Puri First Tier-2 City In Country To Host Japanese Film Fest

Puri: In a first for a tier-2 city in India, Puri is going to host a 3-day Japanese film festival on November 15-17.

As part of the festival, six Japanese films dubbed in English—It’s a Beautiful Life, Dad’s Lunch Box, The Complex, Time of Eve, Pop in Q and Survival Family—will be screened at the single-screen Sree Krishna Cinema close to Jagannath Temple.

Two Japanese movies will screened daily at 3 pm and 6 pm during the festival and entry will be free.

The festival will be jointly organised by the Consulate General of Japan in Kolkata, Japan Foundation, India-Japan Friendship Centre and Chandra Sekhar Academy, according to a report in Asian Community News.

“With this, Puri would become the first tier-2 city in the country to host a Japanese film festival. This maiden venture in Puri is a goodwill gesture between the people of Odisha and Japan. Normally, such film festivals happen in megacities. But this time at our request, the Japanese government brought it to Puri, the cultural capital of Odisha,” said Kunna Dash, the founder of India-Japan Friendship Centre and Chandra Sekhar Academy..

Asked why the Japanese film festival was being held in Puri and not elsewhere in Odisha like Bhubaneswar, Dash said that the people of the coastal city were already accustomed with Japanese art and culture. This is because Puri has been a destination of a large number of tourists from Japan, he added.

Earlier on September 27, a six-month-long Japanese Film Festival (JFF) 2019-20 was rolled out with 25 Japanese films in New Delhi. The JFF 2019-20 is organized by Japan Foundation and PVR Cinemas, and all the movies are being screened in select PVR multiplexes in seven cities in the country.

(https://www.asiancommunitynews.com/puri-first-tier-2-city-of-india-to-host-japanese-film-festival/)