Momoko Ando in London
It’s only been about a month, but it already feels so long since Raindance that I was going to hold back for further news about festival guest and juror Momoko Ando’s debut feature Kakera – A Piece of Our Lives. For those who weren’t there for the screenings in London, I can promise there will be more postings here about it sometime in the near future, including an interview at some point on Midnight Eye, into which I’ll integrate some of the comments from the q&a with Momoko and ex-Smashing Pumpkin James Iha during their trip to the festival. I know Momoko Ando herself is heading off to Sweden to present her film as part of the Asian Images section at Stockholm International Film Festival, held 18–29 November, and to Paris for the fourth Kinatayo festival of contemporary Japanese film, held during the same period. No doubt there’ll be more screenings at other festivals over the next year too, and UK audiences should also be getting another chance to see it before too long.
To whet your appetites, I wanted to draw your attention to an interview with Momoko by Eleanor McKeown of Electric Sheep, the first of several conducted at Raindance that will appear on the magazine’s website over the next month or so. Japanese readers might also be interested in checking out Momoko’s own account of her trip to London on her blog.
Lala Pipo, playing at the ICA, London from November 13th.
Momoko Ando’s sister, the actress Sakura Ando also has a new film out in Japan sometime next year, Kenta to Jun to Kayo-chan no Kuni (trans. Kenta, Jun and Kayo’s Country) – the website and trailer are now online. Sakura, if you haven’t cottoned on by now from my various postings, can be seen right now on London screens in Sion Sono’s Love Exposure, putting in a sterling performance as the cult leader Koike, with the film promising to pop up at various future junctures in the UK over the next few months, including screenings at The Cube in Bristol and the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness according to the website of UK distributor Third Window Films. And while I’m on the subject of Third Window Films, their next release, Lala Pipo – A Lot of People is also out very soon, opening at the ICA on November 13th. This film was also part of my Japanese selection at this year’s Raindance, all of which brings us nicely full circle…
Posted at 19:29 on 09 November 2009
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