellar dwellers.
GO / Japan - South Korea / 2001 / 35 mm / Couleur / 122 min / Dir. Isao Yukisada
Sugihara, a troubled youth born in Japan to Korean parents, punches his way through high school but finds that communicating with girls requires social skills that he hasn't yet mastered.
PICARESQUE / Japan 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 133 min / Dir. Hidehiro Ito
The life and suicide of Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai, who became the literary voice of the �lost generation� after World War II.
SHIRO INU TO WARUTSU WO (TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE DOG) Japan / 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 99 min / Dir. Takashi Tsukinoki
When an old man loses his wife of forty years, he feels extremely lonely. Then a mysteriously white dog enters his life...
MOHOHAN (MOHOHAN -- COPYCAT KILLER) Japan / 2002 / 35 mm / Couleur / 124 min / Dir. Yoshimitsu Morita
There is a serial murderer on the loose in the city and he is taunting the police and the press with photos and clues. When two bodies with incriminating evidence are found in a car wreck, the police believe they've solved the case, but one young man comes forward to say they're wrong.
KUROSAWA AKIRA KARANO MESSAGE: UTSUKUSHII EIGAWO Japan 2000 / 35 mm / Colour / 123 min
A two-hour interview with a great master of Japanese cinema who explains his passion and ideas about moving pictures.
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Henry Welsh : (514) 495-8176 From August 20 (514) 841-20 80
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