Embassy of Japan in Myanmar

Japanese Film Show

The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar presents Japanese Film Show with English subtitle. We feature Japanese famous actresses, Rena Tanaka this time, and will show love story and teen movie.
 Entry free. Registration is not required.
 Please bring you ID and show it at gate of Embassy

1. First Love (Tetsuo Shinohara / 2000 / 115min.)
Time & Date: 17:30- Thursday, 19th March, 2015
Venue: Assembly Hall, The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar

The Life of high school student Satoka is complicated by her mother’s cancer and the fact that she and her father could never communicate well and now she is thrown in with him every day. In going through her mother’s things Satoka discovers a love letter written to Shinichiro, her mother’s first love. Satoka determines to fulfill her mother’s wish to see him again. She finds him but he is no longer the man her mother knew. Still, she persists and eventually grooms him back to something like his former self. At the long planned reunion-under the blossoming cherry tree, just as her mother had imagined-things do not turn out the way she expected them too.

2. Give it all (Itsumichi Isomura/ 1998/ 120min.)
Time & Date: 14:00- Saturday, 21st March, 2015
Venue: Assembly Hall, The Embassy of Japan in Myanmar

The film is set in the 1970s. Since that era, Japan has undergone massive changes; not all of them for the good. Now surrounded by great material prosperity, people are beginning to be troubled by the thought that perhaps something is missing from their lives. In 1976, Etsuko realizes that her high school has no gir1’s rowing club and she begins a drive to start one. She manages to cajole four students to join the club, promising them it will only be until the term ends in October. Despite Etsuko’s drive, the girls realize they cannot even carry the heavy boat down to the water. This spurs Etsuko’s nemesis, Boo, to begin a campaign of ridiculing the fledgling girl’s rowing club. After a summer of intensive training at the hands of 3rd grader Yasuda, the girls seem almost ready for the annual combined schools’ regatta. But, it appears that only the girls themselves know just how unprepared they really are.