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28th Tokyo International Film Festival

Japanese Classics

Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]  (Screened together with “Japan and the Japanese” "Yowamushi Chinsengumi”)

 

Director:Kon Ichikawa

Drama Suspense

Japanese Premiere

10/26 10:20-  Ticket sales have closed.  
10/29 10:50-  Ticket sales have closed.  

Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]:99min. Japanese B&W|1958 Japan/Japan and the Japanese:20min. Japanese|1970 Japan| |   | Distributor in Japan : KADOKAWA CORPORATION/TOHO CO.,LTD.

Introduction

Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Goichi starts working as an apprentice in Shukaku Temple common name in Kyoto in spring of 1944, which he worships. However, the temple becomes no more than a tourist attraction after the World War II. The life style of priests in the temple also changes because of economic wealth. Goichi despairs of it and falls into ruin. One of Kon Ichikawa's masterpieces was restored as a 4K digital remastered version and it will debut in Japan.

Japan and the Japanese
Eight-multi video work by Kon Ichikawa screened at Japan Pavilion at Osaka Expo in 1970. Now, the films have been digitally synthesized to one screen. Miraculous release after 45 years.

Yowamushi Chinsengumi
Long-lost animation film by Kon Ichikawa and others discovered last year in the US. This is the third episode in Hana Yori Dango series. The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain is told comically.
|5min B&W|1935 Japan|©TOHO CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.


 
 
 
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Director
Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa was born on November 20, 1915 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. In 1948, he debuted as the director of A Flower Blooms. Since then, he had created lots of masterpieces like The Burmese Harp (1956), which won the San Giorgio Prize in Venice Film Festival, Odd Obsession (1959) and Tokyo Olympiad (1965). He passed away on February 13, 2008 at the age of 92.

Staff
Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Director : Kon Ichikawa
Original Novel : Yukio Mishima
Screenplay : Natto Wada
Screenplay : Keiji Hasebe
Cinematographer : Kazuo Miyagawa

Yowamushi Chinsengumi
Animation: Takao Nakano, Shiro Yasumi, Giichi Ichikawa (Kon Ichikawa), Kazuo Miyazaki
Cast

Conflagration [4K Digitally Restored Version]
Raizo Ichikawa
Tatsuya Nakadai
Ganjiro Nakamura

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