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All-Night Screening

All-Night Screening

June 6th, Fri. - June 7th, Sat.

TOHO CINEMAS Roppongi Hills

Keyakizaka Complex, 6-10-2 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo

http://www.tohotheater.jp/theater/roppongi/

Neo Japan Program -A

Walk With Her
Walk With Her
Yoshiki Uematsu / 16:24 / Drama / Japan / 2007
One early morning while everyone is still in bed, a father goes out in his wheelchair. His behavior is rather mysterious and we do not know where he is headed. He finds a flower garden and makes a decoration, he enters the woman's washroom, he muses at one elementary school, and then suddenly he erupts in joy. What does he want?
The Revenger
The Revenger
Ayumu Oda / 24:00 / ドラマ / Japan / 2007 / mature
The time is near future in 2061. A strange virus has spread following an explosion at a military-operated chemical lab. Some who were infected have become mutants who suck the blood of living people. In this dangerous age, Tajio, a boy with excellent kung-fu skills, starts on his journey in search of his father's killer. One day, he is saved by a beautiful sword fighter girl named Mifuyu.
Summer Homework
Summer Homework
Emiko Hikita / 8:00 / Comedy / Japan / 2007
Elena, an eight-year-old girl has just one day left of her summer holiday, and she still hasn't finished her homework. Her homework is to DO something to save the Earth! She gets an idea from the news on TV on the last day of the holiday, but to complete her homework, she has to go to a farm. She can't go alone, she needs someone's help, but there is no one home but her strange grandpa. Can the two successfully finish her homework?
Perspective
Perspective
Takayuki Kagawa / 24:45 / Drama / Japan / 2007 / mature
A father is eating the last dinner in the room which put the "white line" which signify dead person. Outside there are detectives and reporters. Everybody need a 'reason'. Howver in this room, there is no relation between victim and perpetrator. When they realize the mistake, they wish the miracle.
Shadow
Shadow
Naomi Kawase / 26:00 / Drama / Japan / 2004
No planning, no script. Just time, space, the actress and the photographer. And a third person watching the proceedings. No one knows what will happen next. A story just like life.

Neo Japan Program -B

Traces
Traces
Satoshi Murakami / 9:13 / Drama / Japan / 2007
In the vast stretch of empty desert, a man and a woman continue to walk, all for the purpose of seeing a "thing" for themselves. Rambling on, they climb to the top of a sand hill to see a huge expanse of blue sea looming before their eyes. There they find the "thing" they were looking for, and gazing out at the calm sea, they begin to talk about their inner thoughts.
M.O.-105 Maria
M.O.-105 Maria
Secky Chang / 24:47 / Drama / Japan / 2007
In the year 2104, the Earth is devastated by a worldwide nuclear war, and mankind is destroyed. 28 years later, Maria, an android, wakes up in a desertified land. Alone in the desert, she calmly executes her duties, stopping from time to time to confirm her memory visions of the times spent with her family...until finally, without noticing, Maria begins to feel emotions.
SNOWMAN THEORY
SNOWMAN THEORY
Eiji Shimada / 10:00 / Comedy / Japan / 2007
A mockumentary of a self-styled scientist Henry Richardson. Can a man become a snowball? Richardson’s been obsessed by this concept for a long time. In his experiment, he finds a positive relationship between people and snow in northern districts.
KAGE
KAGE
Takeshi Maya / 24:55 / Action / Japan / 2007 / mature
A long time ago, there were a secret sect of spy soldiers who fought civil wars to support their powerful samurai masters in Japan. They had to prerate infognito and live as mercenaries. This is a story about warriors who would sacrifice their lives for those whom they love even if its meants death, brave warriors with an dndying fighting spirit for a noble cause.
KEIKO IS
KEIKO IS
Yuji Miyake / 8:30 / Animation / Japan / 2007
The paper-cutting animation "KEIKO IS" tells the story about the relationship between a mother and daughter. Kieko's mother boasts her daughter like "jewelry" which leads Keiko to be hurt by her mothers attitude. Parents should love their children unconditionally, but her mother satisfies her own desires by priding her daughter as an excellent student.
UFO Restaurant
UFO Restaurant
Satoshi Yamaguchi / 30:00 / Drama / / 2007
A high school girl, Yu Ueto, lives in a rural town where a number of UFOs are sighted. She wants to leave her hometown and go to a university in Tokyo, but she is worried about “UFO Shokudo”, the restaurant owned by her family. One day, as her entrance exam draws near, she decides to find someone to work part-time to help at the restaurant in her place.

Neo Japan Program -C

Sit Down! Sit Down!
Sit Down! Sit Down!
Rumi Sasada / 22:00 / Comedy / Japan / 2007
"But I didn't do it!" One afternoon, in the office of a supermarket, a woman accused of shoplifting is questioned by the store manager and security guard. The woman adamantly denies the charge, but when the manager tells her he is calling the police, she breaks down in tears, and the story begins to take a surprising turn...
AFTER SCHOOL MIDNIGHT
AFTER SCHOOL MIDNIGHT
Hitoshi Takekiyo / 7:00 / Animation / Japan / 2007
The leading character, Mokkun, is a hot-blooded "anatomical model" in a science classroom. He spends his days in boredom standing still in a glass case, but once the sound of the bell notifies the end of class and darkness falls all around, fun starts for Mokkun and the classroom becomes a stage for his showtime! A slapstick comedy about a nighttime battle between a science freak and an art freak at the Saint Bicchi Elementary School. "After School Midnight". Can't wait for the night to come...Wish the day would never come...
Solarman
Solarman
Yujiro Taniyama / 24:50 / Experimental / Japan / 2007
In the year 2028A.D, the earth is "boiling".
UN secretary-general, Hilary-Obama-Schwarznegger finally decides to send the invincible Spy-Agent "Solarman" back 20 years ago in order to stop global warming. His mission is to reduce the amount of energy consumption by 50%, and if he fails he has to harakiri his beer belly...
Eating People
Eating People
Hiroyuki Nishikawa / 3:00 / Comedy / Japan / 2006
At a restaurant, a customer falls unconscious after eating a meat dish. However waiters are calm and casually carry him away. A few days later, a policeman comes to the restaurant and posts a missing person flyer on the store's wall. The face in the picture was that of the customer who fell unconscious. A few months later, the restaurant's wall is covered with flyers. The restaurant was drugging their food, putting the customers to sleep and slaughtering them, so that they could recycle the meat as an ingredient for their specialty meat dish.
cable
cable
Ryo Shimizu / 22:50 / Drama / Japan / 2007 / mature
Cables are a tool to link people together, allowing them to share their memories with each other. Girls who meet through the internet implant cables into their arms, but all they saw in the memory of their partner was the harsh reality. This is a film depicting the modern man who while wanting to connect with others, are afraid and cannot be straightforward about their feelings.
Keiu Matsuo and his Mother
Keiu Matsuo and his Mother
Takashi Miike / 30:00 / Animation / Japan / 2006
May 31, 1942, four Imperial Japanese navy midget submarines entered Sydney Harbor on a mission to sink Allied shipping there. Surrounded by Australian attacks, the crewmembers of the submarines, including one commanded by Lt Keiu Matsuo did not surrender but committed suicide. Lt Matsuo’s body was cremated with full naval honors from Australian military with respect to his courage as soldier. As a symbol of friendship between Japan and Australia, his mother visited the Australian War Memorial in 1968.

Brazil Program -A

Alphaville 2007
Alphaville 2007
Paulinho Caruso / 16:00 / Experimental / Brazil / 2007
Alphaville tells the story of a lost Cowboy that uses violence for live in the third world.
Tori
Tori
Andrea Midori Simao & Quelany Vicente / 17:00 / Drama / Brazil / 2006
São Paulo, Brazil. The 50’s. Emi, an eight-year-old girl, daughter of Japanese immigrants, goes after her missing brother to give him the egg his birds have laid.
Pixinguinha, the Old School of Samba/Pixinguinha e a Velha Guarda do Samba
Pixinguinha, the Old School of Samba/Pixinguinha e a Velha Guarda do Samba
Thomaz Farkas / 10:00 / Documentary / Brazil / 2006
In April 1954, Thomaz Farkas shot, with his wind-up 16mm camera, Pixinguinha e o Pessoal da Velha Guarda at São Paulo’s fourth centenary festivities. This material was lost and then rediscovered 50 years later.
Saliva
Saliva
Esmir Filho / 15:00 / Fantasy / Brazil / 2007
The mind of a very young girl, 12 years old Marina who’s going to be kissed for the first time. Doubts and fears drowned in saliva.
The Holly Ass-and the city that was finished before it began-/O Jumento Santo e a Cidade que se acabou antes de comecar
The Holly Ass-and the city that was finished before it began-/O Jumento Santo e a Cidade que se acabou antes de comecar
Leo D. & William Paiva / 11:00 / Animation / Brazil / 2007
The hinterland of Brazil will never be the same, after the donkey Limoeiro come to the surface to pull the ear of the humanity, who lost to the temptation of the Devil.
We are All Children of the Earth/Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
We are All Children of the Earth/Somos Todos Filhos da Terra
Walter Salles / 8:00 / Documentary / Brazil / 1998
Living in the Cantagalo slum, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Adão Xalebaradã has written more than 500 songs. His songs have never been recorded.
Christine Ordioni 2005
Dekasegui
Dekasegui
Roberto Maxwell / 11:14 / Documentary / Brazil / 2006
Brazilian? Japanese? Lost in a world full of strange sounds, Brazilians of Japanese ascendent live close to their roots but far from home.

Brazil Program -B

Pugile
Pugile
Danilo Solferini / 21:00 / Drama / Brazil / 2007
Step/Passo
Step/Passo
Alê Abreu / 3:00 / Animation / Brazil / 2006
A bird tries to escape his cage
Soccro Nobre/Life Somewhere Else
Soccro Nobre/Life Somewhere Else
Walter Salles / 23:00 / Documentary / Brazil / 1995
“Life Somewhere Else” is shot in black and white. It is a moving film about the unusual relationship between a well known sculptor, Frans Krajcberg, and Socorro Nobre, a female inmate of the high-security state penitentiary in Bahia, Brazil.
Hide and Seek/Esconde-Esconde
Hide and Seek/Esconde-Esconde
Alvaro Furloni / 14:30 / Drama / Brazil / 2007
Amaro and Regina find different ways of dealing with the death of their only child
The Twinkle in My Eyes/O Brilho dos Meus Olhos
The Twinkle in My Eyes/O Brilho dos Meus Olhos
Allan Ribeiro / 11:00 / Drama / Brazil /
A man searches of a prodigious moment to make any sense to continue living.
Springtime/Primavera
Springtime/Primavera
Maur ício Osaki / 15:00 / Drama / Brazil / 2007
The son of a Brazilian and a Japanese descent goes with his parents to Kinkaku-Ji to visit his grandmother’s grave. As he arrives at the temple, he becomes afraid, until he meets Alice, a young girl of his age.

Academy Program

Duke of Groove
Duke of Groove
Griffin Dunne / 32:00 / Drama / USA / 1996
A self-conscious young boy and his mother attend a party where they mingle with numerous pop idols and eventually learn more than they ever expected about themselves.
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kate Capshaw, Uma Thurman, and Kiefer Sutherland
Cashback
Cashback
Sean Ellis / 18:00 / Comedy / UK / 2004 / mature
Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
Omnibus
Omnibus
Sam Karmann / 8:00 / Comedy / France / 1993
Every morning and every evening, Jean-Louis Martichoux gets on the very same train to go from home to work and then from work to home. But on a wrong day he gets on the wrong train, and can suddenly picture how very wrong his entire life could turn into…He asks the ticket controller for help.
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York.
My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York.
Barbara Schock / 30:20 / Drama / USA / 1998
Is contemporary comic story about Marian, recently widowed, who travels from the Midwest to New York City to visit her daughter who lives in the bohemian East Village. The small town of Sioux Falls where she has lvied and reaised a family all her life sharply contrast the multicultural millieu of lower Manhattan. Indeed, to Marian, this decaying urban neighborhood, home to every fringe group society has to offer, seems almost like hell on earth. Especiall she can't overcome the seemingly malevolent presence of the Satan's Disciples Motorcycle Club housed just across the street from her daughter's apartment.