JFLA provides high quality Japanese film screening every second and fourth Wednesday, 7:00pm at JFLA Auditorium (5700 Wilshire Blvd, #100, Los Angeles, CA 90036)
Free to attend. Reservation is not required.
*Seating is on a first come first serve basis and subject to capacity. Please arrive early for best seating.
Street Parking is available.
Amusingly Bizarre Film with Messages about Friendship and Women Standing up for Themselves
The Night is Short, Walk On Girl
(92mins, 2017)
Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
From the visionary mind of director Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game, Adventure Time‘s “Food Chain”) directs this animated film adapting Morimi Tomihiko's identically titled novel, a comedy about one epic night in Kyoto.
Senpai (voice: Gen Hoshino) is in love with Girl with Black Hair (voice: Kana Hanazawa), secretly. He seeks her at Ponto-cho at night, at the used book market at Shimogamo Shrine, at the university fair… But she never realizes how he feels, and each time he "happens" to run into her, she simply says "What a coincidence!" Will Senpai ever get her to realize his love?
*In Japanese with English subtitles
ClickHere to Watch the Trailer