WebCalendar

04 (Week 40)
2pm» Issei Day

08
7pm» nikkieFLIX: Pilgrimage

22
7pm» Movie Night: Kaidan

26
7pm» Special Screening: Departures

September 2009
	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
(35)			01	02	03	04	05
(36)	06	07	08	09	10	11	12
(37)	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
(38)	20	21	22	23	24	25	26
(39)	27	28	29	30

November 2009
	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
(44)	01	02	03	04	05	06	07
(45)	08	09	10	11	12	13	14
(46)	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
(47)	22	23	24	25	26	27	28
(48)	29	30

Time:

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Description:

The Board of Directors of the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre extends an invitation to Issei Day on Sunday October 4, 2009 to all who are 70 years of age and older.
This year we are celebrating the 47th anniversary of Issei Day. Last year over 400 Issei, Nisei, Sansei and Ijusha gathered in the Kobayashi Hall to celebrate this annual event.
The day is full of activities, with entertainment of songs, odori and sing-alongs. Please come out and enjoy this special day! As usual there will be a wonderful and tasty bento served during the intermission.
The program begins at 2:00pm and concludes around
5:00 pm. With our growing numbers we would really appreciate pre-registrations at 416-441-2345, but registration is not mandatory to attend the event.
We look forward to seeing you.
Issei Day Committee

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

The film that will be screened on Thursday October 8, 2009 at 7:00pm will be Pilgrimage, a half hour documentary explaining how an annual Japanese American pilgrimage to an abandoned internment camp at Manzanar has become a bigger peace symbol for human and civil rights groups in Southern California.
But the big bonus for the evening will be three short films written and produced by young Japanese Canadian film-makers. One of them, Ken Galloway of Toronto, will be in attendance to show his film and will be available for a question and answer session after the showing. The other two films being shown are from Jeff Chiba Stearns, of Kelowna, B.C. One is titled “What Are You Anyways?” and the other “Yellow Sticky Notes.”
Admission is free but donations will be appreciated.

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

Nakata Hideo, the director of Ring and Dark Water, chose a traditional Japanese ghost story for his 2007 film, Kaidan. Based on a famous 19th-century story by Sanyutei Encho, this eerie and elegant Edo-period piece is stylistically a marked departure from his previous films, though every bit as chilling. A nod to the works of pioneering filmmaker Nakagawa Nobuo, Kaidan evokes the classical horrors of the 1950s and 1960s with its folk tale narration and kabuki romanticism, infusing modern production values with age-old scares. The film both terrifies and enchants with its handsome photography, beautiful art direction, and haunting tale. Appropriately enough, kabuki star Onoe Kikunosuke (Inugamike no Ichizoku) embodies the film's tragic lead, crossing paths with a strong line-up of actresses that includes Kuroki Hitomi (Tokyo Tower), Seto Asako (Death Note), Aso Kumiko (Nada Sou Sou), and Inoue Mao (Gegege no Kitaro).
Years ago, a debt collector was slain by a samurai. Before falling to his death, the debt collector placed a curse on the samurai who went on to kill his wife and himself. Years later, the samurai's son Shinkichi (Onoe Kikunosuke) is now a tobacco seller, and as cruel fate would have it, he falls in love with the debt collector's daughter Toyoshiga (Kuroki Hitomi) who is years his senior. Toyoshiga's jealous nature, however, drives a wedge in their relationship, and he accidentally injures her during a quarrel, inflicting a wound similar to that which killed her father. After she dies, Shinkichi runs off with one of her students (Inoue Mao), hoping to start anew, but Shinkichi can't seem to escape Toyoshiga's resentful spirit and all the women who cycle relentlessly in and out of his life.
Date: Thursday October 22, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $6 JCCC members, $8 non-members

*In Japanese with English subtitles

Time:

7:00pm

Description:

The JCCC and the Japan Foundation is proud to present a special screening of the 2008 Academy Award-winning masterpiece, Departures. The screening will be an especially special event the director, Yojiro Takita, will join us to introduce his film , take questions after the movie and participate in an informal post-film meet-and-greet. Departures also received 10 Japanese Academy Awards.
The films stars Masahiro Motoki as a professional cellist who retuns to his old hometown with his wife and becomes a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.

Date: Monday October 26, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Admission: $8 JCCC Members, $10 Non-members