Japanese Film Selection 2021 – Awaken Your Passion

EVENT DESCRIPTION

This year, from 19th to 21st November, the Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong and The Japan Foundation are collaborating with MCL Cinemas to present the Japanese Film Selection 2021 – Awaken Your Passion to showcase Japanese films to a Hong Kong audience. As a part of the Japan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong – Rediscovering Nippon, the Selection will screen 4 films in total. Tickets are now available, while a souvenir gift will be provided with each completed questionnaire.

Among the 4 films presented in the selection, AWAKE, starring “national treasure class handsome guy” YOSHIZAWA Ryo, will be shown for the first time in Hong Kong. The director of ON- GAKU: Our Sound spent seven years producing the hand-drawn animation, which has won awards internationally. Through Shape of Red, adapted from the novel Red, famous director MISHIMA Yukiko explores the meaning of marriage. Voices in the Wind, gently soothes the audience through the eyes of young girl and the people and events she encounters on her way home. There will be a post- screening talk after the showing of ON-GAKU: Our Sound.

All 4 films will be screened from 19th to 21st November at “K11 Art House”, located on Level 4 of K11 MUSEA, Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, (MTR East Tsim Sha Tsui Station Exit J). Website ticketing: https://bit.ly/3jFdUYe; App Ticketing: MCL Cinemas – Ticketing; Cinema Ticketing: K11 Art House Box Office or K11 Art House Automatic Ticketing Machines.

About Japan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong
Following great success in 2016, the Consulate General of Japan in Hong Kong is proud to
present, together with other Japanese cultural organisations, schools, enterprises and local government, as well as various Hong Kong and third-party enterprises, the “Japan Autumn Festival in Hong Kong – Rediscovery Nippon” from October to November every year, introducing a series of Japanese culture-related activities.