Win free tickets to see ‘Confessions’ (Kokuhaku) by Tetsuya Nakashima

Win free tickets to see ‘Confessions’ (Kokuhaku) by Tetsuya Nakashima (‘Kamikaze Girls’, ‘Memories of Matsuko’) at the ICA!

Following the critical acclaim of his previous features, ‘Kamikaze Girls’ and ‘Memories Of Matsuko’, genre-busting auteur Tetsuya Nakashima returns with Confessions, a notably darker but equally absorbing and typically idiosyncratic work, this time adapted from the award winning debut novel by Kanae Minato.

http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/confessions

Written and directed by Nakashima, Confessions has been selected at Japan’s official entry in the Best Foreign Film category of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (the final list of nominees will announced on 25th January 2011) and received great acclaim when it received its UK premier screening at this year’s Film4 Frightfest All-Nighter in October at London’s Empire Cinema.

Reigning in his impulse to create surreal candy-coloured worlds full of chaos and confusion, with Confessions Nakashima opts instead for an intense drama throbbing with dark emotions and powered by a savage central performance. Confessions (cert. 15) is released by Third Window Films and will open at selected UK cinemas on 18th February 2011.

Third Window Films is one of the leading distributors of contemporary Japanese cinema in the UK. Every year Third Window aims to further expand the UK audience’s knowledge of Japanese cinema through a large variety of Japanese titles. Previous releases have been titles such as ‘Memories of Matsuko’, ‘Kamikaze Girls’, ‘Fine Totally Fine’, ‘Kakera: A Piece of Our Life’, ‘Fish Story’ and more. In 2011 we will be releasing ‘Confessions’ the latest from ‘Memories of Matsuko’ director Tetsuya Nakashima, Gen Takahashi’s police corruption epic ‘Confessions of a Dog’, ‘Cold Fish’- Sion Sion’s follow up to ‘Love Exposure’ and many more. For more information please go to http://www.thirdwindowfilms.com

Competition

Third Window Films has kindly given the Japan Society 3 pairs of tickets to attend their screenings of Confessions which opens at the ICA on 18th February 2011. To celebrate its re-release of on blu-ray, Third Window Films have also given us 3 copies of ‘Memories of Matsuko’ for 3 lucky runner ups.

To enter – simply send your name, email address and daytime telephone number to john.toppon@japansociety.org.uk by 5.30pm on Monday 31st January 2011 with “Confessions Competition” in the subject line. If you do not have email, please telephone the Japan Society office on 020 7828 6330. The winner will be chosen at random and notified accordingly. Tickets will be available to pick up from the box office on the day.

Also there will be a special one-off screening of ‘Confessions of a Dog’ (http://thirdwindowfilms.com/films/confessions-of-a-dog) at the ICA on Feb 16th. The director will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

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