RETRO JAPAN! SIFF TAKES YOU BACK IN TIME WITH CLASSICS FROM THE 80s!

Three Japanese classics from the 80s

The Kawakita Memorial Film Institute has devoted much effort in preserving classic Japanese film classics for future generations. For the first time, new copies of works by three influential directors in the 80s will be shown at the SIFF.

Family Game

 

September 12 (Sunday) 9:40PM

HK Science Museum

 

Deliciously lampooning modern Japan, this rare satirical landmark film concerns a seemingly ordinary family that hires a university tutor for their younger son. But what results is unpredictable, inventive and riotous.

I Are You, You Am Me

 

September 10 (Friday) 7:30PM

HK Space Museum

 

When Kazuo and Kazumi fall down a long flight of steps from a hilltop shrine, they awaken to find their bodies switched. Their lives in junior high aren’t made any easier, though the pair begins to develop feelings for one another in this hilarious coming-of-age story.

Mahjong Horoki

 

September 11 (Saturday) 7:30PM

UA Langham Place

 

An entertaining yarn about a mahjong neophyte who loses it all only to become a top player, Mahjong Horoki’s impressive black & white photography and convincing post-World War II set design pays homage to earlier Japanese classics.