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Japanese Film Week between 13-17 January at Toldi Cinema!
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The highly anticipated Japanese Film Week will return to the movie screens of Toldi Cinema in 2025. Just like last year, five exceptional Japanese films have been selected from the best of Japanese cinema of recent years. The selection includes the award-winning film „Under the Open Sky” by one of Japan’s leading female directors, Nishikawa Miwa. The film will be screened on the closing day of the festival.
The Japanese Film Week opens on Monday, 13 January with a hilarious comedy called „First Gentleman”, which will be followed by a gripping family drama on Tuesday called „After the Sunset”, which touches upon motherhood, family ties and forgiveness. The repertoire also includes the heart-warming comedy “YUDO, the Way of the Bath“, which offers an insight into the exciting world of the traditional Japanese public baths (sento). And for those interested in Japanese lacquering, we recommend the captivating drama “The Tsugaru Lacquer Girl“.
The admission fee for each screening is HUF 1500 (EUR 3,6). Tickets can now be purchased at the ticket office or the website of Toldi Mozi. The films will be screened in Japanese, with English and Hungarian subtitles.
Lineup of the Japanese Week 2025
① First Gentleman (2021, 121 mins)
Screening date: 13 January 2025 (from 18:30)
Ornithologist Hiyori Soma is married to Rinko, leader of a minority political party. One morning, his beloved wife poses an enigmatic question. “Hey, Hiyori, would you have a problem if I became Prime Minister?” He asks her to repeat the question, but she shrugs him off. Still confused, he sets off for a ten-day expedition on a remote island with no cell phone connection to observe birds in the wild. In his absence, Rinko changes the future of the nation! She is selected as the first female Prime Minister in Japan’s history, making Hiyori the first ever Prime Minister’s husband. Hiyori was always 100% supportive of Rinko’s political ambitions, but could never have imagined the life that awaited him…!
② After the Sunset (2019, 133 mins)
Screening date: 14 January 2025 (from 18:30)
Set in the small town in Nagashima, Kagoshima prefecture in southern Japan. Yuichi Hino farms yellowtail fish, a family business, for his livelihood. He lives with his wife, his mother and a 7 year olds son, Towa. However, Towa is not their biological son. He came to live with them when he was 1 year old as a foster child, and now Yuichi and Satsuki want to formally adopt him. As they embark on the special adoption procedures with the Family Court, they soon find out a shocking truth: Towa’s biological mother is closer to them than they thought! The tension between the foster parents and the biological mother, the presence of residents on the island and the children growing up there are depicted in a human drama.
③ YUDO, the Way of the Bath (2022, 126 mins)
Screening date: 15 January 2025 (from 18:30)
