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DESCRIPTION:Japan/U.S. co-production film will screen at Asian American Sho
 wcase!\n\nI am a Japanese filmmaker in U.S. We have a feature film called\
 ,  \n"THE FIRST BREATH OF TENGAN REI" http://www.tenganrei.com/media.html\
 nscreens at Asian American Showcase\, Thursday\, April 9 at 8:15 P.M.\nat 
 The Gene Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\n\nThe film is:  
                       \nThe international psychological drama The First Br
 eath of Tengan Rei\, written and directed by Chicago husband/wife filmmaki
 ng team Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski\, screens Thursday\, April 9 at 8
 :15 p.m. as part of the 14th Annual Asian American Showcase at the Gene Si
 skel Film Center\, 164 N. State St. in Chicago.\n\n“Great performances.
 ” – Chicago Tribune\n“An auspicious debut.” – Chicago Sun-Times\
 n“An astute psychological drama. Beautifully shot. Wonderful acting”\n
 – Chicago Public Radio\n                             \nIn The First Brea
 th of Tengan Rei\, Japanese star Erika (of Kore-Eda’s renowned After Lif
 e) plays Rei\, a young Okinawan woman who kidnaps Paris\, the teenage son 
 of a U.S. Marine convicted of raping her when she was a girl.  While Rei h
 olds Paris captive\, the two are drawn together despite the scars of the p
 ast\, as they prepare for a final confrontation with Paris’s father\, Ne
 lson. \n\nKajino\, a native of Nagano\, Japan\, moved to Yellow Springs\, 
 Ohio in 1997 to start her film career.  There she met Koziarski\, from Chi
 cago’s Beverly neighborhood\, was completing his senior film at Antioch 
 College.  Together they have helped produce dozens of independent films\, 
 all the while battling to make their own feature film.  They finally got t
 heir chance when Junko was inspired by a tragic true story that she felt a
  special responsibility and opportunity to tell\, as a Japanese woman livi
 ng in the U.S.  Kajino and Koziarski filmed in Chicago and Okinawa with a 
 Japanese and American cast and crew\, overcoming language and cultural bar
 riers and shooting through a typhoon in a former leper colony off the Okin
 awa coast. \n\nChicago stage veteran and South Side resident Sean Nix\, mo
 stly recently seen in Timeline Theatre Company’s production of Gore Vida
 l’s Weekend\, portrays Nelson.  Nelson’s partner in crime\, Carter\, i
 s portrayed by local film and TV actor Ric Arthur\, who himself served in 
 the Marines in Okinawa. North Carolina newcomer Katori Eason plays Paris. 
  Mark Messing\, leader of acclaimed local band Mucca Pazza\, designed the 
 sound for the film with Lou Mallozzi of Experimental Sound Studio and comp
 osed the score\, featuring music by cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and Califone
  guitarist Jim Becker.  \n\nKoziarski and Kajino\, who live in Pilsen\, wi
 ll hold a Q&A\; after the screening.  Screeners available on request. Down
 load press kit and stills at http://www.tenganrei.com/media.html.  Asian A
 merican Showcase runs April 3-16.  For more information on Asian American 
 Showcase see\nhttp://www.faaim.org./\n\nThank you very much\, \nJunko Kaji
 no\n312 850 1247\n\n
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SUMMARY:The film about Okinawan woman Screens at Festival!
URL:/en/events/2009/04/09/the-film-about-okinawan-woman-screens-at-festival
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