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filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org - 2/18/2009
License to Live - 2009 SFIAAFF
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A twenty-something man emerges from a decade-long coma and tries to reassemble his now-separated family in Kurosawa's most personal and invigorating work, a family melodrama without a family. The world won't be quite as you remember it, warns a doctor to the just-awakened Yutaka. Don't worry: ...
filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org - 2/18/2009
24 City - 2009 SFIAAFF
— filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org — China's eminent filmmaker Jia Zhangke (UNKNOWN PLEASURES, SFIAAFF '03) returns with an exquisite documentary/fiction hybrid that innovatively... explores the still lives inhabiting Factory 420, a 50-year-old state-owned airplane munitions plant. The ... (more) 24 City - 2009 SFIAAFF

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filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org - 2/18/2009
All Around Us - 2009 SFIAAFF
— filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org — Following a seven-year hiatus, Japanese director Ryosuke Hashiguchi (HUSH; LIKE GRAINS OF SAND) presents a gem of... contemporary cinema that is at once an absurdist comedy, romantic drama and acute illustration of a dysfunctional society. Pitting a ... (more) All Around Us - 2009 SFIAAFF

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The Evening Class:  SFIAAFF 2009—Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up

YNOT at the Movies:  Japanese Cinema at SFIAAFF 2009

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SFIAAFF 2009—Michael Hawley Previews the Line-up
The Evening Class — ... , which are being shown as a late-night, Friday the 13th double-bill at the Castro Theater. A third little-known film directed by Kurosawa in 1998, License to Live is described as a "Tokyo slacker merger of Rip Van Winkle, family melodramas and Samuel Becket-like surrealism." And finally, for those who missed its brief run at the 4-Star Theater in the summer of 2005, the J-horror classic ...

Japanese Cinema at SFIAAFF 2009
YNOT at the Movies — Another focus at the 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) is Japanese cinema. The festival's Spotlight pays tributes to Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (黒沢 清) and Artist in Focus features experimental media artist Takahiko Limura (飯村隆彦). Seven(!) of Kiyoshi ...

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