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CAMBRIDGE JAPAN FILM DAY 16 NOV 2024
Join us for an afternoon with UCHIDA Kenji’s ‘Key of Life’ and OGIGAMI Naoko’s ‘Kamome Diner’. Screenings will be held in the Frankopan Hall, Jesus College. Tickets below.
KAMOME DINER 2005, 102 mins (PG) Japan
Directed by: OGIGAMI Naoko
Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday 16 November @ 2.30pm
A small Japanese eating house opens on a street corner in Helsinki by the name of Kamome Diner (ruokala lokki). Run by Sachie (Satomi Kobayashi), the menus she recommends are “soul foods” that carry the Japanese spirit and “onigiri” (rice balls). Sachie hopes the diner becomes a place where neighbours could easily drop by, enjoy the simple yet tasty food and spend time together.
KEY OF LIFE 2012, 128 mins (12A) Japan
Directed by: UCHIDA Kenji
Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday 16 November @ 5pm
Unemployed 35-year-old Sakurai aspires to become an actor but has failed miserably. He decides to end it all by killing himself, but first, he goes to cleanse himself at a public bathhouse. While at the bathhouse, he meets the prosperous Kondo, which changes everything. On a whim, Sakurai switches locker keys, steals the man’s belongings and thus sets in motion a rather different set of events.
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