Japenese Film Festival: The Hidden Blade
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Time: 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Event Types: Arts & Theatre
Cost: Free
Description:
The special showing of The Hidden Blade is the final film of the Japanese Film Festival. Three films in total will be shown with English subtitles.
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan (Unasaka) to take an important position within the shogunate in far away Edo. Munezo has lived modestly with his mother and sister Shino after his father was forced into suicide after the failure of a bridge project. Kie, a farm girl serves them as a maid in their house.
As time passes, Munezo's sister marries Samon, his mother dies, Kie is married into a merchant family, and he is required to learn western methods of warfare such as the use of artillery and firearms from an official sent from Edo. Learning that Kie is ill due to abuse, he rescues her from her husband's family. Although sharing mutual affection and respect, a marriage between Munezo and Kie is still impossible due to different castes...
This film is rated R.
The Japanese Film Festival is sponsored by John & Mihoko Lanier with support from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech.
For more information, visit: http://www.thelyric.com/events/?ID=1130
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