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Auckland Film Society Live Performance with Japanese silent film

27 May 2005
Auckland Film Society Special Event Monday 30 May, 6:30 pm Village SKYCITY Broadway, 77 Broadway, Newmarket Classic silent film with Japanese benshi-style narration performed by Dr Tomoko…

Auckland Film Society Special Event
Monday 30 May, 6:30 pm
Village SKYCITY Broadway, 77 Broadway, Newmarket

Classic silent film with Japanese benshi-style narration performed by Dr Tomoko Shimoda.
Dr Shimoda is a former television announcer in Japan and currently teaches at the school of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland

I Was Born, But - Umarete wa mita, keredo -
Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1932. Japanese and English intertitles
http://www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz/movies/born.html

Auckland Film Society Special Event
Monday 30 May, 6:30 pm
Village SKYCITY Broadway, 77 Broadway, Newmarket

Classic silent film with Japanese benshi-style narration performed by Dr Tomoko Shimoda.
Dr Shimoda is a former television announcer in Japan and currently teaches at the school of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland

I Was Born, But - Umarete wa mita, keredo -
Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1932. Japanese and English intertitles
http://www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz/movies/born.html

Classic silent film with Japanese benshi-style narration performed by Dr Tomoko Shimoda.
Dr Shimoda is a former television announcer in Japan and currently teaches at the school of Asian Studies at the University of Auckland

Presented with the support of Creative New Zealand and the Japan Foundation

Memberships and door sales available at the film society table in the cinema lobby 45 minutes before the screening.

Full details at:
http://www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz

Image: I Was Born, But... Yasujiro Ozu, Japan, 1932

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