Short Shorts Japanese short movies

Asiatiska FilmFestivalen and Östasiatiska Museet are thrilled to collaborate with Japanese film festival Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (SSFF & ASIA) whose program team selected 4 short films specially for the audience in Stockhom, with the team “Art and Beaty”.

⋅BECOMING YAMAZUSHI
A Japanese-American rapper from North Carolina discovers how art can champion cultural liberation as he takes us on the poetic journey of Yamazushi.

Length: 14 min
Country: USA
Genre: Non-Fiction
Year of production: 2022
Language: English, Japanese – English text

⋅UNTITLED av Takuya Shimada (5 min)
Suffering from autism, Shinichi Sawada (Shin-chan) found he was gifted at pottery. It is a documentary film to raise a question about how to support disabled people, through the interview with Masaharu Iketani (age 90) who has given Shin-chan the environment to work on ceramics and has supported him.

Length: 4.14 minutes
Country: Japan
Genre: Documentary
Production year: 2022
Language: Japanese, English text

⋅THE IZAKAYA DIALOGUE av Hisato Michigami (25 min)
Swedish student Mark finds himself disillusioned by the conformity around him in Japan. But his life changes when he crosses paths with Yuuka, who works at a quaint izakaya in Akasaka, Tokyo, and who poses him a question about happiness, triggering an unconventional challenge between the two.

Duration: 25 min
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
Year of production: 2022
Language: Japanese, English text

⋅THE OLD WOMAN SKIN av Hiroki Inoue (20 min)
“I don’t like to be told I’m beautiful.”
Before going to Tokyo from her hometown of Mishima, Fukushima Prefecture, Kyoko stopped by at Tsuchiyu Onsen and was handed an “old woman’s skin.” This allowed her transform herself into an old woman, enabling her to find out what’s truly in the heart of the man she cares about …

Length: 19.56 minutes
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama
Year of production: 2021
Language: Japanese, English text

Total running time : 64 min

🎟 Ticket: 100 kr
with the museum’s year card: 50 kr

Place: East Asian Museum, Tyghusplan, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: 50 – 100 SEK
Date: 24. 09. 2023
Time: 14:00

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