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3 August 2018 | Friday | 4:15 PM

5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND
Runtime:63 min
Release Date:3 March 2007
Director:Makoto Shinkai
Cast:Kenji Mizuhashi as TakakiTono
Yoshimi Kondo as Akari Shinohara (Young)
AyakaOnoue asAkari Shinohara (Mature)
Plot:TakakiTono and Akari Shinohara had been apart since they left elementary school but still kept in touch. One day in winter, Takaki leaves Tokyo and sets off for Tochigi where Akari lives.The movie focuses on the roving souls of Takaki and Akari in their adulthood.

3 August 2018 | Friday | 5:30 PM

SHODO GIRLS!!
Runtime:120 min
Release Date:15 May 2010
Director: Ryuichi Inomata
Cast:Rico Narumi asSatokoHayakawa
Rio Yamashita as Mio Oakazaki
Nanami Sakurabaas Kana Shinomori

Plot:Based on a true story about high school girls in Ehime who stage a 'shodo' (calligraphy) performance tournament to revitalize their town which used to be a leading region in paper production. The film gives an uplifting portrayal of several high school girls as they pour their heart and soul into calligraphy.

4 August 2018| Saturday | 3:30 PM

RED BEARD
Runtime:185 min
Release Date:24 April 1965
Director:Akira Kurosawa
Cast:Toshiro Mifune as Dr. KyojoNiide
Yuzo Kayama as Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
TsutomuYamazaki as Sahachi

Plot:Dr. Noboru Yasumoto gets transferred to a rural clinic to work under Dr. KyojoNiide (red beard), who is very compassionate and dedicated. Gradually Yasumotobegins to understand the magnitude of cruelty and suffering around him as well as his power to ease that suffering, learning the true meaning of being a doctor.

4 August 2018| Saturday | 6:45PM

TERESUKO（THREE　FOR　THE　ROAD）
Runtime:108 min
Release Date:11 July 2007
Director:Hideyuki Hirayama
Cast:Kanzaburo Nakamura as Yajirobee
Akira Emoto as Kitahachi
Kyoko Koizumi as Okino
LaSalle Ishii as Umehachi

Plot:Yaji is in love with Okino, a popular local courtesan, but she remains frustratingly beyond his reach. Okino decides to lie to Yaji, pleading “Help me run away to see my dying father one last time.” Yaji rises to the occasion and proclaims he will engineer her escape from the pleasure quarters and take her to her native village.

5 August 2018| Sunday | 3:30 PM

SEVEN SAMURAI
Runtime:207 min
Release Date:26 April 1954
Director:Akira Kurosawa

Cast:Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo
Takashi Shimura as Kambe
Isao Kimura as Katsusiro

Plot:In the Warring States Period, peasants terrorized by bandit attacks decide to hire samurai to protect their village. Kambe assembles a group of samurai, and joined by the thug, Kikuchiyo, the seven men stake their lives to stand up against the bandits through a variety of tactics.

5 August 2018| Sunday | 7:15 PM

THE GARDEN OF WORDS
Runtime:46 min
Release Date:31 May 2013
Director:Makoto Shinkai

Cast: MiyuIrino as Takao Akizuki
Kana Hanazawa as Yukari Yukino
Aya Hirano as Takao’s Mother

Plot:Takao, a high school student who aspires to be a shoemaker, skips school when it rains and sketches in a park. One day, he encounters an older woman Yukino, and they grow close exclusively through secret meetings on rainy days, but then…

Organized by NihongoKaiwaKyookai Society and Consulate General of Japan in Kolkata.

In Collaboration with Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre I & CA Department, Government of West Bengal and Japan Foundation