We propose you an ‘online’ festival of Japanese cinema, an exhibition, a ‘streaming’ premiere and a book presentation.
Dialogue, book presentation and sample
Roxana Vizcaíno is a professional digital photography technologist with more than 20 years of experience. She is part of the Ecuadorian Photographers Association, is a professor at Tecnológico LEXA and volunteer executive director of the Fuvida Foundation Learning to live with diabetes. She will present the photo book Sergio. My son’s diabetes, a project that took more than a year to develop and managed to culminate with a print run of 500 copies. Through photographs and text, Roxana shares what it has been like during these seven years of living with this autoimmune condition for which her son was diagnosed at 2 years of age, currently he is 9 years old. At the event will be Vizcaíno and his son, who will talk with those present, will deliver books for free -but you can make a voluntary donation- and there will be a photo exhibition. Free entry. 19:00, Paulsen Studio (Las Peñas neighborhood).
Free online Japanese film festival
The Embassy of Japan in Ecuador inaugurates the Online Japanese Film Festival 2021 – 2022, which will be held in 25 countries around the world, including Ecuador. The event will premiere five films of various contents, which will be available in a totally free from November 15 to 21, 2021. Similarly, during February 2022 (from 14 to 27) they will be able to enjoy 20 additional exciting films. So they can have access online the festival must complete a simple registration process on the following page: https://watch.jff.jpf.go.jp/signup.html
The schedule is:
The big step (2013, 2h 13m). Drama about the passion of an editor who struggles to create a dictionary over a period of fifteen years. The publisher’s clerk, Majime, has an honesty and frankness that sets him apart from his peers, but has an insightful sensitivity when it comes to language, which leads him to the dictionary publishing department. That’s when he ends up editing The Great Passage, a huge book with 240,000 entries.
Gon the little fox (2019, 27m). Animation. When Gon, a playful orphan fox, discovers that young Hyoju has lost his mother, he tries to comfort him and make amends for his own past antics by secretly bringing the boy little gifts every day. But Hyoju doesn’t realize who is behind the anonymous gifts, and the two head towards a heartbreaking ending.
Tora-san de Goto (2016, 1h 54m). A documentary filmed since 1993 for more than 22 years that tells the story of a large family that makes a living as udon noodle makers in the Goto archipelago, Nagasaki prefecture. Inuzuka Tora, known as Tora de Goto, He is the father of the family and runs the noodle production. Every day, her seven children wake up at five in the morning, help with the business for an hour, and then head to school. This documentary follows the life of this family, watching them all grow up over 22 years.
Some night music (2019, 1h 59m). Drama, romance. Sato is an employee conducting a survey in front of Sendai Station. Saki participates in the survey and the two end up dating. Ten years later, Sato proposes to Saki on the occasion of her 10th anniversary.
Dance with Me (2019, 1h 43m). Comedy. Shizuka works at a large Tokyo trading company and is secretly in love with her handsome boss. One weekend, Shizuka takes her niece to visit a hypnotist at a carnival for inspiration in her next school musical. But it is Shizuka who falls under the spell and soon begins to sing and dance uncontrollably whenever she hears music. Shizuka must embark on a cross-country quest for the hypnotist to break the spell, singing and dancing the entire way!
Exhibition of real bodies
On Bodies, real human bodies You can see eight human bodies, eight torsos and more than one hundred healthy organs that are available to visitors to discover the body inside and how it works. The exhibition is organized by the production company Arriba el Telón and has been seen by more than 30 million people in 50 countries. The show in Guayaquil is the most modern of its kind, having more than 40 luminous led panels and virtual guides, as well as face-to-face specialists in all rooms. It also has display cabinets and internal led lighting. The bodies are preserved by the plastination technique created by the German anatomist Gunther Von Hagens, and it was the result of a long process of more than 20 years of work. The main objective of the exhibition is to make attendees understand “how this true perfect machine, the human body, is constituted.” Tickets: $ 5, $ 3 and $ 2.50. Open from Monday to Thursday (12:00 to 20:00), Friday (12:00 to 21:00), Saturdays (10:00 to 21:00) and Sundays (from 10:00 to 20:00), until on December 20, Palacio de Cristal (Malecón Simón Bolívar).
Recent streaming premiere
Dopesick: Story of an addiction
By Star Plus You can watch the miniseries that transports viewers to the epicenter of the fight against opioid addiction in the United States, from the boardroom of Purdue Pharma to a stricken mining community in Virginia, passing through the offices of the DEA . The production -inspired by real events- has completely conquered the critics and the public in the United States and promises to do the same in the rest of the world. In other words, it tells the story of the great crisis of these drugs in the American Union when the prescription of oxycodone led to the addiction of many patients who were prescribed this painkiller, even causing entire communities to be affected. Direction: Danny Strong (Rebel in the rye). Cast: Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, Kaitlyn Dever, and Rosario Dawson. The first season of the series consists of eight episodes, currently two are available.
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