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1pm» Special Double Screening: GANTZ & GANTZ Perfect Answer

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7pm» Movie Night: The Makioka Sisters

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9am» JCCC Ski Day

26 (Week 09)
2pm» Kimiko Koyanagi Doll Exhibit Opens (until April 3)

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Time:

1:00pm

Description:

Due to popular demand, GANTZ Perfect Answer (2011), the sequel to GANTZ, is coming to the JCCC. This movie adaptation of the popular sci-fi action comic is directed by Shinsuke Sato and stars Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Kenichi Matsuyama (DEATH NOTE, Norwegian Wood). If you missed the first screening of GANTZ, here is your chance! The JCCC will be presenting a special double screening of GANTZ and GANTZ Perfect Answer on Sunday February 5, 2012. In Japanese with English subtitles. Rated PG 13 for violence.
In the thrilling conclusion to the GANTZ saga, Kuruno (Kazunari Ninomiya) races to earn 100 points to save his dear friend Kato (Kenichi Matsuyama), as similar forces move against the mystery that is GANTZ. Meanwhile, GANTZ has chosen the next target: Tae (Yuriko Yoshitaka), a human girl who is in love with Kurono. Other GANTZ members and GANTZ alumni are called in for this assignment, all with different motives leaving Kurono with a critical decision to make.

Date: Sunday February 5, 2012
Time: GANTZ – 1:00pm
GANTZ Perfect Answer – 4:00pm
Admission: Both movies $14, $10 (JCCC Members) One movie $8, $6 (JCCC Members)

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

The Makioka Sisters is director Kon Ichikawa’s telling of Junichiro Tanizaki’s Sasameyuki, one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century. In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing - a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family, and an entire society, sliding into the abyss of modernity.
Starring Keiko Kishi, Yoshiko Sakuma , Sayuri Yoshinaga, and Yuko Kotegawa.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Date: Thursday February 23, 2012
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $8 General, $6 JCCC members

Time:

9:00am

Description:

Everyone is invited - Nikkei, Ijusha and friends of the community. You can ski in English – you can ski in Japanese. The important thing is to join in and have fun!
The common language is snow, laughter and hot chocolate!
We will meet at the JCCC, jump on a bus and head up to Blue Mountain. We have a group discount so it is much cheaper than driving up by yourself and paying for you own lift ticket. Equipment rentals are available at the resort.
Reserve your spot soon because seats on the bus are limited! The date is Saturday February 25, 2012. For more information, please see ad on p.12 or call 416-441-2345 to register.

Time:

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Description:

I grew up in the family business, helping to make doll heads – something I was allowed to do. On March 2, the girls' school I was attending was bombed and the students were evacuated to Chiba Prefecture – I went there because I knew that otherwise, I would have to make bullets like other girls Tokyo was fire-bombed a week later on March 9…

Kimiko Koyanagi’s figurative sculptures and the doll-making legacy of Japan’s Muraoka Family are the focus of this exhibition project at the JCCC.This exhibition is a strong reflection of the JCCC Gallery’s mandate to provide a context for presenting and examining work by Japanese Canadian and Japanese artists. The artists (all members of the Muraoka family) are rooted in the craft of traditional Japanese doll-making. The collective range of their individual practices, however, provides the opportunity for us to look at both the rich influence of their shared traditional training and the personal inventiveness that they apply to it. Kimiko Muraoka Koyanagi is a third-generation member of the Muraoka family of doll-makers. She immigrated to Canada forty years ago, and has produced a large and distinguished body of work that features solitary, elongated, female figures. They’re made in the traditional way – a painstaking process in which she mixes finely-ground paulownia wood shavings, with paste and rice paper, then carves and sands the hardened medium. The figures are coated with a blend of sea-shell paste and watercolour.
Koyanagi has arranged for the participation of her two surviving siblings (of eight – all doll-makers), Shigeru Muraoka (Tokyo) and Michiko Stone (California), as well as 4th generation doll-makers, Fumihiko and Kazuhiio Muraoka (Tokyo). There will be 40 – 45 dolls in the exhibition, over half of which are by Koyanagi. She will exhibit new pieces, as well as selected works from her collection and from private collections in Toronto.
The exhibition is an homage to the tradition of doll-making and its continuing evolution.
An important part of this project is the promotion of appreciation for what is fast becoming “a lost art”, as Koyanagi describes it. In Japan, there are few traditional doll-makers remaining, and the skills and knowledge of techniques are disappearing. In Canada, her work is esteemed among a small but discerning segment of the general public. There will be an artist’s talk, and a demonstration and workshop (dates TBA). The artists look forward to sharing their knowledge and experience with the Japanese Canadian and the larger community The exhibition is scheduled to coincide with the annual Japanese custom of Girl’s Day (Hina Matsuri), when a tiered platform of dolls is displayed at the JCCC lobby. And, during the 2012 March school break, Nikkei Kid’s Day will feature a doll-making theme.
Although Kimiko Koyanagi has an impressive background of exhibitions and public attention (she was featured on Veronica Tennants’ Arts & Entertainment series of artist profiles on CBC TV) there is a wide lack of understanding of what she and her family do. This project aims to address this situation by working in conjunction with the community framework of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to focus attention to an important artist and the tradition she works in.
"The house was near the Arakawa River. My father’s responsibility was to take care of the neighbourhood/district. He and my eldest brother stayed. They couldn’t see anything because the smoke was so dense. All the houses were on fire, and burned down. Except our house, which survived even though the walls were scorched. So, many people came to stay – it was like a refugee camp and there was no food. My father and younger brother brought rice and tried to feed them. Then, for two or three years everyone moved to Chiba. No doll-making."

Opening Reception: Sunday February 26 2:00pm-5:00pm. Everyone welcome.