Hello everyone,

Due to some complications, we are showing
the movie on THURSDAY this week at 6:30
( this week only ).

For this THURSDAY, we are showing a Japanese
movie, "Bushi no ichibun  (Love and Honor)", directed by Yôji Yamada (more details below).  

Hope you can join us. As usual, please
distribute the announcement to anyone
who might be interested.

Regards,

Tom Co

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Title: Bushi no ichibun (Love and Honor)

Date and Time: August 11, Thursday, 6:30-9pm  

Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock

Director: Yôji Yamada

Partial List of Actors:

    Takuya Kimura         ...         
    Rei Dan
    Mitsugoro Bando
    Takashi Sasano
    Kaori Momoi
    Nenji Kobayashi
    Ken Ogata

US Rating: PG-13

Language: Japanese (with English subtitles)

Length: 121 mins

Media: DVD, color

Summary:  ( by www.lunapark.com)
  
  "Shinnojo Mimura is a low ranking samurai.
  His job is to sample the food prepared for
  his clan’s feudal Lord. Shinnojo is married
  and looks forwards to the day he can start
  his own kendo dojo. His life suddenly turns
  upside down when he gets ill from tasting a
  dish prepared for his Lord. Although the dish
  wasn’t poisoned intentionally, the Red Tsubugai
  shellfish was cooked out of season and turned
  toxic. A few days later Shinnojo recovers but
  his eyesight does not.  The young samurai is
  now blind.

  "His wife, Kayo, must now try to take to care
  of Shinnojo’s psyche, as well as to make sure
  they are financially stable. She is pressured by
  his family to ask for the favor of a high ranking
  official who has shown interest for her in the past..."

My Comments:
  
  The last in the "Twilight Samurai" trilogy.  Like the
  other films of Yoji Yamada, there are no great
  prolonged swordfight.  In this case, just one scene
  really.  The interest is mainly  on observations about
  the life of a low level samurai.
  
  The movie is more pensive than other samurai movies.  
  Also, as usual, there are some melodrama.  Direction
  is good and acting are mostly good.  A Japanese period
  film, and one that is a little critical and less nostalgic.

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