SCHEDULE for November 2011

KONO TEN NO NIJI and other films
on coal mines and the National Railway

REVIEWS
■Kono Ten No Niji

■DOUBLE FEATURE:

　Aru Kikanjoshu

　Hajike Hosenka-Waga Chikuho Waga Chosen

Kono Ten No Niji Dir:K. Kinoshita Cast: T. Takahashi, Y. Kuga, 1958 35mm BW 106 min In Japanese No English subtitles

A young worker at the Yahata Ironworks lodges at the residence of his blast furnace foreman who formally introduces him to the girl he is interested in. Unfortunately, her parents don’t approve of him and she is seeing someone else…The film is set in an ironworks at a time when such factories represented a bright economic future, not a source of pollution as they are regarded now.

Image: (Copyright) 1958 SHOUCHIKU Co. Ltd. All rights Reserved

“Aru Kikanjoshu” is a documentary made by Japan’s national railway to make an appeal on the
safety of steam locomotives after a major train accident in 1962. Being Noriaki Tsuchimoto’s first film, the documentary takes the steam locomotive on a journey from Ueno to Mito.

“Hajike Hosenka-Waga Chikuho Waga Chosen” is a documentary, centered on the works of the
painter, Taeko Tomiyama. Through her works, the documentary depicts the story of Koreans,
forcibly brought to Japan to work in Japan’s coalmines. Neither films carry English subtitles.