Japan Cuts 2009

Non-ko trailer (with English subs)

NY Premiere
Friday, July 10 at 8:15 pm
Sunday, July 12 at 4:15 pm

@ Japan Society
333 East 47th St.
NY NY 10017

Part of Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film
June 30 – July 12, 2009
http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts

Nonko, a 36-year-old divorced ex-actress, returns home to her family, where her father is a priest at a local Shinto shrine. Disillusioned and lonely, she takes out her frustration by drinking herself to oblivion at a local bar until she meets up with a naïve young man who is trying to make his fortune by selling baby chicks. Maki Sakai gives a stellar performance in the title role of Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s uplifting portrait of a woman with complexity.

2008, 105 min., 35mm. Directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. With Maki Sakai, Gen Hoshino, Shingo Tsurumi and Kanji Tsuda.