Events
PRESS CONFERENCE
Sultana Kamal & Ranglai Mro
Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
To All Regular Members:
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Yoshino Kimura, Actress & TIFF Ambassador;
Tom Yoda, Chairman, Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Ichiro Kono, Chair and CEO, Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee;
Mikako Kotani, Executive Board Member, Tokyo 2016 Bid Committee
PRESS CONFERENCE
Shigefumi Matsuzawa
Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture
18:00-21:00 Friday, September 18, 2009
Suzue
with Mikiko Yamamoto
Contemporary Popular Music
National Holiday. No movie showing.
Book Break
You Gotta Have Wa 2009
By Robert Whiting
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 6:30PM to 8:30PM
PRESS CONFERENCE
Taro Kono, Yasutoshi Nishimura & Sadakazu Tanigaki,
Liberal Democratic Party Presidential Candidates
PRESS CONFERENCE
Bertil Lintner, David Mathieson, Kei Nemoto & Tin Win,
"Inside Burma's Opposition Politics"
SPECIAL MEDIA SCREENING followed by a Q&A session with the film’s central figure, dolphin trainer-turned-animal rights activist Ric O’Barry
Friday, September 25, 2009 19:00
THE COVE USA, 2009. 92 minutes. 20F.
Directed by Louie Psihoyos
Written by Mark Monroe
Produced by the Oceanic Preservation Society, Diamond Docs, Fish Films and Quickfire Films
Featuring Ric O'Barry, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank, Louis Psihoyos, Paul Watson
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Lunch: 12:30-13:30 Dining Room
Ballet: 15:00 Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (Ueno)
Jonathan Katz and Rie Akagi
Contemporary Piano and Flute Jazz
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Toshio Tamogami,
Former Air Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff
DOCUMENTARY & PRESS CONFERENCE
"Burma VJ"
Jan Krogsgaard, Assistant Director, Originator & Script Writer
FCCJ GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
18:30 Monday, September 28, 2009
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Ben-Ami Shillony,
"A New Look at the Japanese Emperors"
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Randall S. Jones,
Head of Japan/Korea Desk,
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
PROFESSIONAL DINNER
Mitsuko Kusabue & Shinobu Otake,
Actresses, Musical "Grey Gardens"
To Regular & Professional/Journalist Associate (PJA) Members
Cost: 1,000 yen (members) / 1,500 yen (guests) tax inclusive
SIDEWAYS Japan, 2009. 123 minutes.
Directed by Cellin Gluck
Produced by Chihiro Kameyama
Starring Kyoka Suzuki, Rinko Kikuchi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Katsuhisa Namase
Film courtesy of 20th Century Fox Japan.
Book Break
Japan Through Writers’Eyes
By Elizabeth Ingrams
Friday, October 2, 2009, 6:30PM to 8:30PM
A Portrait of Bangladesh
(Main Bar and Sushi Bar)
Saturday, October 3 to Friday, October 30, 2009
Kev Gray & The Gravy Train
A Singer-Songwriter and his Band
To All Regular & Professional/Journalist Associate Members:
Germany / Austria. 2005. 92 minutes. No dialogue. DOCUMENTARY.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
PROFESSIONAL LUNCHEON
Katsuya Okada,
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Andrea Hopkins and Jonathan Katz
Jazz!
USA / UK. 2008. 100 minutes.
Director: Marina Zenovich
Appearances: Pedro Almodovar, Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Mia Farrow, Harrison Ford, etc.
To All Regular Members:
GMM Continued to October 14