| 2012-02-20 | | | Ushiyama Junichi: Our Wonderful Television Screening |
The TV documentary pioneer, Ushiyama Junichi revives with fashion. After 10 years, the unfinished project of the late Sato Makoto has finally come to completion.
- • February 11 (Sat)–24 (Fri) 11:00
- Ushiyama Junichi: Our Wonderful Television
Dir: Hatakeyama Yohei / JAPAN / 2011 / 85 min / YIDFF 2011 My Television Program
[Venue]- Auditorium Shibuya (Tokyo, Shibuya)
- [Admission]
- 1,400 yen, Over Sixty: 1,000 yen,
Students of the Film School of Tokyo: 800 yen, Advance ticket: 800 yen
For more information 
Ushiyama Junichi: Our Wonderful Television Screening website (in Japanese)
| 2012-02-20 | | | Kimura Eibun Retrospective |
Kimura Eibun (Hidefumi) has brought us a number of TV documentaries to our homes as the director of RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corporation. His multihued visions are said to be free-willed and sometimes even nonsensical. With his work, the beauty, sadness and humor of human beings are what spew out of the movie screen.
His unsurpassable films that awed the audience at YIDFF 2011’s “My Television” program will be screened.
- • February 11 (Sat)–March 2 (Fri)
- Lineup:
Fly Ogachi + Darkness
Lead Fog + Pitch-Black
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea (Kugaijodo) + I Love Yu-chan
The Journalist: Rokko / Kikutake Sunao
Bongseonhwa
A Portrait of the Author
The Painters and the War
The Home-Run King: Oshita Hiroshi
The Journalists under the Pacific War
*Without English subtitles.
*Talk sessions with special guests on every Saturday and Sunday screening.
- [Venue]
- Auditorium Shibuya (Tokyo, Shibuya)
- [Admission]
- 1,500 yen
Advance ticket / one time ticket: 1,200 yen, 5 tickets: 5,000 yen
For more information Kimura Eibun Retrospective website (in Japanese)
| 2012-02-20 | | | Jon Jost Retrospective |
- • February 28 (Tue)
16:40 - Speaking Directly
- 19:00
- Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Dead End)
• February 29 (Wed)
16:30- Bell Diamond
- 18:30
- Plain Talk & Common Sense YIDFF ’89 International Competition
• March 1 (Thu)
16:50- Rembrandt Laughing
- 19:00
- London Brief YIDFF '97 Special Invitation, FIPRESCI Special Mention
• March 2 (Fri)
17:00- 6 Easy Pieces YIDFF 2001 International Competition
- 18:30
- Oui Non YIDFF 2003 International Competition
• March 3 (Sat)
14:00- Images of a Lost City YIDFF 2011 International Competition
- 15:40
- Special Screenings & Talk Session (Admission Free)
Guests: Jon Jost and Fujiwara Toshi (Filmmaker)
[Venue]- Athenee Francais Cultural Center
- [Admission]
- 1,000 yen per program / 2,700 yen for 3 programs
- [Presented by]
- Athenee Francais Cultural Center, The Film School of Tokyo
For more information Athenee Francais Cultural Center website: “Jon Jost Retrospective” (in Japanese)
| 2012-02-20 | | | Staub (Dust) Screening in Kobe |
- • March 3 (Sat)–4 (Sun) 14:30
- Staub (Dust)
Dir: Hartmut Bitomsky / GERMANY, SWITZERLAND / 2007 / 94 min / YIDFF 2009 International Competition
[Venue]- Kobe Planet Film Archive
For more information Kobe Planet Film Archive website: Staub (Dust) (in Japanese)