Japanese film has a market with Seattle. Each year, the Seattle International Film Festival shows off some of the best of what Japan cinema has to offer. It is great to see more Japanese actors visit Seattle for their theatrical releases as well, evidenced by SMAP superstar, Kimura Takuya, visiting for the screening of the samurai movie Love and Honor last year.
This year, Academy award winning moving, Okuribito is seeing an extended release following its splash at the Seattle International Film Festival at Seattle's Landmark Seven Gables Theatre. Plus, the film Manhole Children by Yoshio Harada was awarded Special Jury Prize out of 54 documentaries that were screened at this year's festival. Having seen the movie, it plays like the NHK documentary it was made for. Great camera work. Amazingly set in a backdrop this is so new, that you can't help but soak it all up. The city. The desert. The wind. The cold. That "one guy" doing the same narration for every documentary you have ever seen on NHK (and didn't pay for when the NHK person came to your door, too. Right?) Incredibly powerful, gut wrenching movie.
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