Japan film festival to delight Vietnamese audiences

Eight Japanese films, themed ‘Passion’, will be shown in three major Vietnamese cities at the 2014 Japanese Film Festival, which runs from October 10 to November 16.

‘One Million Yen Girl’, ‘Feel the Wind’, ‘Bushido Sixteen’, ‘Shodo Girls!!’, ‘In His Chart’, ‘Peak –The Rescuers’, ‘Tomorrow’s Joe’, ‘Robo-G’, will be screened in Hanoi, Da Nang and Vung Tau.

Of the films, ‘Robo-G’ (director Shinobu Yaguchi/2012) will be selected to open this year’s festival. The film, featuring comical scientists and strange robot, has been screened in some cities in Vietnam and got many laughs and a favourable reception.

All films will be screened with both English and Vietnamese sub-titles.

Free tickets for the screenings can be collected from September 27 at the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam, at 27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi; Dien Bien Cinema at 32 Dien Bien, in Da Nang cities and at Le Do cinema in Vung Tau.

(Source: nhandan.org.vn)