Global Recognition –The series of award winning Japanese films-

“Global Recognition” is the series of screenings of the Japanese films, which are praised at film festivals in foreign countries.
Two films, “Lost & Found” and “Locked Out” were chosen for the first series. They are both awarded at the festival in North America.
The screening will be starting on Feb. 27th 2010.
Since they are award-winning films from the foreign festivals and the venue is in Roppongi area, we’d like to have several screening with English subtitles for the foreign audeinece.

Date & Time:
Screening Scehdule
From Feb. 27th to Mar. 19th, 2010 / Starting at 8:00PM

Dates of The screenings with English subtitles
Locked Out
Starting at 8:00PM on Mar. 3rd, 11th, 17th, 2010
Lost & Found
Starting at 8:00PM on Mar. 4th, 10th, and 14th, 2010

Location:
Cinemart Roppongi
Address
3-8-15 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Access
Roppongi Stn.
(Oedo) 3min. Go out Exit 5 and turn right into a narrow road. Walk to the end of the road, head left and turn right at the next intersection. Cinemart Roppongi is the second building on the left.
(Hibiya) 3min. From Exit 3, head right to a large intersection. Cross the road and head right. Turn into the second road on the left, walk straight and Cinemart Roppongi will be at the end of the road.

Website(Japanese Only)
www.gr-movie.jp

『Locked Out』

- The Best Foreign & Horror Film at The New York International Independent Film Festival 2009

Story
A hurried mother busy with a million things at once, Shoko is trying to cope with her six-year-old son Keita at the supermarket. She tells him to stay put in the car while she goes back to pick something up; he secretly slips out, however, stealing some change from the car to get a snack expressly forbidden to him earlier. Prize in hand, he rushes back before mom returns. He manages to get back just in time, and hides the snack in the glove compartment as he spies Shoko approaching some ways off. However, she passes him by without noticing. Keita starts to see that something is wrong: his mother's car and Hiroshi's are exactly the same...

Crew & Cast
Writer & Director: Yasunobu Takahashi
Cast: Kiichi Sonobe, Miho Ogata, Takeru Shimada, Keisaku Kimura, Tomomi Miyashita, Noboru Akima

Review
"LOCKED OUT" pulls me in deep into the breath of its life. I tremble watching this film. Yasunobu Takahashi is a beautiful and gifted director. Kiichi Sonobe and Takeru Shimada the boy who plays "Keita" and all the actors hold my heart in their hands
throughout."
- Amanda Plummer

『Lost&Found』

- The Best Narrative Picture at Austin Film Festival 2008

Story
A rural train station in Japan is the setting for this charming and sad story. The lives of the denizens of this station, from the lovelorn to the lonely, all intersect in and around the lost and found department. Shot with an incredible grace, and with wonderfully subtle and human performances by an ensemble cast, Miyake’s feature is a tale of human bonds and the need for connection.

Crew & Cast
Director: Nobuyuki Miyake
Writers: Maki Arai, Nobuyuki Miyake
Cast: Shun Sugata, Tomoyuki Hatanaka, Moeki Tsuruoka, Kahori Fujii, Masahiko Sakata

Review
A few personal items lost at a rural train station provide the links to connect a variety of characters that might not otherwise realize the other exists in this poetic Japanese import from writer/director Nobuyuki Miyake. Achingly sad, yet astonishingly lovely, Miyake’s tender film features many lithe performances that could have easily devolved into intransigent melancholy. Instead, the gentle pacing, the natural light, the clean images, the austere colors make you sink into every moment of this film. No image, no glance, and no movement is superfluous. Even a constantly simmering teapot kept by an aging officer at the lost and found office manages to swell with meaning and provides a centering image for the viewer to return to. If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s not the singsong adage that a stranger is just a friend you haven’t met, but that the singularly human experience echoes through everyone in a thousand different ways.
- The Austin Chronicle

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Contact
Nobuyuki Miyake
Gazebo Film Inc.
5-28-3-205 Daita Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0033
TEL & FAX: 03-5948-5890
MOBILE: 090-3706-2134
E-MAIL: bob@gazebofilm.jp