2014 Eiga Sai Film Festival Shangri-La Plaza Movie Schedules

Have some time from July 3 to August 10 to watch some Japanese Films? Eiga Sai 2014 by the Japanese Foundation Manila will take place this year in Shangri-La Plaza, Abreeza mall/Cinemateque (Davao City) and Ayala Center (Cebu). All the films have been given a G Rating. There will be 18 films in the festival for 2014.
Here are the movies and the schedules.

1. Homeland

Release date: 2014

Running time: 118 minutes

Genre: Drama

Just after nuclear accident in Fukushima, Jiro returns to his hometown after 20 years and faces daunting task to tend the fields at the farm of his family, located near the radiation caution zone

2. The Kirishima Thing

Release date: 2012
Running time: 103 minutes
Genre: Drama

Popular student Kirishima plans to withdraw from after-school activities which sends the other cool kids into protest.

3. Hospitalité

Release date: 2010
Running time: 100 minutes
Genre: Drama, Children/Family

Kobayashi Mikio has a small printing factory in downtown Tokyo and lives with a quiet life with wife Natsuki and the rest of the family. One day, a mysterious man appears to claim that a son of a rich man provided the financial support for Kobayashi’s factory.

4. Robo-G

Release date: 2011
Running time: 111 minutes
Genre: Science fiction

Something happens when a consumer electronics employee was ordered to develop a bipedal robot fail... 

5. Things Left Behind

Release date: 2012
Running time: 80 minutes
Genre: Documentary

Documentary about photographer Ishiuchi Miyako’s “Hiroshima” exhibition at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology which features images of shoes, dresses, clothes and other items of those who died in Hiroshima atomic bomb

6. Casting Blossoms to the Sky

Release date: 2012
Running time: 160 minutes

Genre: Drama 

A lady newspaper reporter experiences numerous tale as she meets the people of Nagaoka. 

7. A Story of Yonosuke

Release date: 2013
Running time: 160 minutes
Genre: Drama, Romance

A young man named Yonosuke left his hometown of Nagasaki to study in a university in Tokyo. As he is going in his classes and extra activities, he went to driving school and met Shoko, a company president's daughter.

8. Fly, Dakota, Fly!

Release date: 2013
Running time: 109 minutes
Genre: Drama, Historical

British Air Force “Dakota” VIP transport plane which will head to Tokyo makes an emergency landing in Sado Island, a small village with several islanders which have mixed feelings if they help the crew.

10. Symphony in August

Release date: 2009
Running time: 118 minutes
Genre: Drama, Children/Family, Animation

Ai decides to move to Tokyo alone so she can fulfill her promise to her mother for her to become a singer. However, reality dawn and life becomes cruel and she just can’t find a way to have a debut. Feeling her hopes crushed, Ai sets her mind to do something extraordinary.

11. Wolf Children

Release date: 2012
Running time: 117 minutes
Genre: Animation

College student Hana meets and falls in love in a young “wolf man”. She eventually give birth to two “wolf children,” Ame and Yuki, with tragedy striking the family after the wolf man pass away.

12. Like Father, Like Son

Release date: 2013
Running time: 121 minutes
Genre: Drama

Ryota and wife Midori learn their son was switched at birth with another boy at the maternity hospital. They try to enter into agreement for an exchange with the other parents involved -- however Ryota had some doubts.

13. Tug of War!

Release date: 2012
Running time: 111 minutes
Genre: Comedy

Chiaki works in the PR department of Oita City government was tasked to organize a women’s tug-of-war team to get some publicity for the city. She asks the employees from a lunch center about to be shut down, and they strive to win the national tug-of-war tournament.

14. Until the Break of Dawn

Release date: 2012
Running time: 129 minutes
Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Ayumi is just an ordinary high school student, where he is trained by his grandmother Aiko so he can take the role of “tsunagu.” As he manages the reunions for a different clients he had doubts on whether the living can be saved by their deceased loved ones again, which led to further questions regarding the mysterious deaths of his parents.

15. Reunion

Release date: 2012
Running time: 105 minutes
Genre: Drama

Just after the Tohoku earthquake and fatal tsunami, a junior high school gym in Iwate Prefecture’s Kamaishi City was used as a morgue. Aiba who worked in a funeral business offers to volunteer at the converted morgue.

16. Momoiro sora o

Release date: 2011
Running time: 113 minutes
Genre: Drama

High school student Kawashima Izumi has the habit to grade newspapers, when she happen to pick up a wallet with a large amount of cash. This pick up her curiosity as she search for the wallet’s owner.

17. Tamako in Moratorium

Release date: 2013
Running time: 78 minutes
Genre: Comedy

Tamako finally graduates from college and decided to return to the sports clothing shop of her father Zenji. She spend her days lazily without looking for work. One day, Zenji goes on a blind date, with a question if Tamako can take charge of her life.

18. Hearts Together

Genre: Documentary

 Grammy Award-winner jazz keyboardist Bob James and popular Japanese singer Matsuda Seiko perform at a charity concert with local jazz band from Ofunato, Iwate, to pray for the recovery of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Film Screening Schedules

Shangri-La Plaza

July 3: Homeland (7 p.m.)

July 4: Hospitalité (1:30 p.m.), Tamako in Moratorium (4:30 p.m.), Momoiro sora o (7:30 p.m.)

July 5: Until the Break of Dawn (1:30 p.m.), Wolf Children (4:30 p.m.), Like Father, Like Son (7:30 p.m.)

July 6: The Kirishima Thing (1:30 p.m.), Fly, Dakota, Fly! (4:30 p.m.), A Story of Yonosuke (7:30 p.m.)

July 7: Kokoro o hitotsuni (1:30 p.m.), Casting Blossoms to the Sky (4:30 p.m.), Symphony in August (7:30 p.m.)

July 8: Things Left Behind (1:30 p.m.), Momoiro sora o (4:30 p.m.), Tamako in Moratorium (7:30 p.m.)

July 9: Symphony in August (1:30 p.m.), Tug of War (4:30 p.m.), A Story of Yonosuke (7:30 p.m.)

July 10: Fly, Dakota, Fly! (1:30 p.m.), Casting Blossoms to the Sky (4:30 p.m.), Hospitalité (7:30 p.m.)

July 11: Tug of War! (1:30 p.m.), The Kirishima Thing (4:30 p.m.), Like Father, Like Son (7:30 p.m.)

July 12: Tamako in Moratorium (1:30 p.m.), Reunion (4:30 p.m.), Homeland (7:30 p.m.

July 13: Wolf Children (1:30 p.m.), Like Father, Like Son (4:30 p.m.), Until the Break of Dawn (7:30 p.m.)

Abreeza Mall

July 25: Symphony in August (10:30 p.m.), Tamako in Moratorium (1 p.m.)

July 26: Wolf Children (10:30 a.m.), Homeland (1 p.m.)

July 27: Wolf Children (10:30 a.m.), Like Father, Like Son (1 p.m.)

Cinematheque

July 29: Momoiro sora o (10:30 a.m.), Tug of War! (1:30 p.m.), Robo-G (4:30 p.m.)

July 30: Kokoro o hitotsuni (10:30 a.m.), Fly, Dakota, Fly! (1:30 p.m.), Until the Break of Dawn (4:30 p.m.)

July 31: Things Left Behind (10:30 a.m.), Casting Blossoms to the Sky (1:30 p.m.), Momoiro sora o (4:30 p.m.)

August 1: Fly, Dakota, Fly! (10:30 a.m.), Hospitalité (1:30 p.m.), A Story of Yonosuke (4:30 p.m.)

August 2: Casting Blossoms to the Sky (10:30 a.m.), Reunion (1:30 p.m.), The Kirishima Thing (4:30 p.m.)

August 3: Hospitalité (10:30 a.m.), Robo-G (1:30 p.m.), Things Left Behind (4:30 p.m.)

Ayala Center Cebu

August 6: Homeland (7 p.m.)

August 7: Wolf Children (7 p.m.)

August 8: Tamako in Moratorium (7 p.m.)

August 9: Wolf Children (4:30 p.m.), Like Father, Like Son (7 p.m.)

August 10: Tamako in Moratorium (4:30 p.m.), Homeland (7 p.m.)

Source: http://www.jfmo.org.ph/arts-and-culture