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Festival Events
【Talk Show】
Guest Writers Talk Live
Date: 10/18 (Sat) from 19:00
Venue: Plaza Odtte 3F Hall (Admission Free)
(Numbered tickets are distributed at Odette 3F Hall, 1 hr. prior to the Live. Entry will be in the order of the number on your ticket.)
Exciting talk by the Horror Story Grand Prize winner, Hideaki Sena, and the Naoki Prize winner, Ira Ishida!
 
Guest Directors Talk & Talk
Date: 10/18 (Sat) from 20:00
Venue: Plaza Odtte 3F Hall (Admission Free)
Dreamlike talk show is finally realized, having Director Bong Joon-Ho, Director Kim Jae-Won and a movie producer from Korean side and several new directors from Japan.

【Rintaro Hosogoe / Portraits of Film Stars】
Date: 10/15 (Wed) to 10/19 (Sun)
Venue: Plaza Odette 2F Gallery (Admission Free)
100 portraits of movie stars drawn by Morioka native film critic Mr. Hosogoe (former designer for Shiseido Co., Ltd.) will be exhibited.

【Cinema Parade】
Date: 10/18 (Sat) from 12:30
Route: Starting from Morioka Sakana-cho Arcade Street to Odori Shopping Street.
Big parade with guests on open cars and marching bands consisting of Morioka citizens.

【"Mystery Book Fair"】
Venue: Sawaya Bookstore on 10/6 (Mon) until 10/31 (Fri)
Tosando head shop and Mitsuwari shop on 10/3 (Fri) until 10/19 (Sun)
Book fair featuring books written by the writers participating in the Festival.

【"Open-air Second-hand Book Fair"】
Date: 10/15 (Wed) until 25 (Sat)
Venue: Plaza Odette front piazza
Movie related books and Festival booklets will be there for you.


Sponsored Events
【Morioka "Our Era"】
Such a lot of fun was there!
papa-mama shop , picture-card show, hula-hoop, book-lending shop, "Geta" Ssate, "menko", "Kabaya" paperback, silver ball popper, yo-yo, tin-sheet toy, coloring book, sunlight picture…
Writer Katsuhiko Takahashi produce, nostalgic Morioka of 1950s!

■Date: 9/4 (Thu) until 11/30 (Sun) 10:00 am to 18:00 pm (Admission until 17:30)
■Venue: "Morioka Takuboku / Kenji Seishun Kan (memorial hall)"
■Fee: \300 for adult (Junior high and above) / \100 for grade-schooler (Free if with parents) / Free for babies
Closed on every 2nd Tuesday
Closed at 17:00 pm when <Records Concert> or <Mystery Play> is scheduled.
Host: Morioka ""Our Era" executive committee
Inquiry: Morioka Takuboku / Kenji Seishun Kan (memorial hall)

<Records Concert>
"Electric Guitar POP Music Explosion"
10/11 (Sat) at 19:30 to 21:00 in 2F Exhibition Hall
Advance \1,000 / Door \1,200
Reproduce the record concert often held at cafes and campus festivals in the period when records were so precious. Katsuhiko Takahashi will be the DJ.

<Original Picture-Card Show>
2F Exhibition Hall Date & Time: Sun & Holiday at 11:30, 13:30
Horror fantasy <Dokuro Oni (death's-head demon)> by Katsuhiko Takahashi

<My Sweet Morioka / Mystery Theater>
2F Exhibition Hall Advance \1,200 / Door \1,500
Curtain Time: 19:30 both days
Recitation of <Memory> series being set at Morioka and re-production play of classic radio drama <Nobi yuku wakaba (growing leaves)> played by Morioka theater troupe and IBC (Iwate broadcasting Co.Ltd.) announcer.
1st night / <Ai no kioku (memory of love)> written by Katsuhiko Takahashi 9/27 (Sat)
2nd night / <Akai kioku (scarlet memory)> written by Katsuhiko Takahashi 10/25 (Sat)
3rd night / <Nobi yuku wakaba (growing young leaves)> written by Ryuta Sato 11/8 (Sat)
4th night / <Toui kioku (distant memory)> written by Katsuhiko Takahashi 11/22(Sat)

【Film Commission Seminar in Morioka】
Panel Discussion
Theme: Deregulation and Filming
One of the major difficulties for making of drama and movies is regulations for use of roads and facilities and associated complex application procedures. What if such complicated application procedures become simpler? It might increase on-location filming in your neighbor… Will car action movies be possible in Japan? What can we do to accommodate on-location filming to help promote entertaining movies? This is the best chance for you in Morioka to hear inside stories of filmmaking and the latest information of Kobe, one of the filmmaking advanced cities in Japan, and of Korea, Asian FC advanced nation.
■Date: 10/18 (Sat) 16:00 until 18:00
■Venue: Plaza Odette 3F Hall
■Guest: Kim Jae-Won(director, Korea), Tacha Seung-jai (producer, Korea) and other
■Facilitator: Mako Tanaka (Kobe Film Office)
■Host: Chikayo Tashiro (Cinema Writer)
■Inquiry/TEL 019-604-3300

【Video Show <Saiban in - kimeru no ha anata (juror - it is you who judge)>】
■Date & Time: 10/18 (Sat) at 13:30 / 10/19 (Sun) at 11:00
■Venue: LiRiO 3F Event Hall (Admission Free)
■Director/ Kan Ishibasi
■Cast/ Koji Ishizaka, Hiromi Iwasaki, Tokie Hidari, Tetsu Watanabe
Novel court drama made by Japan Federation of Bar Associations on the assumption that "What if jury system is introduced in Japan?"
<Sponsored> Iwate Bar Association

【Video Theater】
■Date: 10/17 (Fri) to 10/19 (Sun)
■Venue: LiRiO 3F Event Hall
■Admission Free
Videocasting of foreign and domestic mystery dramas offered by Mystery Channel, Inc. and horror suspence <Sonzai (existence)> (English subtitle) offered by Office 101.
<Sponsor> Mystery Channel, Inc.

【Festival Eve Event Mystery Plan】
"Witness For The Prosecution"
■Date: 10/16 (Thu) at 19:00
■Venue: Plaza Odette 3F Hall
■Stage Director: Hisashi Asanuma (Act Device)
■Case: IBC Iwate Broadcasting Co. Ltd. announcer and local theater troupe
Never miss this chance to see this movie-turned stage drama here in Morioka! 3rd of the series following <Wait Until Dark> and <Death Trap>. Original was written by Agatha Christie