Yo,
Heard exams are over now and everyone wants to chill out or look for jobs….Anyway, as what you guys are little aware (I hope you were) there is a little movie marathon next week. We’ll be screening 2 Highlight Movies a day and squeezing in what animes, trailers, pvs, commercials we can watch…it’s goin to be non-stop 6 hr screening (sorry limited time only).
Here’s what to expect:
Venue: ITAS LT 5
Cost: Free for Members and $2 for Non-Members (if u inviting friends)
Bloody Monday (4th April 2005)
11am to 11:15am - Settling in. Find popcorn. Running Trailers/CMs
11:15am to 1:15pm - Battle Royale 1 (1hr 54min)
1:15pm to 2pm - Lunch Break/Free Screening
2pm to 3pm - Anime Movie of the Day
3pm to 5:13pm - Battle Royale 2 (2hr 13min)
Funny Wednesday (6th April 2005)
11am to 11:15am - Settling in. Find popcorn. Running Trailers/CMs
11:15am to 1:15pm - Drugstore Girl
1:15pm to 2pm - Lunch Break/Free Screening
2pm to 2:30pm - Anime Movie of the Day
2:30pm to 5pm - Cha no Aji aka The Taste of Tea (2hr 23min)
Cool Friday (8th April 2005)
11am to 11:15am - Settling in. Find popcorn. Running Trailers/CMs
11:15am to 1:15pm - Zatoichi (1hr 51min)
1:15pm to 2pm - Lunch Break/Free Screening
2pm to 3pm - Anime Movie of the Day
3pm to 5pm - Kagen no Tsuki
Please take note that this is a rough guide to the screening times but we will try to keep as accurate as possible depending on how long each screenin takes to finish. If there are any changes for movies, we will inform the substitute movie on the day.
Free Screening - consists of jap variety shows/short anime clips or episodes/music videos (dependin on time left)
Movie Sypnosis:
Battle Royale 1
Some time in the new millennium Japan falls into economical decay, mass unemployment reigns in the country. With no clear future available, the student no longer respect school, violence increases due to riots and many students drop out of school. With the chaotic situation the government enacts the Battle Royale act, which consists of selected one of the poorest performing classes and sending off to an island where they must fight for survival and only one student can leave alive. The students have 3 days to complete the game or everyone dies due to explosive devices on their necks, they are given random weapons and the only rules to follow is avoid the danger zone and don’t cause any trouble or the army will kill them. Mistrust, fear and hate run rampant and chaos spread among the students and they soon give in to the fight for survival…
Battle Royale 2
Tokyo, a dirty orange-red late afternoon. Suddenly Shinjuku’s skyscrapers all tremble and collapser. Japan has fallen victim to terrorism, and the perpetrators are WIld 7, a Japanese group lead by Shuya Nanahara, survivor of the Battle Royale program from the first movie.
When Wild 7 subsequently claims credit for the bombing and declares a war against the government of Japan, the government responds the way it knows best: it launches a new Battle Royale program whereby a lucky class of junior high school graduates are sent on a do-or-die mission to kill Shuya Nanahara and Wild 7….
Drugstore Girl
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train (”destination anywhere, east or west, she don’t care”) and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo’s remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district’s middle-aged men all fall for the young girl’s charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that’s her favourite sport. Written by Kankuro Kudo (”Go,” “Ping Pong,” among others), the film was directed by Katsuhide Motoki of the hit comedy series, “Tsuribaka Nisshi.” Rena Tanaka gets her first starring role in a comedy film.
The Taste of Tea
A family of five, consisting of father, mother, teenage son, young daughter and grandfather, live together in a small village north of Tokyo. When the children’s uncle from the city (Asano Tandanobu) moves in, all hell breaks loose. Grandfather Oji (Tatsuya Gashuin) is an odd-tempered eccentric, mother Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) wants to return to her previous job as a table cartoon illustrator, and father Noubo is a hypno-therapist who works at home. The son Hajime (Takahiro Sato) is indulging in his teenage fantasy, falling for a beautiful girl at a school, and younger daughter Sachiko also has growing pains…
Zatoichi
A clan of thieves and scoundrels has put the inhabitants of a village in check. By enforcing a policy of intolerable cruelty and fear, the villagers are rendered poor and helpless against the cruel uprising of the Kuchinawa clan.
A wandering blind masseuse stumbles upon the village. This blind man is none other than the legendary Zatoichi. With a deadly walking stick at his side, he serves swift justice to the Kuchinawa clan. Along the way, he meets a compulsive gambler, two geishas who are more than what meets the eye, and a deadly mercenary; all contributing to yet another stunning tale of the blind swordsman, Zatoichi.
Kagen no Tsuki
Adapted from the acclaimed comic by Yazawa Ai, director Nikai Ken recruited L’Arc~en~Ciel lead singer HYDE, Kill Bill’s Kuriyama Chiaki and newcomer Narimiya Hiroki to star in this strange love story.
Every 19 years, during “Kagen no Tsuki”, or Last Quarter of the Moon, a miracle is set to happen and a romance is set to brew. Muzuki (Kuriyama) breaks up with her boyfriend Tomoki on her 19th birthday. Muzuki, feeling lonely and having nowhere to go, suddenly hears a familiar guitar melody. She followed the sound to an old house, where she meets Adam. They fall in love and vowed to meet a week later. However, on a night of the last quarter of the moon, Muzuki was run over by a car. She awakes to find herself in the old house, but she cannot leave it. She is still alive, lying in a coma, but existing as a ghost in the house…
