Japanese film week promises exciting fare

Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” will be among eight films to be screened at a Japan film week to be held in Ho Chi Minh City and Nha Trang this month.

The movie, which has become a cult classic since being released in 1951, is about the rape of a woman (Machiko Kyo) and the murder of a man (Masayuki Mori), possibly by a bandit (Toshiro Mifune).

At Kyoto's crumbling Rashomon gate, several people shelter from a storm and discuss the crime which has shocked the region.

It won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1951 and the won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1952.

The other films to be screened are “Happy Flight”, “Tony Takitani”, “Kamikaze Girls”, “Sansho the Bailiff”, the cartoon “5 Centimeters Per Second”, “Yunagi City, Sakura Country” and “Memories of Tomorrow”.

The program is sponsored by the Japanese consulate in HCMC and the Japan Foundation.

“It will provide an opportunity for people to further understand the Japanese land, people, culture and society, from traditional to modern, through films,” the consulate said in a release.

The films will be shown from October 8 to 14 at BHD Star Cinema in HCMC’s district 10 and from 22nd to 24th at Hoang Hoa Tham cinema in Nha Trang.

Free tickets are available at the consulate in Nguyen Hue Street, HCMC, and the venue in Nha Trang.

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Hanoi Polish film festival to mark 60 years of ties

Sweet Rush (Polish: Tatarak)

Five films will be screened at a Polish film festival to be held in Hanoi from September 19 to 23 to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Poland.

Among them will be “Sweet Rush” (Polish: Tatarak), directed by the world-renowned auteur Andrzej Wajda, which chronicles the love affair between the neglected wife of a doctor whose two sons died in World War II and a man half her age.

The film won the Alfred-Bauer prize for innovation at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival last year.

The other films to be screened are “How to live,” “Mr Kuka’s advice,” “God’s little village,” and “Time to die.”

Poland has chosen these films to introduce to Vietnamese audiences its people and culture, Lai Van Sinh, head of the Cinematography Department, said.

Polish cinema is considered among the best in Europe and the world, he added.

The films will be screened at the National Cinema Centre where the films’ directors, actors, and producers will hold exchanges with audiences.

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Hanoi Polish film festival to mark 60 years of ties

Sweet Rush (Polish: Tatarak)

Five films will be screened at a Polish film festival to be held in Hanoi from September 19 to 23 to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Poland.

Among them will be “Sweet Rush” (Polish: Tatarak), directed by the world-renowned auteur Andrzej Wajda, which chronicles the love affair between the neglected wife of a doctor whose two sons died in World War II and a man half her age.

The film won the Alfred-Bauer prize for innovation at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival last year.

The other films to be screened are “How to live,” “Mr Kuka’s advice,” “God’s little village,” and “Time to die.”

Poland has chosen these films to introduce to Vietnamese audiences its people and culture, Lai Van Sinh, head of the Cinematography Department, said.

Polish cinema is considered among the best in Europe and the world, he added.

The films will be screened at the National Cinema Centre where the films’ directors, actors, and producers will hold exchanges with audiences.

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60 Years of German Cinema continues in Hanoi

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is one of the seven films to be screened at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi in September

Seven German films from the 1990s will be screened in Hanoi from September 6 to 15 as part of a continuing program on 60 years of filmmaking in that country since World War II.

The program, 60 Years of German Cinema, began in January and has been showing films every two months representing each decade since the 1950’s.

The 1990’s saw the reunification of East and West Germany with all its attendant problems.

The seven films to be screened -- at the Goethe Institute, also the organizer of the event -- are “German, German,” “The Blackest Heart,” and “The Nasty Girl” (all 1990), “Ostkreuz” (1991), “After Five in the Forest Primeval” (1995), “Beyond Silence” (1996), and “Run Lola Run” (1998).

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is a cult film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus of Passau, Bavaria.

In 1990 it won New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1991 it was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards as Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1992 it won the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in English.

The free screenings will be at 7: 30 pm every day and passes are available at the institute, 56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

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60 Years of German Cinema continues in Hanoi

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is one of the seven films to be screened at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi in September

Seven German films from the 1990s will be screened in Hanoi from September 6 to 15 as part of a continuing program on 60 years of filmmaking in that country since World War II.

The program, 60 Years of German Cinema, began in January and has been showing films every two months representing each decade since the 1950’s.

The 1990’s saw the reunification of East and West Germany with all its attendant problems.

The seven films to be screened -- at the Goethe Institute, also the organizer of the event -- are “German, German,” “The Blackest Heart,” and “The Nasty Girl” (all 1990), “Ostkreuz” (1991), “After Five in the Forest Primeval” (1995), “Beyond Silence” (1996), and “Run Lola Run” (1998).

The Nasty Girl (German: Das schreckliche Mädchen) is a cult film based on the true story of Anna Rosmus of Passau, Bavaria.

In 1990 it won New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1991 it was nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe Awards as Best Foreign Language Film.

In 1992 it won the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in English.

The free screenings will be at 7: 30 pm every day and passes are available at the institute, 56 – 58 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

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