Sat March 14, 2015
Cicada (Dean Yamada; Japan/US, 2014)
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In Person / Dean Yamada
(Senrigan)
Jumpei is surrounded by kids. He’s a schoolteacher as well as the uncle of a precocious nine-year-old. And then there are the adults in his life who haven’t quite grown up themselves, including his rock-n-rolling girlfriend and gambling-addict brother-in-law. So when Jumpei finds out he can’t have children he takes the opportunity to deepen his relationships with the big and little kids that already encircle him every day. A professor at LA’s Biola University, director Yamada took his students to Japan to produce this soft-stepping comedy that combines colorful characterizations with the gentle moods of social discovery found in much Japanese cinema.
• Written by Yu Shibuya. Photographed by Daniel McNutt. With Yugo Saso, Masayuki Yui, Hiroko Wada, Jumpei Yasui.
(100 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, DCP)
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(Senrigan)
Jumpei is surrounded by kids. He’s a schoolteacher as well as the uncle of a precocious nine-year-old. And then there are the adults in his life who haven’t quite grown up themselves, including his rock-n-rolling girlfriend and gambling-addict brother-in-law. So when Jumpei finds out he can’t have children he takes the opportunity to deepen his relationships with the big and little kids that already encircle him every day. A professor at LA’s Biola University, director Yamada took his students to Japan to produce this soft-stepping comedy that combines colorful characterizations with the gentle moods of social discovery found in much Japanese cinema.
• Written by Yu Shibuya. Photographed by Daniel McNutt. With Yugo Saso, Masayuki Yui, Hiroko Wada, Jumpei Yasui.
(100 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, DCP)
In Person / Dean Yamada
(Senrigan)
Jumpei is surrounded by kids. He’s a schoolteacher as well as the uncle of a precocious nine-year-old. And then there are the adults in his life who haven’t quite grown up themselves, including his rock-n-rolling girlfriend and gambling-addict brother-in-law. So when Jumpei finds out he can’t have children he takes the opportunity to deepen his relationships with the big and little kids that already encircle him every day. A professor at LA’s Biola University, director Yamada took his students to Japan to produce this soft-stepping comedy that combines colorful characterizations with the gentle moods of social discovery found in much Japanese cinema.
• Written by Yu Shibuya. Photographed by Daniel McNutt. With Yugo Saso, Masayuki Yui, Hiroko Wada, Jumpei Yasui.
(100 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, DCP)
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(Senrigan)
Jumpei is surrounded by kids. He’s a schoolteacher as well as the uncle of a precocious nine-year-old. And then there are the adults in his life who haven’t quite grown up themselves, including his rock-n-rolling girlfriend and gambling-addict brother-in-law. So when Jumpei finds out he can’t have children he takes the opportunity to deepen his relationships with the big and little kids that already encircle him every day. A professor at LA’s Biola University, director Yamada took his students to Japan to produce this soft-stepping comedy that combines colorful characterizations with the gentle moods of social discovery found in much Japanese cinema.
• Written by Yu Shibuya. Photographed by Daniel McNutt. With Yugo Saso, Masayuki Yui, Hiroko Wada, Jumpei Yasui.
(100 mins, In Japanese with English subtitles, Color, DCP)
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2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720
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