Japanese Film Screening Day in Vaduz on the 21st of October

2023/9/29
As part of the Japanese Film Screening Tour 2023, the films will also be shown in Vaduz this year. In cooperation with the University of Liechtenstein and kindly supported by Neutrik AG, three Japanese films will be shown on Saturday, October 21.
Pre-registration is not necessary and admission is free. All films are in Japanese with English subtitles. 
 
Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023
Location: Universität Liechtenstein, Hörsaal H1, Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse, FL-9490 Vaduz (site map)
Screening Times: Please find the other screening dates and locations in Basel, Zurich, St. Gallen and Bern here.

Neko Ninja


[ Story ]
Kagerota, a rogue ninja, is a wanted man as his clansman believes that he knows the whereabouts of scrolls containing the art of shapeshifting. Kagerota is taking “Father,” an overweight cat, in his bag, whom he believes to be the feline form of his long-disappeared and legendary ninja father Kuze Kenzan. Will he manage to turn “Father” back to his human appearance and escape his pursuers?

[ Staff & Cast ]
Director:
Takeshi Watanabe
Starring: 
Takurô Ôno – Kagerota
Akira Emoto – Kariyazaki
Izumi Fujimoto – Tsubame
Eiichirô Funakoshi – Kenzan

Release in Japan: 2017/color/ 1h 35m
 

Brave Father Online – Our Story of Final Fantasy XIV


[ Story ]
When Akio’s father suddenly quits his job and retires without giving out any explanation to the family one day, Akio gifts him the online game "Final Fantasy XIV", hoping to understand him better by secretly interacting with him as an anonymous online avatar. Little does the young man know what his father is going through...

[ Staff & Cast ]
Directors:
Teruo Noguchi, Kiyoshi Yamamoto
Starring: 
Yui Imaizumi – Kataoka
Minako Kotobuki – Aru (voice)
Kô Maehara – Kensuke
 
Release in Japan: 2019/color/1h 54m
 

The Place Promised in Our Early Days

 

[ Story ]
In an alternate post-war Japan, three teenagers become obsessed with a mysterious tower that soars high into the sky. They build a makeshift aircraft and promise to fly to the tower together one day, but one of them disappears before its completion. A few years later, the tower is suddenly activates and triggers a phenomenon that threatens the world. And the friend who vanished without a trace may hold the key to everything...

[ Staff & Cast ]
Original story, screenplay and director: Makoto Shinkai
Starring: 
Hidetaka Yoshioka – Hiroki Fujisawa (voice)
Masato Hagiwara – Takuya Shirakawa (voice)
Yuka Nanri – Sayuri Sawatari (voice)
 
Release in Japan: 2004/Colour/1hr 31min

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