2015 / UCLA Japanese film screenings with director Shingo Wakagi, May 14, 15

Forwarded for UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

May 14, 2015/ 7:30 PM

Film Screening: Asleep

With Director Shingo Wakagi

UCLA Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium

http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/event/11251

RSVP: http://ucla.in/1HpnxQY

The Terasaki Center is proud to announce the first U.S. screening of Asleep (“白河夜船”), a film adaptation of the novel by acclaimed writer Banana Yoshimoto.

Directed by Shingo Wakagi, Asleep tells the story of a woman who finds herself unable to stay awake after she becomes romantically involved with a man whose wife is in a coma.

There will be a reception held at the Fowler Museum Terrace at 6:00pm.

Following the screening, director Shingo Wakagi will discuss the film with Michael Emmerich, translator of the novel and a professor of Japanese literature in the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.

The first U.S. screening of Asleep is part of the double film screening event of Mr. Wakagi’s films. Please also join us for the screening of Waltz in Starlight (“星影のワルツ”) on the following evening, Friday May 15th at 7:30pm.

May 15, 2015/ 7:30 PM

Film Screening: Waltz In Starlight

With Director Shingo Wakagi

UCLA Fowler Museum Lenart Auditorium

http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/event/11252

RSVP: http://ucla.in/1HpnRPx

Photography student Nobuto has just finished his studies and returned to the village of Hamamatsu to be with his family. Nobuto’s grandfather is a once-popular manzai performer known by the stage name of Takuji who is enjoying his twilight years in the company of his family.

As Takuji reaches the end of his life’s journey and Nobuto prepares to carve his own path, the affectionate interactions between grandfather and grandson provides the young shutterbug with memories that will last a lifetime.

The film will be introduced by UCSD professor Daisuke Miyao.

The special screenings of Asleep (“白河夜船”) and Waltz in Starlight (“星影のワルツ”) are presented by the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies in partnership with the Fowler Museum, Japan Foundation Los Angeles, and the Yanai Initiative.