JAPANESE Food, are this year’s main attraction for all
the movies featured in EIGA SAI, the highly anticipated Japanese Film Festival
starting July 10 to 19, 2015, happening in Shang Cineplex of Shangri-La Plaza
Mall in Mandaluyong City.
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| The movies for this year's EIGA-SAI. |
During the presscon of the said festival last June 23, we
were told that around eleven films are being shown, that offers flavor, food
and taste of Japan. Aside from the usual Shangri-La venue, EIGA-SAI is now a
national event, it is travelling to some key cities such as Quezon City, Davao
City and Cebu. After the presscon the
movie “Parasyte” had its Philippine Premiere.
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| EIGA SAI movies for 2015. |
Screening in FDCP Cinematheque in Davao is on July 14 to
19, Abreeza Mall Cinema still in Davao are scheduled July 24 to 26, UP Film
Institute is on August 12 to 15, Ayala Center Cinema in Cebu City is on August
19 to 23.
I am attending this Festival for four years now and I must
say that this year's line up of movies are all worth watching, plus the fact
that it remain free to public unlike other Film Fest in country that charge
cinephiles like me. Among its rooster of
movies this years are Our Family, Wood Job, Thermae Romae II, plus
documentaries like The God of Ramen, Wa-shoku (Beyond Sushi) and a lot more.
To add prestige to it, the film maker behind “Our Family”
Mr.Yayu Ishii is also present during the scheduled opening this coming July 9,
2015. Mr.Ishii is scheduled to talk about his masterpiece at the Lopez Center
Studio in Ateneo De Manila University on July 10 at 3 in the afternoon.
EIGA-SAI is brought to you by The Japan Foundation in
cooperation with Embassy of Japan, Tokyo International Film Festival,
Shangri-La Plaza Mall, Up Film Institute and the Film Development Council of
the Philippines.
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| List movies and screening schedules. |
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