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Export Event
When: Thursday 21 June 2012, 07:00pm - 11:00pm
Where: Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver
Cost: Adults: $10.50 single bill, $12.50 double bill Students/Seniors: $9 single bill, $11 double bill
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The Powell Street Festival Society and Pacific Cinémathèque are pleased to present the fourth edition of Kibatsu Cinema, a celebration of the odd and the eccentric in Japanese pop culture and contemporary Japanese film.
Kibatsu is a Japanese word denoting a person or thing that is, by ordinary standards, unusual or unconventional. As with previous Kibatsu Cinema programs (2007, 2009, 2011), the quirky, smart, and stylish films on display here reveal the influences of a variety of Japan’s prominent pop-cultural streams, including manga and anime, pop and punk music, and the famed flamboyance of the country’s street fashions and youth cultures. This year added to the mix are a time machine, some battling animated oni (demons), and a lot of quirky introspection. All films are Japanese with English subtitles. Curated by Miko Hoffman.
Thursday, June 21 @ 7:00pm: Summer Time Machine Blues
Youthful energy collides with the theory of relativity in a exhilarating and uplifting comedy about time travel from mega-hit maker Katsuyuki Motohiro. (CANADIAN PREMIERE!)
Thursday, June 21 @ 9:00pm: Hikari + Mariko Rose the Spook
The work of Devi Kobayashi, a leading figure in the Japanese independent film scene, makes its Vancouver premiere tonight with these two comic films.
Kibatsu Cinema takes place every Thursday in June. For more information, please check our forums or see their Facebook event page.