All Days

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Games Arcade

7 p.m. to 12 a.m. Festival Centre 1st floor
Admission free (minimum age for admission: 18 years)

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Postcard

Director: Kaneto SHINDO, Japan 2010, 114 min
7.15 p.m., Festival Centre

About the Pink Sky

Director: Keiichi KOBAYASHI, Japan 2011, 113 min
8 p.m., Festival Centre

Opening Lounge

DJ, Drinks and Visuals!
9 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ

Ringing in Their Ears

Director: Yu IRIE, Japan 20111, 89 min
10.15 p.m., Festival Centre

Zero Man vs. Half Virgin

Director: Sakichi SATO, Japan 2011, 105 min
10.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Games Arcade

2 p.m. to 12 midnight Festival Centre 1st floor
Admission free (minimum age for admission: 18 years)

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Sukiyaki

Director: Tetsu MAEDA, Japan 2011, 108 min
2.30 p.m., Festival Centre

3.11 Tomorrow

Short Film Program
2.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Vocaloid in Japan: Anybody can become a Composer

4 p.m., Jügelhaus Hörsaal B Admission free
Lecture in Japanese with German translation

My Back Page

Director: Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, Japan 2011, 141 min
10.30 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Goodbye (or Not!)

Director: Quanah TAKAHATA, Hirohito TAKINO, Japan 2011, 72 min
5.30 p.m., Festival Centre

JAPAN : SHIFTED – Ausstellung

Vernissage
7 p.m., AusstellungsHalle 1A

Department of Japanese Studies, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main

“Fukushima after one year – views of the disaster”
7 p.m. Jügelhaus Hörsaal B free admission

No Man's Zone

Director: Toshi FUJIWARA, Japan/ Frankreich 2011,104 min
7.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Spaces in Between

Short Film program
8 p.m., Festival Centre

Our Homeland

Director: Yonghi YANG, Japan 2012, 108 min
8 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Nippon Home Cinema

8.00 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ
Limited admission

Subtitling & Transwriting

A Lecture and Workshop by Christian Storms
8 p.m., Festival Centre K2
Admission free

Saya Zamurai

Director: Htoshi MATSUMOTO, Japan 2011, 113 min
10.15 p.m., Festival Centre

Ringing in Their Ears

Director: Yu IRIE, Japan 2011, 89 min
10.30 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Coming Out Story

Director: Kei UMEZAWA, Japan 2011, 60 min.
10.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Film Talks

Atsushi WADA (Regisseur THE GREAT RABBIT)
22:30 p.m., Festival Centre

Friday, May 4, 2012

Games Arcade

12 p.m. to 12 a.m. Festival Centre 1st floor
Admission free (minimum age for admission: 18 years)

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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Director: Takashi MIIKE, Japan/UK, 126 min
12.00 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Die! Directors, Die!

Director: Makoto SHINOZAKI, Japan 2011, 72 min
12:30 p.m., Festival Centre

Department of Japanese Studies, Frankfurt am Main

Popular culture as a strategy for reconstruction in post-Fukushima Japan: The latest from the “Cool Japan!” campaign
2 p.m. Jügelhaus Hörsaal A

Fish on Land

Director: Yusuke ISEYA, Japan 2011, 108 min
2.30 p.m., Festival Centre

It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve – Masao Adachi

Director: Philippe Grandrieux, Japan 2011, 74 min
2.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Summer in Narita

D: Shinsuke OGAWA, Japan 1968, 108 min
4 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

A HONEYMOON IN HELL: MR. AND MRS. OKI’S FABULOUS TRIP

Director: Ryuichi HONDA, Japan 2011, 121 min
5 p.m., Festival Centre

The Sketch of Mujo

Director: Koichi OMIYA, Japan 2011, 75 min
5.15 p.m., Festival Centre

Images of Protest, Images as Protest: Japanese Cinema and Political Activism

8.30 p.m., Festival Centre K2 Admission free Please note the Schedule Change!
Lecture in English

Gewaltopia - Images Of Protest

Friday, May 4, 6 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

Karaoke & Soup Lounge

from 7 p.m. Festival Centre, basement
Admission free

Zen-Kalligraphie

Introduction
8 p.m., Galerie Kunstraum Westend
Attention: the beginning of the introduction changed.

Intimacy aka Intimicies

Director: Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI, Japan 2011, 136 min
7.30 p.m., Festival Centre

The Woodsman and the Rain

Director: Shuichi OKITA, Japan 2011, 129 min
7.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Radio Play Live Reading „The Beast of Fukushima“

8 p.m. Festival Centre Limited Admission

Kihachiro KAWAMOTO’s Quest for the Ultimate Expression of Puppets

6 p.m., Festival Centre K2 Please note the Schedule Change
Admission free

No Man's Zone

Director: Toshi FUJWARA,Japan 2011, 104 min
8 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

MIIKE-Maniacs Anonymous Self-Help Session and Intervention

with Christian Storms und Luk van Haute
8.30 p.m. Jügelhaus Hörsaal B Admission free

The Oppressed Students

D: Shinsuke OGAWA, J 1967, 105 min
8.30 p.m. Kino Im Deutschen Filmmuseum

Monsters Club

Director: Toshiaki TOYODA, Japan 2011, 72 min
10.15 p.m., Festival Centre

Come As You Are

Director: Kouta YOSHIDA, Japan 2011, 102 min
10 p.m., Festival Centre

My Back Page

Director: Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, Japan 2011, 141 min
10.30 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Film Talk: Special The New Generation

Special: The New Generation -Young Filmmaker of the Visions Program present their films
22:30 p.m., Festival Centre

Nippon On Stage

Nippon Live on Stage: Gothika & DJ SiSeN
Conzert with Electro-Live-Act GOTHIKA, afterwords Party with DJ SiSeN
11 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Games Arcade

12 p.m. to 12 a.m. Festival Centre 1st floor
Admission free (minimum age for admission: 18 years)

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Spiele-Workshop

12 p.m., Festival Centre K2
Limited admission

Shiatsu-Workshop

12 p.m., Jügelhaus Hörsaal A
Limited admission

Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below

Director: Makoto SHINKAI, Japan 2011 116 min
12 p.m., Festival Centre

River

Director: Ryuichi HIROKI, Japan 2011, 89 min
12.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Director: Nobukio OBAYASHI, Japan 2011, 160 min
2.30 p.m., Festival Centre

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The Sound of Light / Friends of Jack

The Sound of Light / Friends of Jack
The Sound of Light by Juichiro YAMASAKI, Japan 2011, 89 min
Friends of Jack by Shintaro NAKASHIMA, Japan 2011, 24 min
2.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Bento-Kochkurs

3 p.m., Jügelhaus Hörsaal A
Limited admission

Rakugo – Japanese Storytelling

3.00 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ
Admission free

Tea-Workshop

3.30 p.m., Festival Centre K2
Limited admission

Amateur Riot

D: Yuki NAKAMURA, Japan 2010, 143 min
4 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

Shing Shing Shing

Director: Kohei SANADA, Japan 2011, 135 min
5.15 p.m., Festival Centre

Chibi Maruko Chan

5.30 p.m., Festival Centre K2
Limited admission

Kotoko

Director: Shinya TSUKAMOTO, Japan 2011, 91 min
5.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Benshi-Brilliance!

Ichiro KATAOKA and OTOWAZA present JIROKICHI THE RAT
6 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ

Prehistory of the Partisans

D: Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO  , Japan 1969, 120 min
6 p.m. Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

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Karaoke & Soup Lounge

from 7 p.m. Festival Centre, basement
Admission free

Department of Japanese Studies, Frankfurt am Main

Debating Haruki MURAKAMI - A literary dialogue
With Ursula Gräfe and Prof. Dr. Lisette Gebhardt
7.00 p.m., Jügelhaus Hörsaal B
Admission free

Tada's Do-It-All House

Director: Tatsushi OMORI, Japan 2011, 112 min
7.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Children who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below

8 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Fukushima: Memories of a Lost Landscape

Director: Yojyu MATSUBAYASHI, Japan 2011, 109 min
8 p.m., Festival Centre

Underground Square

D: Keiya OUCHIDA, Japan 1969, 90 min
8.30 p.m Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum

Deadball

Director: Yudai YAMGUCHI, Japan 2011, 99 min
10.15 p.m., Festival Centre

A HONEYMOON IN HELL: MR. AND MRS. OKI’S FABULOUS TRIP

DIrector: Ryuichi HONDA, Japan 2011, 121 min
10.30 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Film Talk Shinya Tsukamoto

Shinya TSUKAMOTO (Regisseur KOTOKO)
22:30 p.m. Festival Centre K2

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Sugar Baby / Ranshin

Sugar Baby/ Ranshin
Sugar Baby von R: Hiroki KUMAMOTO, Japan 2011, 53 Min.
Ranshin von Keisuke TOMINAGA, Japan 2011, 57 Min.
10.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Festivalparty

with DJane HITO und Daisuke PAK aka ODD (Osaka / Berlin)
10.30 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Games Arcade

12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Festival Centre 1st floor
Admission free (minimum age for admission: 18 years)

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Film Breakfast

Kuruma Tengu von Teppei YAMAGUCHI
11 a.m. Festival Centre KOZ Liminted admission

Taiko – Japanese Drum Workshop

12 p.m., Jügelhaus Hörsaal
Limited Admission

Animationsfilm-Workshop

12 p.m., Festival Centre K2
Limited admission

Fukushima Hula Girls

Director: MAsaki KOBAYASHI, Japan 2011, 102 min
12 p.m., Festival Centre

onedotzero: j-star 11

Short Film Program
12.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Rata und Dingsda

2 p.m. Festival Centre K2
Limited admission

The Egoists

Director: Ryuichi Hirki, Japan 2011, 136 min
2.30 p.m., Festival Centre

Workshop: The kimono – more than just a piece of clothing

2.30 p.m., Jügelhaus Hörsaal B
Limited admission

ENCOUNTERS / Dressing Up

ENCOUNTERS/ DRESSING UP
ENCOUNTERS by Takashi IITSUKA, Japan 2011, 30 min
Dressing Up by Yuka YASUKAWA, Japan 2012, 70 min
2.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Panel discussion with Japanese filmmakers

3 p.m., Festival Centre KOZ
Admission free

Tea ceremony

3 p.m., Festival Centre K2
Limited admission

Concert with OTOWAZA

3 p.m., Jügelhaus Aula

Katori: The art of sword fighting

Demonstration
4.00 p.m., Bockenheim campus
Admission free

Workshop
5.30 p.m. Jügelhaus Hörsaal B
Limited admission

Love Strikes!

Director: Hitoshi ONE, Japan 2011, 118 min
5 p.m., Festival Centre

Project Dengeki

Directors: Ai WATANABE, Masaki DAIKUHARA
5.15 p.m., Festival Centre

Yasukuni

D: Ying LI  , J / VRC 2007, 123 min
6 p.m. Kino Im Deutschen Filmmuseum

Our Homeland

Direcror: Yonghi YANG, Japan 2012, 100 min
7.45 p.m., Festival Centre

Postcard

Director: Kaneto SHINDO, Japan 2010, 114 min
8 p.m., Orfeo's Erben

Minamata-The Victims and their World

D: Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO  , Japan 1971, 120 min
8.30 p.m. Kino Im Deutschen Filmmuseum

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Director: Takashi MIIKE, Japan/UK, 126 min
12.00 p.m., Orfeo's Erben