50th Seattle International Film Festival
MAY 9-19, 2024
Multiple Venues Across Seattle
Streaming on the SIFF Channel May 20-27
UW Japan is excited to be co-sponsoring the Seattle International Film Festival as it celebrates 50 years of surprising cinema May 9–19 with three excellent new features from Japan.
Use discount code UWJAPAN24 at siff.net/festival for $3 off tickets to featured Japanese films:
BLACK BOX DIARIES, (May 10, 11)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (May 10, 11)
BOX MAN (May 17, 18)
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BLACK BOX DIARIES
In this nonfiction procedural that cuts right to the heart, a journalist takes on Japan’s patriarchal sociopolitical system as she investigates her own sexual assault, using her camera to detail every step of the grueling eight-year process to attain justice.
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
After finally breaking through in the U.S. with the Oscar®-winning Drive My Car, filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi turns his eye to Mizubiki, a remote lakeside village that’s about to be overtaken by a new “glamping” site built on sensitive natural land.
THE BOX MAN
A man moves through Tokyo wearing a cardboard box while fighting off those who want to take his place. Based on the eponymous 1973 novel by Kobo Abe (“The Woman in the Dunes”).
UW Japan Studies Program is co-sponsoring SIFF along with its peer programs the East Asia Center, UW China Studies Program, Center for Global Studies, Human Rights Center, UW Center for Korea Studies, and UW Taiwan Arts & Culture Program.