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From Kikuchi Yumi's Blog and Podcast:

Tokyo Peace Film Festival This Week!
www.peacefilm.net/2008/index.html

It is my great pleasure and joy to announce and invite you to the
5th Tokyo Peace Film Festival, which starts on Friday July 18th,
2008 at 7:15pm with the film Iraq For Sale (In English with Japanese
subtitles).

The doors open at 6:45pm at the National Olympic Youth Center which
is near Sangu-bashi Station on the Odakyu Line, two stops from Shinjuku.
If your Japanese is up to speed, after the film you will be able to listen to a
lecture by the well known researcher Yu Tanaka.

The next day, Saturday July 19th, the doors open 9:30am. The first movie
will start at 10. There will be six films and in the afternoon I will give a talk
on Sept. 11th 2001 and the events surrounding that terrible day. During my
presentation I will show excerpts from some well known 911 films. My talk
will be in Japanese.

Here are the films that will be shown on Saturday.

1: 10:05 Our Daily Bread (Narration in English with Japanese Subtitles)
This is a must see if you would like to know how modern food is actually
produced.

2: 11:55 From Carrot to the Universe (In Japanese only)
A wonderful organic farmer Katsuto Akamine talks about the secrets of
the universe

3: 14:00 Star Wars Returns (In English with Japanese subtitles)
Are you aware that Japan is also planning to join the US initiated Star Wars
program? This is the result of the passing a new Universe Basic Law (Uchu
Kihon Ho) in the Japanese parliament. Watch this film and find out what they
are trying to do without our consent!

4: 14:40 Development with Destruction (In English with Japanese subtitles)
In this expose, a BBC camera crew captures how the natural environment has
been destroyed in Okinawa by the presence of the many US bases as well as
the ongoing public construction and development work. See this link also.

5: 15:25 <>Compassion in Exile (In English with Japanese subtitles)
The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama's and his relatives talk on
his life. Music by Philip Glass.

6: 16:40 9.11 and How War is Created (Talk in Japanese, some film excerpts
contain English) The 'War on Terrorism' which was started in response to the
Sept. 11th 2001 incident is still ongoing with no end in sight. In my presentation
I will be showing short excerpts from a number of films and recorded interviews
with well known 911 Truth researchers. Find out what 9.11 was really about.

7: 18:40 Peace Bed: The US VS John Lennon 2006 (In English with Japanese
subtitles) John and Yoko's amazing story! Their actions for peace still empower
us today. See this link as well.
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The Last Day: Sunday, July 20 starting at 10am, door opens at 9:30am

1: 10:05 Rokkasho Report No.4 (In Japanese only)
After the film the director, Hitomi Kamanaka will give a talk in Japanese

2: 13:10 SPALTPROZESSE (The Nuclear Split) (In German with Japanese subtitles)
Ever since the location of the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant was finally determined
on 4 February 1985, many people have changed their accustomed patterns of life. In
its continuing line of development and its thematic diversity this film provides a profound
insight into the process of landscape and ecologic destruction; and it describes the
intentions behind the construction of a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in terms of atomic
policies. Once loyal citizens have been turned into hesitant radicals. Women civil servants,
housewives and mothers all reveal their awareness of a political and social responsibility
that extends far beyond any initial expression of indignation. This is of great relevance to
Japan's own Rokkasho Mura Nuclear Processing plant in Aomori Prefecture. Check out
Ryuichi Sakamoto's website.

3: 15:15 Iraq (In Japanese)
A behind the scenes look at the war in Iraq. See things the mainstream media will not
cover, including the killing of innocent children and the high cancer rates that have been
blamed on the military's use of depleted uranium weapons.

4: 16:15 Hiroshima Nagasaki (White Light, Black Rain) (In English with Japanese subtitles)
On August 6th and 9th, 1945, two atomic bombs vaporized 210,000 people in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Those who survived are called "hibakusha" -- people exposed to the bomb-- and
there are an estimated 200,000 living today. Today, with the threat of nuclear weapons of mass
destruction frighteningly real - the world's arsenal capable of repeating the destruction at
Hiroshima 400,000 times over, Oscar® award-winning filmmaker Steven Okazaki revisits the
bombings and shares the stories of the only people to have survived a nuclear attack. Steven
spent 25 years making this film.


Download the Tokyo Peace Film Festival Flyer B5/4 pages-PDF2.2MB

Ticket Information--------Tokyo Peace Film Members--------
To become a member you can register (in Japanese only) at the Peace Film Festival Homepage.

Adults (Students)
7/18 (Friday) One day ticket 1,500yen (500yen)
7/18 (Friday) 19 (and Saturday) 2 day ticket 3,000yen (2,000yen)
7/18 (Friday) 20 (Sat, Sunday) 3 day ticket 5,000yen (3,000yen)
(The number of three day tickets available for members is limited to 200)
7/20 (Sunday) Single day ticket (No pre-sales) 2,000yen (1,000yen)

--------General Public--------
No pre-sale tickets available.

Adults (Students)
7/18 (Friday) One day ticket 2,500yen (1,500yen)
7/19 (Saturday) One day ticket 4,000yen (3,000yen)
7/20 (Sunday) One day ticket 3,000yen (2,000yen)

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