Film Screening:

Dog in a Sidecar
(Negishi Kichitaro, 2008, 94 min, Japanese w/ English subtitles, Color, 35mm)

-- Introduced by APSI's director, Prof. Simon Partner!

Dog in a Sidecar, Negishi Kichitaro's subtly nuanced, strikingly acted summer's tale about a little girl whose horizons are expanded by her encounter with a free-spirited young woman, unfolds in sharply-etched detail from a child's-eye view. Based on Yu Nagashima's novel, the unpretentious coming-of-age story basks in the kind of phenomenological observation and understated epiphanies most literary adaptations leave on the page, helped greatly by Yuko Takeuchi's award-showered performance as the girl's guide. Within its nostalgia-tinged reverie, the film packs a quietly subversive punch.

-- Winner of the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress (Takeuchi Yuko)!

-- Part of the Japan Foundation Film Series within CIne-East.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES). Made Possible by the Japan Foundation (NY Office).