Japan Foundation, New York

🔦JFF THEATER SPOTLIGHT🔦
🎸This week's film: The 100th Love with You
Part of Twist of Time

🎤University student Aoi (miwa) aims to make the most of time before leaving for a year-long study abroad program in England. After a disastrous summer festival performance with the five-piece band STROBOSCORP she formed with her childhood friend Riku (Kentaro SAKAGUCHI), Aoi is hit by a truck—only to wake up the week before the accident, thanks to Riku’s power to turn back time. But his time-traveling secret comes at a huge price.

Set in Setouchi area of Japan, this original film directed by Sho TSUKIKAWA (YU YU HAKUSHO, ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS) blends bittersweet romance with time-travel fantasy.

Singer-songwriter miwa stars as Aoi and performs her original songs written for this film.

💻Watch this film for FREE this weekend: https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/movie/100-love-with-you/

JFF Theater｜Moved, Touched & Inspired

🖼️Now on view until Oct. 4: RISD Museum presents The Artistry and Reunion of Two Surimono Albums, an exhibit exploring the stories in two special albums of privately commissioned Japanese woodblock prints compiled in the 1820s to 1830s, reuniting them after almost a century.

Supported through the Exhibitions Abroad Support Program.

🔗About the exhibit: https://ny.jpf.go.jp/event/the-artistry-and-reunion-of-two-surimono-albums/
📝About the program: https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants/exhibitions-abroad-program/


📸: Sakuragawa Jihinari, Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa in the play Shibaraku, ca. 1830. Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 34.366. RISD Museum, Providence, RI.

⏪This week's For Your (Virtual) Shelf is a re-introduction of these origami books! These books include a myriad of unique designs for the crafts-minded of all skill levels. Check out the books in the post below for more info 👇🏼

🩰Award-winning dancer Midori Kashiwagi will present a FREE Japanese dance showcase Wed., 6/3, 7:30pm at the L'Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater, featuring a unique blend of passion and energy.

🎟️RSVP required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/midori-kashiwagi-dance-performance-tickets-1985357009259

🔦JFF THEATER SPOTLIGHT
🐟This week's film: Tsukiji Wonderland
Part of The Japanese Spirit of “DŌ”

“The best seafood in the world comes to Tsukiji.”

🍣Before its closure in 2018, the Tsukiji fish market had served as the world’s largest seafood market for more than 80 years, with around 2,000 tons of fish sold daily. This documentary captures the rhythms of the market over the course of a year by portraying the vibrant atmosphere through interviews with intermediate wholesalers and renowned sushi chefs.

🦐The film meticulously researches the wholesaler profession and how Tsukiji came to be known as the best fish market in the world through the lens of Japan’s unique culinary culture.

💻Watch the film for FREE this weekend!: https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/movie/tsukiji-wonderland/

JFF Theater｜Moved, Touched & Inspired

🚨NEW GRANT PROGRAMS ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

The Japan Foundation, New York is pleased to announce the launch of three new Global Partnerships rolling-basis grant programs:

🎏Grant for Grassroots Exchange: Japan Festivals and Events – supports grassroots, community-driven initiatives that bring Japanese culture to local audiences
🫱🏼‍🫲🏼Grant for Grassroots Exchange: U.S.-Japan Community Networking - supports projects that create and develop networks between the U.S. and Japan
📕Grant for Intellectual Exchange - aims to support a Japan-U.S. collaborative symposium, conference, or workshop that addresses issues of common concern

🔗For more information: https://ny.jpf.go.jp/grants/grants-for-global-partnerships/

With the arrival of warmer weather and festival season comes the perfect time to engage in origami! Beginners and regular origami crafters, children and adults alike will want to take a look at our recs for this week 👇🏼

✂️THIS WEEK’S THEME: Celebrating Spring with Origami
📚THIS WEEK’S BOOKS:
Origami Activities for Children by Chiyo Araki – Featuring 20 crafts organized by seasons and U.S. holidays with varying levels of difficulty. Also perfect for teachers to use in their classroom – https://tinyurl.com/origamiactivitesaraki
10-Fold Origami by Peter Engel – origami enthusiasts will find more than 20 original projects of differing levels that all require less than ten steps to complete, with easy-to-follow instructions, illustrations, and diagrams– https://tinyurl.com/10foldorigamiengel

Origami Games by Joel Stern – this unique book offers suggestions on how to use origami for fun, competitive, and cooperative games and even guides readers on how to create their own - https://tinyurl.com/origamigamesstern

💻Looking for something different? To find & pick your next read, visit: libbyapp.com/library/jf
📇Don't have a library card for the digital library? Learn more on how you can get one here: jflalc.org/libby

The JF USA Digital Library is operated in partnership with The Japan Foundation, Toronto & The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles　国際交流基金ロサンゼルス日本文化センター

Film Movement and IFC Center present RENOIR, Chie Hayakawa’s sophomore feature. This Cannes Festival Film Festival Official Selection is a tender, unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl.

🎬Director Hayakawa will also be present for post-screening Q&As on 5/29 & 5/30.

🎟️On sale now for IFC Center screenings, beginning 5/29: https://www.ifccenter.com/films/renoir/

🎞️On Friday, 5/29, 7:30 pm: the George Eastman Museum will present the “Japanese Paper Film Project.” This FREE ticket event will include a brief introduction by project founder Prof. Eric Faden (Bucknell University), followed by an hour-long screening of rare 1930s Japanese Paper Films feat. live accompaniment by award-winning -cello pair Duo YUMENO 夢乃.

🎟️Tickets available now: https://www.eastman.org/event/free-all-talks-film-screenings-special-events/japanese-paper-film-project

⏪For this week's JFF Theater Spotlight, we're traveling back in time and re-recommending SAGRADA RESET Part 1! Check the post below for more info on this live-action adaption of a cult classic 👇🏼