{"id":11022,"date":"2018-02-25T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T04:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/jss-newsletter-vol-6-no-1-march-2018\/%e6%98%a0%e7%94%bb%e3%83%ac%e3%83%93%e3%83%a5%e3%83%bc%ef%bc%88%e6%97%a5%ef%bc%89%e3%80%8e%e5%85%89%e3%80%8f\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:17:59","slug":"movies-radiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/jss-newsletter\/jss-newsletter-vol-6-no-1-march-2018-en\/movies-radiance\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIES: \u82f1 Radiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Foundation, Toronto<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/word-image-21-1.jpeg\" width=\"274\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/word-image-21-1.jpeg 571w, https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/word-image-21-1-215x300.jpeg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><br \/>\nDirected by Naomi Kawase, 2017, 101 minutes<br \/>\nMarch 8<sup>th<\/sup> is International Women\u2019s Day and March is also Women\u2019s History Month, and what better way to celebrate this than watching films by Japanese women.<br \/>\nRadiance is the stunning new film by director Naomi Kawase.\u00a0 The film is a beautiful drama about an encounter between two lost and wounded souls.\u00a0 Misako (Ayame Misaki) is able to capture the beauty of cinema through her words, and shares this special gift by writing concise audio descriptions of films for the visually impaired.\u00a0 The photographer Nakamori (Masatoshi Nagase) is going through a difficult point in life as he gradually loses his sight.\u00a0 The two are brought together as Misako\u2019s cinematic poetry helps to shine light through the film and slowly win the hearts of the two main characters.<br \/>\nRadiance was nominated for the Palme d\u2019Or at the 2017 Cannes. At Cannes, it won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.<br \/>\nOther critically acclaimed films directed by Naomi Kawase are; Shara (2003), The Mourning Forest (Jury Grand Prix, 2007), Hanezu (2011), Still the Water (2014) and Sweet Bean (Un Certain Regard 2015).<br \/>\nThe film screening is taking place at the Japan Foundation, Toronto on Thursday March 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018 at 6:30 PM (Free Admission)<br \/>\nTo RSVP please go to &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/jftor.org\/event\/radiance\/\">http:\/\/jftor.org\/event\/radiance\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8th is international women\u2019s day and March is also Women\u2019s history month, and what better way to celebrate this than watching films by Japanese women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jss-newsletter-vol-6-no-1-march-2018-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}