28th JCC CINEMA

JCC CINEMA FREE SCREENING

ROBO-G (PG)

Saturday, 30th August 2014
2:00pm
(Check-in starts at 1:30pm)

Japan Creative Centre invites you to join us at our 28th JCC film screening entitled "ROBO-G". Directed by YAGUCHI Shinobu. Starring Mickey Curtis and Yuriko Yoshitaka. Curtis, who goes by the stage name Igarashi Shinjirō in this film, plays the role of a 73 year-old man, while Yoshitaka stars as a robots-obsessed college student.

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Film Synopsis

Director : YAGUCHI Shinobu

Cast: IGARASHI Shinjiro, YOSHITAKA Yuriko, HAMADA Gaku

2012 / 111min / English Subtitle

The latest from writer-director Yaguchi Shinobu, who has produced a string of hits including Happy Flight with his unique viewpoint and outstanding comedic sensibility. Mickey Curtis (KAMIKAZE TAXI), credited as Igarashi Shinjiro, gives a wonderful performance as a stubborn old man in his first starring role.

Consumer electronics company employee Kobayashi (Hamada Gaku) is ordered to develop a bipedal robot, but fails miserably. He comes up with a plan to pass off a human in a suit as a robot, and finds an elderly man named Suzuki (Igarashi) who fits inside the suit perfectly, but...

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