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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

The Japan Society is proud to co-present Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Still Walking at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival, April 23 to May 7, 2009.

The arrival of a new film by director Hirokazu Kore-eda is an eagerly anticipated event among cinephiles for whom this remarkably nuanced chronicler of Japanese life, loss and longing is now firmly established as a contemporary master of cinema at its most lyrical and emotionally satisfying. Over the course of a languorous summer afternoon, elderly parents host their two children—boisterous spouses and offspring in tow—for a commemoration of beloved son and sibling Junpei’s tragic death 15 years earlier. With its perfect performances and quiet build-up of fleeting pleasures—the flight of a yellow butterfly, the sizzle of frying tempura—Still Walking resonates long after twilight descends upon the Yokoyama clan, whom viewers will love—and begrudge—as their own. –Steven Jenkins

The film screens on May 3 at 8:45PM and again on May 5 at 6:30PM at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas.

For tickets and information visit the San Francisco Film Society’s website at www.sffs.org, or call 925-866-9559.

For more information about Still Walking click here.