Survivors from the friends of Hibakusha will speak in Q &A after the screening.

★Part of the ticket sales will be directly donated to Friends of Hibakusha in Japantown. The U.S. does not currently offer free medical treatment programs for atomic bomb-affected individuals; Japan does.

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8/13 (Sat) & 8/14 (Sun) @ 2pm

“Valor With Honor” a new independent documentary feature on the last interviews of veterans that served in the WW2 Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The 442nd is the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the history of the US Army. All Japanese American vets will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal this fall 2011. 30 min Q&A after the screening and dvds (25$ each) sold after the Q&A. www.valorwithhonor.com

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8/13 (Sat) @ 5:15 pm

This national Emmy award winner is the story of the incarceration of Japanese Americans, told through the experience of one family, touching on many issues: the trampling of civil rights, a generation’s loss of a lifetime’s work, the fissures created in a formerly strong, vital community, the drafting of young men from the camps, the racist loyalty questionnaire, and a hard look at the American system of law and the constitution. Q&A after the screening with Director Emiko Omori.
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8/13 (Sat) @ 7:30pm

The love affair began in a seedy Southern California beach town arcade in the 1950s. He was ten. The lurid, sexual, surreal and outsider reputation of tattoos were an instant draw for fifth grader Don Ed Hardy, a Lutheran white boy from a surfing town. He saw his calling in the mystical images of pierced hearts, flaming eyeballs and bloody skulls. After art school, he rejected a scholarship to Yale University to pursue his childhood obsession – tattoos. His art is a wild cross cultural “mash up” of traditional military and carnival imagery, and art from Japan, China, Latin America, and Polynesia. Part memoir, part tattoo history, Ed Hardy Tattoo the World chronicles his rise to cult status, his phenomenal influence on popular culture and, now, an immensely successful clothing brand. Q&A after the screening. www.edhardytattootheworld.com/ | Watch Trailer >>

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8/14 (Sun) @ 5:15 pm

This is the story of the ten year struggle to save the International Hotel, known as the I Hotel, home of elderly seniors, mostly elderly Philippinos. Community activists tried hard to ward off the wrecking ball but in the end, these people were brutally evicted and the hotel torn down. This is a powerful film of how corporate interests prevailed over an ethnic community and destroyed what had been the heart of Manilatown.
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8/14 (Sun) @ 7:45 pm

What begins as a straightforward documentary on an elderly homeless artist in New York City becomes an indictment of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. The artist, Jimmy Mirikitani, also endures the devastation of 9/11, and this film is a quirky, moving tale of losing “home” on many levels. Q&A after the screening – to be announced.
www.thecatsofmirikitani.com

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Considered by some to be Akira Kurosawa’s greatest achievement, Ikiru presents the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of a man’s death. Takashi Shimura portrays Kanji Watanabe, an aging bureaucrat with stomach cancer forced to strip the veneer off his existence and find meaning in his final days. Told in two parts, Ikiru offers Watanabe’s quest in the present, and then through a series of flashbacks. The result is a multifaceted look at a life through a prism of perspectives, resulting in a full portrait of a man who lacked understanding from others in life.

Tickets $12

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“Quite simply one of the greatest of filmmakers,” said Jean-Luc Godard of Kenji Mizoguchi. And Ugetsu, a ghost story like no other, is surely the Japanese director’s supreme achievement. Derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, this haunting tale of love and loss—with its exquisite blending of the otherworldly and the real—is one of the most beautiful films ever made.

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Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from traditional Japanese ghost stories, this lavish, widescreen production drew extensively on Kobayashi’s own training as a student of painting and fine arts. Criterion is proud to present Kwaidan in a new ravishing color transfer.

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100% of proceeds will be donated to EARTH DAY TOKYO TOWER of Japan. Earth Day Tokyo Tower Volunteer Center started its activities In response to the Northeastern Japan’s tsunami and earthquake devastation on March 11, 2011. The group sends volunteers into the devastated area to clean up, make food, hold events to cheer up children, setting up food courts, and more. The weekend volunteers are sent to the hard hit regions on buses running on used tempura oil.

Based on the bestselling comic. Table tennis to the extreme!
Best friends Peco and Smile have been playing ping pong since they were little kids. While the unique and brazen Peco plays to win and loves the sport, the quiet and introverted Smile thinks of it as just a way to kill time with friends, but plays only because he looks up to Peco as his hero. And though Smile is the more talented player, he frequently and intentionally loses to Peco out of a misguided sense of friendship.