The ongoing Japanese Film Screening at the Japan Foundation, New Delhi has successfully attracted audience from wide spectrum of societies as well as nationalities.
Besides large number of Indians who are developing taste for the Japanese films, the film screening has witnessed visitors from other countries as well.
With spotlight actor Koichi Sato, the Japan Foundation is currently screening “Nobody To Watch Over Me” in November and “Ah! Spring” with English subtitles in December.
Archana Agnihotri a woman from Delhi who visited Japan Foundation on November 10 to watch Ryoichi Kimizuka’s Nobody To Watch Over Me said that she got to know about the screening Japanese film through facebook post.
“It was a wonderful experience to watch a Japanese movie at Japan Foundation. Next time she will bring her friends along also watching movie here,” said Archana who is a director with an NGO Smadhan Abhiyan.
“Nobody To Watch Over Me” is being screened on November 22 too at 6.30pm.
Veronika Resslova an artist and language teacher from Czech Republic was one of the film audiences on November 10.
“I happened to visit Japan Foundation for its library and gallery as I was looking for Mango comics but got to know of the film screening and I saw the entire film. It was an interesting film,” she said.
A Korean student of Kathak Kendra Chanakyapuri, New Delhi too watched “Nobody To Watch Over Me”.
According to the audiences interested in learning the art and culture of Japan, watching Japanese helped them a lot.
Manisha – a practitioner of medicines in New Delhi is a regular visitor at Japan Foundation and enjoys screening of Japanese films.
“Films help us understand the culture and the way of life the people of this nationality lead. Before I started watching films from Japan, Korea and China, I would take the nationals of these three countries as same as they looked alike by appearance. But films teach us how their culture is diverse, their way of greeting the people are different. Films help us understand the oriental culture with more clarity,” Manisha added.
