The Japanese Film Festival is held annually, in order to encourage the growth of Japanese culture and understanding in New Zealand. Each year, we try to give the people of New Zealand some insight into the culture, customs, and traditions of Japan, alongside what is popular with Japan’s society today, through film. Flyer

27 OCT 2:30pm Yoko the Cherry Blossom 陽光桜

©GRAND KAFE PICTURES 2015

Directed by Gen TAKAHASHI Rating PG Official Site http://www.movie-yoko.com (In Japanese) Film Festival, Award

2015 Montreal World Film Festival, Focus On World Cinema

2015 St. Louis International Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival Story

The inspiring true story of a rural Japanese high school teacher's lifelong quest to create the very first artificially pollinated hybrid cherry blossom, to fulfill a promise he made to his beloved students before they were sent off to the battlefields to fight in World War II. Tickets available at this website from 5 October

NOTE: Bookings via Hannah Playhouse's online booking form will incur a $3.50 charge. For booking tickets free of charge, please attend Hannah Playhouse's Box Office between the hours of 12pm to 2pm, Monday to Friday.



27 OCT 5:00pm Golden Orchestra オケ老人!

©2016 Gen Araki,Shogakukan / "GOLDEN ORCHESTRA!" Film Partners Directed by Toru HOSOKAWA Rating G Official Site http://oke-rojin.com (In Japanese) Story

Chizuru is a newly-hired high school teacher in the town of Umegaoka. Hoping to utilise her experience as a violinist, she joins a local amateur orchestra, only to find it’s full of senior citizens who can hardly play a note. Chizuru is too polite to tell a group which has welcomed her with open arms that she mistook the orchestra for another with a similar name. Ultimately, she winds up being the orchestra’s conductor but soon the Umegaoka Philharmonic, her original target, gives her an opportunity to join them... Tickets available at this website from 5 October

NOTE: Bookings via Hannah Playhouse's online booking form will incur a $3.50 charge. For booking tickets free of charge, please attend Hannah Playhouse's Box Office between the hours of 12pm to 2pm, Monday to Friday.

