*DVD’s will be available for purchase at the screening. Anyone who purchases the DVD will receive an original autographed "press book."

About Cast me if you can:
Cast me if you can tells the story of Hiroshi, a perpetual supporting actor, living in the shadow of his famous playwright father. However fate smiles on Hiroshi when he gets cast in a Woody Allen remake, meets his muse, falls in love and learns to play the lead in his own life.

Cast me if you can has screened at numerous film festivals in Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, Mill Valley, Boston, China, India, and Germany, and has received many awards. It had a nationwide theatrical release in Japan and a novel based on the film has been published. The film combines wit, humor, romance and family relations, in an uplifting comedy that has appealed to audiences around the globe. (trailer & info: wakiyakuthemovie.com/en)
North American DVD : www.amazon.com/Cast-Me-If-You-Can/dp/B0060ANYRA

Comments by festival programmers & jurors:
"A smart, savvy and sophisticated new Japanese comedy which bears favorable echoes of Chaplin, Tati, and the gentle humor of Imamura"
- Karen Davis of the Mill Valley Film Festival, California

"Hiromi’s performance is stellar. She lights up the screen"
- Emmy-award winning juror Mary Lou Belli

"Our audience here in the US thought the film was hysterical and loved it."
- Charlie Prince of Friars Club Comedy Film Festival, New York

About the Guests:
Atsushi Ogata (director): Graduate of Harvard College and MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Nicknamed "Japan’s answer to Woody Allen", Ogata has worked in Holland, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. as a film director, screenwriter, video artist and actor. Eternally Yours, his previous film, was selected for the prestigious New Directors/New Films Festival 2007 in New York (MoMA & the Lincoln Center) and won numerous awards.

Eriko Miyagawa (producer) has worked in production, casting, and art direction on numerous internationally acclaimed films including Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Lost in Translation, Babel, The Kite Runner and The Flowers of War. She is MFA candidate for The Peter Stark Producing Program at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Trailer:

We will have 7 types of entertainment from the erotic world of Japan – Dancing, Cosplay, Erotic Toys, Film, Art, Music, and Special Drinks.

Schedule of performances
8:00 Open – DJs & Go-Go dancers
10:30 Pole dance and S&M show
11:00 Preview of Japan Film Society’s LA EigaFest
11:30 Cosplay Contest
12:00 DJs & Go-Go dancers
1:00 Close

We are screening “Near Equal – Tenmyouya Hisashi” with Art From The Ashes. It’s a documentary about one of Japan’s leading artists Hisashi Tenmyouya.

• Film courtesy of Eleven Arts
• Suggested Donation: $10
• Donations benefit the Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund.

Trailer:

Royal/t special Fish & Chips ($8.00) will be served!
Other food and drinks are also available all day – come enjoy Royal/T menus before our screening!
**This event is a fundraiser for Japan Film Society and part of the profit also goes to Tohoku Earthquake Relief

About Film:
Destroy Vicious（デストロイ ヴィシャス）- This film follows a young man (Masaki Nakai) who is caught in a middle of a bloody conflict touched off by the murder of multiple Yakuza gangsters. On the run, he meets a lonely, hearing-impaired, punk girl (Sayuki Matsumoto) and together they navigate a high-octane chase set amidst both the Japanese crime underworld and the Punk music scene.

Film length: 2 hours (Japanese with English Subtitle)

Trailer:

Director: Kakuei Shimada
Cast: Sayuki Matsumoto
Masaki Nakai
Akio Otsuka
Shungiku Ucida
Minoru Torihada
Naomi Kawase
and
featuring a number of Japanese Punk bands and musicians

Contact:
rsvp@japanfilmsociety.org
www.japanfilmsociety.org
www.royal-t.org

Please check our facebook page and invite your friends who may be interested!

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

LOS ANGELES – Visual Communications is now accepting applications for its10th annual Armed With a Camera Fellowship.  The fellowship fosters the education, training and professional development of up-and-coming Asian Pacific American filmmakers. In doing so, it seeks to shed light on the experiences of communities traditionally underrepresented by visual media.

The fellowship is open to filmmakers under 30-years-old of Asian Pacific descent.  South Asian, Southeast Asian and women filmmakers are strongly encouraged to apply.  From November 2011 to March 2012 Visual Communications will provide the support and resources for ten fellows to each to create a five-minute digital video.  These resources will include:

• $500 cash grant
• Training, workshops and mentoring from industry professionals
• Opportunity for collaborative work with other fellows
• Access to equipment and editing facilities
• World premiere of completed film in the “VC Digital Posse” showcase of the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• All-access pass to films, panels and events of the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
• Opportunity to network with professional filmmakers and Visual Communications staff and supporters

 In the past decade, Visual Communications has supported 70 filmmakers through the fellowship. Last year’s portfolio represents a characteristic diversity of topics. One documentary traces the disappearance of a Filipino-American R&B star.  Another tells the emigration story of a filmmaker’s Vietnamese father.  Several narrative works explore family relationships. In one, a South Asian lesbian woman spends the Hindu New Year with her partner.  In another, a Japanese woman questions her marriage to an American.  Settings range from a World War II battlefield in France to a sci-fi future.

Applications are available at www.vconline.org.

The Armed with a Camera Fellowship is partially funded by the James Irvine Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and the Morgan Stanley Foundation.

About Visual Communications:  Founded in 1970, Visual Communications has a long and prominent history promoting intercultural understanding through the creation, presentation, preservation and support of media works by and about Asian Pacific Americans.

Please contact Daina Solomon (daina@vconline.org or 213 680-4462 ext. 30) for more information.

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Screening of the anime Chocolate Underground (チョコレート・
アンダーグラウンド), directed by Hamana Takayuki (2009), casting the story of chocolate lovers in a futuristic dystopia where Good For You political regime has implemented a “Chocolate Prohibition Law.” It’s Orwell’s 1984 meets prohibition meets … chocolate! Come enjoy the film while celebrating our choco-freedom with a special chocolate menu by Royal/t, a lecture on “Bittersweet Decadence: A Political History of Chocolate” by Japanology Series host Jordan A. Yamaji Smith, tracing the history of chocolate in Japan 18th century Nagasaki prostitutes through post-WWII street urchins to “White Day” decadence. We’ll also be holding a “Truffle Raffle” from local boutique chocolatiers for charity…

Drinks, appetizers, and dinner from 6 PM
Lecture from 7 PM
Film from 7:30 PM

Film Admission: $10
(fundraiser for Japan Film Society and Tohoku Earthquake Relief)

あなたの作品を映画の本場ハリウッドのチャイニーズシアターで上映し、ハリウッド業界関係者や一般アメリカ人観客に見てもらうチャンスです。日本から発信される映画界の若き才能、そして日本人のみならず、日本映画に影響を受けた全てのフィルムメーカーを、Japan Film Societyは応援しています。

LA EigaFest 2011とは近年海外で注目を浴びつつある日本の様々な映画を集めた日本の映画祭をハリウッドで開催する事により、より一層の日本映画の海外での浸透を目 的とした映画祭です。 又、本映画祭の利益の一部を東日本大震災への支援として募金させて頂きます。

詳しくは以下の募集要項をご覧下さい。

LA EigaFest 2011
公募作品募集要項

■ 応募資格、応募条件

• 監督、プロデューサー、主演俳優など、主要スタッフのうち一人は日本人であること。もしくは作品のテーマが日本に関連していること。
• ダイアログが英語以外の場合は英語字幕がついていること。（日本語も含む。）

■ 公募枠

• 1. 短編：２５分以内
• 2. 長編：７０分以上

ジャンルは問いません。

■ 上映について

公募作品が最終審査に残った場合は、１０月初旬までにこちらからメール等でご連絡さしあげます。上映の可否に関するご質問には一切お答えできませんので、ご了承ください。

■ 賞

ザ・ゴールデン・ジパング賞
ハリウッドで影響力のある人物を審査員として招待し、応募作品から大賞を選定します。名称については、マルコ・ポーロが東方見聞録で記している、東の海に浮かぶ黄金と神秘に満ちた国「ジパング」に由来します。

受賞者にはトロフィー、受賞証明書を授与し、作品は映画祭受賞作品として記録されます。また、映画祭への参加が可能な場合、作品上映後にQ&Aの時間を設けます。

その他特別賞や副賞に関しては、随時、ウェブサイトにてアップいたします。

■応募方法

住所、氏名、電話番号、作品名、国名を明記して、 submissions@japanfilmsociety.org までメールをお送りください。応募費用をお支払いいただいた後、応募用紙に必要事項を記入し、審査用のDVDを同封して下記住所までお送りください。

■応募先

Japan Film Society (Submissions)
2029 Century Park East, Suite 1400
Los Angeles, CA 90067, USA

■応募に必要なもの

• 記入済み応募用紙（こちらからPDFファイルをダウンロードしてプリントしてください）
• 審査用DVD（※DVDは返却致しません。必ずコピー素材をお送りください。上映フォーマットもDVDになる場合は、上映用のものをお送りください。又、DVDに作品名、監督名、上映時間を明記してください。）
• プレスキット
1. ２色刷り以上、もしくは白黒の写真（ハードコピー、もしくはデジタル）
2. 作品概要
3. 監督のバイオグラフィー／フィルモグラフィー（他作品がある場合のみ）
4. プロダクションノート

※作品が破損した場合の責任はJFSでは一切負いかねますので、発送方法には十分にお気を付けください。

■応募費用・締め切り

短編：＄20
長編：＄30

第２締切り：2010年9月20日（火）消印有効
短編: $ 30
長編: $ 45

お支払いはこちらからお願いします。

■注意事項

• 音楽、肖像権等のコピーライトは各自で責任を持ってクリアにしてください。法的問題があった際の責任はこちらでは負いかねます。
• 作品の保管には万全を尽くしますが、不測の事故・天災等の責任は負いかねますのでご了承下さい。
• 出品者もふくめ、審査内容についてのお問い合わせには一切お答えできません。
• 18歳未満の出品者に関しましては保護者の方の署名が必要です。

■お問合わせ先

Japan Film Society (Submissions)
Email: submissions@japanfilmsociety.org
Official Website: http://www.japanfilmsociety.org
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/JapanFilmSociety
■ 応募用紙PDFダウンロード

Welcome to Japan Film Society Official Blog! We are thrilled to launch our new blog where you will find fresh and juicy articles focused on Japanese films as well as JFS activities from Los Angeles. Please feel free to share and comment on them as they come up!

Thank you for reading. Stay tuned!!

-R

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JFS and Eleven Arts held a screening of the first three episodes of TRIGUN (the original anime series) at Anime Expo 2011.  The show was packed – apologies to anyone who was not able to get in!  The room seemed pretty pumped up about the upcoming theatrical release of TRIGUN: BADLANDS RUMBLE, so we are expecting a big turnout for these dates in North America.