2023 Japan Film Show in Vancouver: "We Make Antiques!" (Usohappyaku) at VPL (2023/02/09)
2023/1/25
We Make Antiques!
Usohappyaku（嘘八百）
(2018, 105. min, Japanese with English subtitles, Comedy, Rated PG)
Date: Thursday, February 9
Time: 6:30pm - 8:15pm (doors open at 6:00pm)
Location: Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, Montalbano Family Theatre (8th floor)
(350 West Georgia St.)
Admission: Free, open to the general public
Official trailer: https://youtu.be/28OdBNwGsFo
*No registration required. Seats will be available on a first come, first served basis. We recommend arriving earlier as there is limited seating.
Synopsis:
An original feature from director Take Masaharu, ‘We Make Antiques!’ is a comic caper about the duplicity of scammers trying to outwit each other. Antique dealer Koike Norio (Nakai Kiichi) flounders around as he goes after a big break. He heads for Sakai, Osaka to find a treasure and encounters down-and-out potter Noda Sasuke (Sasaki Kuranosuke). When a prominent appraiser dupes them both, the two losers collude to make a pile of cash by faking a "lost tea bowl" belonging to the historic tea master, Rikyu.
Japanese Film Database: https://jfdb.jp/en/title/8026
Full size poster
Usohappyaku（嘘八百）
(2018, 105. min, Japanese with English subtitles, Comedy, Rated PG)
Date: Thursday, February 9
Time: 6:30pm - 8:15pm (doors open at 6:00pm)
Location: Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, Montalbano Family Theatre (8th floor)
(350 West Georgia St.)
Admission: Free, open to the general public
Official trailer: https://youtu.be/28OdBNwGsFo
*No registration required. Seats will be available on a first come, first served basis. We recommend arriving earlier as there is limited seating.
Synopsis:
An original feature from director Take Masaharu, ‘We Make Antiques!’ is a comic caper about the duplicity of scammers trying to outwit each other. Antique dealer Koike Norio (Nakai Kiichi) flounders around as he goes after a big break. He heads for Sakai, Osaka to find a treasure and encounters down-and-out potter Noda Sasuke (Sasaki Kuranosuke). When a prominent appraiser dupes them both, the two losers collude to make a pile of cash by faking a "lost tea bowl" belonging to the historic tea master, Rikyu.
Japanese Film Database: https://jfdb.jp/en/title/8026
Full size poster
