Akita Jumonji Film Festival on the road! Tsuyama - Maniwa - Yokote - Machiamu Screening Collaboration with Tsuyama International Environmental Film Festival for inter-regional exchange

In February of this year, three staff members of the Tsuyama International Environmental Film Festival visited Yokote in conjunction with the Yokote Kamakura Festival.

At that time, films from Tsuyama, "Hormone Woman" and "Tsukinoko of the Sixteen Nights" were screened, and the exchange between the two film festivals started based on the similarities between Tsuyama and Yokote (Tsuyama Basin and Yokote Basin, mountains and rivers, Izumo Highway and Hashu Highway, origins of castle towns in modern times, population size, and heavily historical districts of East and West Tsuyama Castle and Masuda Yokote City). Akita Jumonji Film Festival (Akita Jumonji Film Festival)

The Akita Jumonji Film Festival (Jumonji-cho, Yokote City, Akita Prefecture; Representative: Takayuki Ogawa) has continued to promote film culture in its 32-year history, and has been paying attention to trends in film-based promotion in Tsuyama (Tsuyama International Environmental Film Festival) and neighboring Maniwa (New Garden Film Festival and its prehistory as director Yamazaki's film production). I have been paying attention to the trends of film-based communication in the nearby Maniwa area (New Garden Film Festival and Yamazaki's filmmaking as its prehistory). With this in mind, we will hold the "Tsuyama - Maniwa - Yokote Machi Amu Screening" on May 17 (Fri.) and 18 (Sat.) at the Joto Tsuyama Cinema in the Joto Jouden district of Tsuyama City, with the aim of promoting the appeal of films made in the three areas where film festivals are still alive and well, using the local region as a source of material.

Aerial view of Yokote Castle Town

Aerial view of Tsuyama Castle Town

The mini-theater, which utilizes buildings in the Joto Jyudenken district of Tsuyama City, which is designated as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, will be the venue for "New People" (about a peasant revolt in the Tsuyama domain), a film by director Yamazaki, who runs Victory Theater, a mini-theater that renovates old houses in a shopping district while farming in Maniwa City, and a film about the Jumonji Town of Yokote City, which is the site of a revolt in the Yokote Jyudenken district. The film will be screened together with a series of short films ("Homecoming★Presley" directed by Tasuku Emoto and others) shot entirely on location in Jumonji and Yokote, Yokote City, which was born out of a film festival that has continued for 32 years.

The pioneering film screening event utilizing buildings in the Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings is the "Tochigi-Kura no Machikado Film Festival" in Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture, and in recent years, efforts to utilize traditional buildings and old private houses as mini-theaters have spread nationwide. The combination of locally produced films + local film festival + old private house mini-theater is a deep and innovative feature unique to this project.

Event Outline

Name: "Tsuyama-Maniwa-Yokote Machi amu Screening

　　　　　　　　～Sponsor ：The 3rd Tsuyama International Environmental Film Festival

Sponsor ：Akita Jumonji Film Festival

Co-sponsor ：Akita Jumonji Film Festival Co-sponsor ：Tsuyama Town Design Creation Institute, Executive Committee of the 3rd Tsuyama International Environmental Film Festival

Date/Time: Friday, May 17, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - A & B. Saturday, May 18, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - A & B. Saturday, May 19, 2024, 6:00 p.m. - B

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Saturday, May 18, 2024, 10:00 - C, D,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　5:00 p.m. - E and F

Place: Joto Tsuyama Cinema (21-1 Katsumada-cho, Tsuyama City)

Program: (A, C, E: Jumonji Program)

　　　　　　　　The Town the Swan Comes to" 08 Directed by Toshiki Ayata,

　　　　　　　　The Town Where the Swan Comes From" (2009) Director: Tasuku Emoto, "The Swan Song" (2010) Director: Toshiki Ayata

　　　　　　　　Swan Song" 2010 Director: Ayumu Saito

　　　　　　　　Miss Ringo" 20 years, Director: Tetsuya Okabe

　　　　　　　　(B.D.F.: New People)

　　　　　　　　Shinshiki-min" 14 years, Director: Jiichiro Yamazaki

Admission: 1,000 yen per program, limited to 20 people per screening

Other: Talks by Jumonji Film Festival staff and guests before the last screening on both days.

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Programs】 【Program Introduction

Jumonji Program

Knockout x Jumonji Film Festival Trilogy, etc.

1. "The Town Where the Swan Comes" 2008 Director: Toshiki Ayata

Producer: Hiromi Yagisawa, Masaki Fujiwara, Photography: Yuichi Nagata (JSC), Assistant Director: Masaaki Taniguchi

Cast: Yonosuke Tanaka / Yumeko Matsumoto / Machiko Shigemura / Toshiki Ayata

2. "Homecoming★Presley" 2009 Director: Tasuku Emoto

Producer: Hiromi Yagisawa, Mikiko Yoshimura, Cinematography: Kei Yasuda, Assistant Director: Masaharu Take, Special Cooperation: Kosho Oshida

Cast: Shoichiro Tanigawa / Ayumi Saito / Noriko Eguchi / Bengal / Shiro Shimomoto

3. "Swan Song" 2010 Director: Ayumu Saito

Producer: Keiko Shinme, Mikiko Yoshimura, Photography: Shogo Ueno (JSC), Assistant Director: Masaaki Taniguchi

Cast: Toru Shinagawa / Sanae Miyata / Jun Miho / Taketoshi Sato / Kazue Tsunokae / Akira Emoto

4. "Miss Ringo" 2020 Screenplay/Director: Okabe Tetsuya

Cinematography Shogo Ueno / Sound Mixer Yamato Kato / Production Manager Yuuki Tanaka / Assistant Directors Naoki Watanabe & Maki Mizui / Music GEN / Producers Hirotaka Feng & Masaaki Miyamoto

Cast: Kentaro Akizawa / Soichiro Sambashi / Mami Kamura / Ryotaro Kosaka / Kentetsu Asaka

Set in Yokote City, this is a road movie with a humorous touch that is full of laughter and humanity. Kenji and Yusuke, cash couriers for a local olele scam group, are mistaken for Ishii, a criminal who has absconded with their friends' money, and are pursued by the main suspect, Gouda. In order to escape from Gouda, they run away to the Miss Apple Contest venue. Dressed as women, they enter the contest and end up winning...

The film "Miss Ringo" was shot entirely on location in Yokote Jumonji.

Shinshiki-min (New People)

Shinshiki-min SANCHU UPRISING: VOICES AT DAWN" (2014) Written and directed by Jiichiro Yamazaki

Cast: Naohisa Nakagaki, Kano Kajiwara, Shoichi Honda, Ryo Sato, Shinnosuke Uryu, Keiko Furuuchi, hyslom, Hotaru, Yota Kawase

Run toward the future (tomorrow)!

290 years ago. The film depicts "life that begins by accepting weakness" through the character of Jihei, a farmer, against the backdrop of a revolt that actually took place in Yamanaka (currently Maniwa City) within the Tsuyama clan. The film was later screened at Japan Cuts, the largest Japanese film festival in North America, in New York, where it received a great response as "a period drama reminiscent of Akira Kurosawa's works, but with a new angle. The director is Yamazaki Jiichiro, who continues to make "locally produced, locally produced films" while running a farm in Maniwa. The thoughts and choices of nameless individuals open up the future.

New People" is a film inspired by the Yamanaka Revolt that took place in the Tsuyama Clan.