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John Williams: "Sado Tempest"
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Date: Friday, February 15, 2013
Time: 6:30 p.m. (Talk will start at 7:00p.m.) Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 2F
(access:
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker: John Williams, film director and producer
Moderator: Kyle Cleveland, ICAS Associate Director
Admission: Free (Open to general public)
Language: English
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Overview

Sado Tempest is a Japanese language version of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, set entirely on Sado island. The film uses traditional Japanese culture including Noh Masks and lyrics, Oni Daiko and Sado’s scenery, including the ruins of the Goldmine, the Primal Forest and the Volcanic Coast to conjure up a unique version of Shakespeare’s magical world.

The film began shooting in March 2011, during the coldest winter on the island in fity years, five days before the Tsunami and Earthquake. It was completed late in 2012 and will be released in Eurospace, Shibuya from February 16th, 2013 and then in other cities in Japan.

Director, John Williams, will show clips from this film and his previous films, talk about the production process, his reasons for setting the film on Sado the culture and history of the island, and about the current state of the film industry in Japan.

Speaker

John Williams was born in the UK, and has lived in Japan since 1988. He teaches film and translation at the English department at Sophia University. He has won many awards at international film festivals for his first two Japanese language feature films, Firefly Dreams, 2001 (Ichiban Utsukushi Natsu) and Starfish Hotel, 2007 (Sato Koichi, Kimura Tae). He has also produced and co-produced documentaries and feature films, including Megumi, (dir Mirjam Van Veelen), Miyagino, (dir Tatsuji Yamazaki) and Akane Iro No Yakusoku (2012), (directed by Shohei Shiozaki).

He has worked for METI, running a co-production workshop for Japanese producers, taught film development at the Toho Graduate School of Film Production, and worked as a Development Consultant for Marza Animation Planet. He also runs the independent production company, 100 Meter Films.
http://www.100meterfilms.com

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Robert Dujarric
Director
Kyle Cleveland
Associate Director
Eriko Kawaguchi
Coordinator

Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies
Temple University, Japan Campus
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/