People Cinema
The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue and The Great Passage
4 Oct 2019 (Fri) 17:30
The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Yuya Ishii / Japan / 2017 / Col’ / 108’
In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles
Love and death and love again in Tokyo. She spends her days dealing with life and death as a nurse, straining against formality and conformity. He spends his days working with his buddies in the precariousness world of construction. Nights are for drinking, bars, seeking and emptiness. Nevertheless, these two young people find and lose and find each other across the streets of a modern Tokyo that acts as much as a protagonist as a stage for their encounters. And they draw us more and more into their questions about life, their friends, their family and their hopes.
In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles
Love and death and love again in Tokyo. She spends her days dealing with life and death as a nurse, straining against formality and conformity. He spends his days working with his buddies in the precariousness world of construction. Nights are for drinking, bars, seeking and emptiness. Nevertheless, these two young people find and lose and find each other across the streets of a modern Tokyo that acts as much as a protagonist as a stage for their encounters. And they draw us more and more into their questions about life, their friends, their family and their hopes.
5 Oct 2019 (Sat) 17:30
The Great Passage
The Great Passage
Yuya Ishii / Japan / 2013 / Col’ / 133’
In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles
In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles
Mitsuya Majime is an unsuccessful salesman who works in publishing company. But his love of reading and dedication in linguistics, catches the eyes of dictionary editor who are seeking a replacement for himself working on a new dictionary called “Daitokai” (The Great Passage). Majime’s love of language not only put him in the best position composing the dictionary, but also encouraged his fellows who is slow to develop an appreciation for his challenging task. Meanwhile, complications begins piling up as the dictionary department descends into chaos. What will Majime do?