Screenings of Japanese Films at Hot Docs Cinema

On Jan. 13, the screenings of Japanese films at Toronto’s Hot Docs Cinema, co-hosted by The Japan Foundation, Toronto, and the Consulate-General of Japan, opened with Consul-General of Japan Takako Ito in attendance to give remarks. The films being screened that day were When the Curtain Rises, directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, and Survival Family, directed by Shinobu Yaguchi, with 252 and 375 people in attendance respectively.

Also that day, Shoji, which won the top prize in the We Heart Canada + Japan 90 project during the Vancouver Asian Film Festival, and Medals with Memories Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Japan Video Topics series were screened.

On Jan. 19, a screening was held in the same theatre of Close-Knit, directed by Naoko Ogigami.