"The Face of Jizo" Japanese film screening at The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV > 6:30pm on 24th August & 2pm on 30th August 2013

Time : 
24th August : 6:30 pm
30th August : 2:00 pm

Duration : 99 min. 

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : The Japan Foundation, 5A Ring Road, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi - 110024

Venue Info : www.jfindia.org.in | Map | Events | Nearest Metro Station - 'Moolchand(Violet Line)'

Event Description : 'The Face of Jizo' Japanese film screening. 
In Hiroshima in 1948, memories of the atomic bombing three years earlier are still fresh in the minds of the people. Mitsue (Miyazawa Rie) works at a library where she meets Mr. Kinoshita (Asano Tadanobu), a shy, young man researching the disaster. They grow close, and Mr. Kinoshita eventually asks for her hand in marriage. However, Mitsue is troubled by her memories of the bombing when she was unable to save her father, Takezo (Harada Yoshio), and her closest friends as well as the many others who lost their lives. She doubts whether she deserves to have survived. Then the spirit of her father appears before her, and asserts that she should be happy. Watching over her budding romance with Mr. Kinoshita, Takezo cajoles and encourages Mitsue into opening her heart again.
The third in veteran director Kuroki Kazuo's (Tomorrow, Kirishima 1945) trilogy of films set in wartime Japan.

Year : 2004

Director : KUROKI Kazuo

Language : Japanese with English Subtitles

Cast :
Fukuyoshi Mitsue: MIYAZAWA Rie
Fukuyoshi Takezou: HARADA Yoshio

Mr. Kinoshita: ASANO Tadanobu

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