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Rectangular Callout: WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING “… highly thoughtful programming has attracted subsequent crowds, with festival attendance growing every year.” - Carla Meyer, Sacramento Bee, 2009 “Japanese Movies at the Crest may be one of Sacramento’s smallest film festivals, but it is also one of the most balanced.” - Bruce Dancis, Sacramento Bee, 2008

Text Box: FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT Friday, July 9, 2010 Time: 8:00 PM DEPARTURES (Okuribito) (2008) Director: Yojiro Takita Winner of 2009 Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film and five major Japanese Academy Awards. A wise, funny, and absorbing movie about an unemployed concert cellist who finds work as a funeral worker. (Japanese with English subtitles). 130 minutes.

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Courtesy of Paul Le

White On Rice

Text Box: Saturday, July 10, 2010 Time: 7:30 PM THRONE OF BLOOD (1957) Director: Akira Kurosawa One of Akira Kurosawa’s great films, Throne of Blood, combines Japanese Noh theatre and the samurai code with Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Considered by many to be the best film adaptation of Shakespeare ever made. (Japanese with English subtitles). 110 minutes.

Throne of Blood

Text Box: Saturday, July 10, 2010 Time: 3:45 PM K-20: LEGEND OF THE MASK (2008) Director: Shimako Sato A film in the spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It is 1949 in Teito (Tokyo) and WWII never took place. A poor circus acrobat climbs buildings and soars from bridges in his quest to bring down K-20 and save the world. (Japanese with English subtitles). 137 minutes.

Text Box: Sacramento Japanese Film Festival

Crest Photo by Paul Le

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Sacramento Japanese

Film Festival

Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church

6929 Franklin Blvd.

Sacramento, CA 95823

(916) 421-1017

Festival Schedule

Festival Schedule

Plaque: OPENING NIGHT JAPANESE BOOK AND CARD BOUTIQUE SALE BEGINNING AT 7:00 PM