JACCC Plaza
244 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Free Admission!
Food, family, and fun come together on the JACCC plaza as this year's FilmFest features Gigantor (1964) and the New Treasure Island (1964), two of the finest anime movies to come out of Japan in the early sixties.
Screening 2:
Lower Depth
Saturday, September 1, 2012 1:00 pm
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
$10 General Admission
Akira Kurosawa brilliantly translates Maxim Gorky's 1902 proletariat play to the Edo-period Japan.
Katsudo Shashin (Moving Pictures) presents two films, Lower Depth (1957) by Akira Kurosawa and Osaka Elegy (1936) by Kenji Mizoguchi, which are tributes to the recently deceased Isuzu Yamada (1917-2012). Award-winning actress Yoko Sugi will make a special appearance to introduce these films.
Screening 3:
Showdown In Little Tokyo
Saturday, September 1, 2012 7:00 pm
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
$10 General Admission
Mark Lester's Showdown in Little Tokyo is an action-packed film based in our very own L.A.'s Little Tokyo that follows detectives Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) and Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee) as they track down a Yakuza drug lord Yoshida (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) in hopes of ceasing a growing lethal drug trade.
Screening 4:
Osaka Elegy
Sunday, September 2, 2012 1:00 pm
Aratani/Japan America Theatre
244 South San Pedro Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
$10 General Admission
Both cultural and commercial success, Mizoguchi's Osaka Elegy takes the audience through the life of Ayako Murai (Isuzu Yamada), a young woman who becomes her employer's mistress in order to pay off her father's debt only to be arrested, ostracized by her family, and kicked out of her home.
