Japanese Film Showing - Kishiwada Bad Boys

Join us for the 2011 Japanese film evenings! All films are held at the University of Auckland Library Building Lecture Theatre 109-B15 and the University of Waikato, Lecture Theatre 3. We hope that you will enjoy the films and gain a deeper insight into various aspects of Japanese society.

September film: "Kishiwada Bad Boys" (Comedy, 1996, 106min, M, Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu)

Boys be ambitious.

Kazuyuki Izutsu directs this film about gangs, layabouts, and the downwardly mobile, based on the autobiographical novel by truck-driver turned author Riichi Nakaba.

Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighbourhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending series of fights and reprisals against rival gangs landing them in trouble with organised crime and in the juvenile court.

Admission free! No booking required. All welcome.
English sub-titles.

Presented by The Consulate-General of Japan, The University of Auckland, The University of Waikato, and The Japan Culture Centre, Sydney (The Japan Foundation).

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