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HISTORICA SPECIAL
『The Twilight Samurai』
Highly-acclaimed domestically and internationally! The emotional jidaigeki depicting the relationship of father and young daughter, and the love between a childhood friend
Director：Yoji Yamada
『CHAIN』
Shinsengumi vs Goryo Eji, a memoir of asasssinations: the Aburanokoji incident?
Let's hope the world's a better place in 100 years...
Director：Yoshiho Fukuoka
HISTORICA WORLD
『Mosquito』
Reality and fantasy, past and present, fabrication and the everyday... An ultimate anti-war film awakening memories that fluctuate in between
Director：João Nuno Pinto
『Defiant Souls (Insumisa)』
Swiss surgeon challenges against the society and his destiny In Cuba where he visits in search for his lost son
Director：Fernando Pérez / Laura Cazador
『Felix Austria (Viddana)』
A reconstruction of the magical world of the 19th century in the present! An Austrian story of a strange sisterhood
Director：Christina Sivolap
『GWEN』
A folk horror depicting a series of eerie events that descend upon a young girl's family, set in the solemn nature
Director：William McGregor
HISTORICA FOCUS
『Dai Chushingura (Chushingura)』
With both artistic conscience and spirit for entertainment, The first full-sound version of the Chushingura
Director：Teinosuke Kinugasa
『Jirokichi』
The gentleman thief Jirokichi's intention was to help others, but with unexpected victims; Daisuke Ito's art of defeat
Director：Daisuke Ito
『The Night of Firefly』
Otose, the boathouse landlady shelters Ryoma, she secretly admires him, but he is in a relationship with her daughter...
Director：Heinosuke Gosho
『The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums』
An actor devoted to his art, and a woman who supports him A masterpiece of love in the history of cinema, by maestro Kenji Mizoguchi
Director：Kenji Mizoguchi
『The Ballad of Narayama』
The Ubasute folklore that shocked the world The love of a mother and child hidden in its depths
Director：Keisuke Kinoshita
『Harakiri』
The quiet and active, swelling tension, the fierce and spectacular fight! Unravelling the vanity of the samurai society, and the ruthless way of the samurai!
Director：Masaki Kobayashi
『The Assassin』
From pro-Emperor to pro-Shogunate, and pro-Emperor again... The ambition and pas-sion of Hachiro Kiyokawa, a lone wolf who lived recklessly and died violently in the disquiet of Bakumatsu
Director：Masahiro Shinoda
『Gohatto』
Who is going crazy? A sensational jidaigeki by Oshima, with an extraordinary cast and professional crew!
Director：Nagisa Oshima
『Abacus and Sword』
There was a samurai who protected his family, not with a sword, but an abacus A family drama directed by Yoshimitsu Morita, starring Masato Sakai
Director：Yoshimitsu Morita
『Crest Of Betrayal』
Women love; they love, even after being killed Will martyrs go to paradise? Double suicide surely goes to hell
Director：Kinji Fukasaku
『When the Last Sword Is Drawn』
A touching film depicting the wholehearted life of a nameless samurai who joined the Shinsengumi
Director：Yojiro Takita
『Samurai Hustle』
Eccentric, exciting, full speed! Laughable, tear-jerking and passionate A spectacle of historical entertainment!
Director：Katsuhide Motoki
Collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Osaka - Tribute to Federico Fellini
『Il Casanova di Federico Fellini』
Maestro Fellini depicts the Don Quixote-like life of Casanova who worshiped women through sex
Director：Federico Fellini
『FELLINI SATYRICON』
A dazzling and majestic visual opera depicting men of the godless age
Director：Federico Fellini
La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale College Cinema
『Lessons of Love』
What is love, what is life, what is self...? The quiet struggles of man in solitude in a remote village
Director：Chiara Campara
Kyoto Filmmakers Lab screenings
『Horse Thieves』
A coproduction between Kazakhstan and Japan The story of a father and son in the great plains at the foothills of Tian Shan
Director：Lisa Takeba /Yerlan Nurmukhambetov
- Hosted by：Kyoto HISTORICA International Film Festival Committee
(Kyoto Prefectural Government, The Museum of Kyoto, Toei Company, Ltd. Kyoto Movie Studios, Shochiku Studio Co., Ltd., Toei Kyoto Studio Co., Ltd., Iwamoto Metal Co., Ltd., Directors Univ,inc., Ritsumeikan University, )
Co-hosted by：KYOTO CMEX Executive Committee
Sponsors：TESPAC Co., Ltd.／Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyoto Shijo／TOYOSU Co., Ltd.
With the Association of：Kyoto Crossmedia Promotion Agency／Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka／La Biennale di Venezia-Biennale College Cinema
Presented Under the auspices of：Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, Inc.／Foreign Film Importer-Distributors Association of Japan／Motion Picture and Television Engineering Society of Japan Inc.
Supported by：Japan Arts Council
