The 8th Michinoku International Mystery Film Festival 2004 in Morioka < General Outline >

■ Title The 8th Michinoku International Mystery Film Festival 2004 in Morioka 　 ■ Organized by: Michinoku International Mystery Film Festival Execution Committee 　 ■ Aided by: Morioka City 　 ■ Special Cooperation by: Mystery Writers of Japan, and International Mystery Film Festival in Cognac, France 　 ■ Sponsored by: 1 Official Sponsors/ Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd., Iwate-gawa sake brewery, and others 　　 ■ Supported by: Asahi Shimbun Morioka branch, Yomiuri Shimbun Morioka branch, Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. Morioka branch, Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd., and Iwate Nichinichi Shimbun-sya 　 ■ Period Friday, October 29, 2004 to Sunday, October 31, 2004 　 ■ Theme: "The Spy" (Mr. Makoto Wada in charge of poster design.) 　 ■ Venues Local movie theaters, local hotels, Plaza Odette, LIRIO, and Ja-ran Ja-ran (restaurant) 　　 ■ Awards 1 Incentive Prize for First-time Director (\500,000 and commemorative gift) ■ Judges: Mr. Jang Sun Woo(Movie director), Mr. Tatｓuya　Kumagai (writer), Mr. Hisao Inagaki(Art Director) ■ Entry: 4 films Akira Ogata <THE MILKWOMAN いつか読書する日> (2004 Japan/ prerelease) Nami Iguchi <Cat Leaves Home, the 犬猫> (2004 Japan/release in Nov.) Masao Takeshita <Jump> (2004 Japan/ premiere screening in Iwate) Kim Sungho <Into the Mirror> (2003 Korea/ Northeast first show) 2 Kadokawa off-theater competition (\300,000 and commemorative gift) ■ Judge: Mr. Yohei Taneda(Art Director),Mr. Kanji Tsuda(Actor),Mr.Jun Saito(writer) ■ Entry: several (scheduled) 　 ■ Admission fee: 　 Ticket Advance Ticket Day Ticket 1 Opening Ceremony / Opening Film \2,000 \2,500 2 Welcome Party \3,500 \4,000 3 Combo of 1 & 2 (advance tickets only) \5,000 - 4 Closing Ceremony & Farewell Party \4,000 \5,000 5 Movie Ticket (adult) \1,300 \1,800 Movie Ticket (high school & college students) \1,000 \1,500 Movie Ticket (grade & junior high students, senior citizens) \1,000 \1,000 Movie Ticket (combo of first-time directors'films) \4,000 - 6 Off-theater (adult, high school & college students) \500 \700 Off-theater (grade & junior high students, senior citizens) \500 \500 7 Mystery Play (adult, high school & college students) \2,000 \2,500 ◇Advance ticket sales at: Play-Guide ticket counters & Lawson-Ticket in Morioka (from Sat. 9/25), and Ticket-Pia in Morioka (from Sat. 10/2) ◇ Advance ticket sales period: Saturday, Sep. 25 - Thursday, Oct. 28 (until 5:00 pm) ◇Day ticket sales at: (Morioka) Kawatoku, Sasaki-denki electrical store, Feｚan, Naka-san dept. store, Plaza Odette ticket counter (Nationwide) Lawson-Ticket & Ticket-Pia ◇Notice: The following tickets are available only at Play-Guide ticket counter in Morioka: Welcome Party; a combo ticket of Welcome Party & Opening Ceremony/Opening Film; a combo ticket of First-Time Directors' films; and Mystery Play

Program

1. Ceremony ■ Opening ceremony & opening screening　(Venue: Chu-geki) ■ Welcome Party (Venue: Jaran-Jaran, Morioka-eki mae dori) ■ Closing ceremony & Farewell Party (Awarding ceremony at the Hotel Royal) ■ Cinema Parade (from Sakana-cho Arcade street to Oodori Shopping street) 　 2. Films (Venue: local movie theaters): 16 films ■ Invited New Foreign Films (2 films including opening film) ■ Invited New Domestic Films (4 films including closing film) ■ Films nominated for the Incentive Prize for First-time Director (4 films: 3 films pre-release) ■ "Korean Entertainment Films vol. 4" (2 films) ■ Yasutaka Tsutsui / Author & Performance (1 films) ■ This Year's Special Films ●Spy stories (2 films) ●Asian masterpiece (1 films) 　 3. Events at Theaters ■ Mini Live in the lobby of a movie theater (Movie themes will be played by a chamber orchestra or a brass band in the theater lobby or on the stage before screening.) 　 4. Kadokawa Off-theater competition (Venue: LIRIO) ■ Competition for independent films publicly entered from throughout Japan. 　 5. Video theater (Venue: LIRIO) ■ Video screening of overseas mystery dramas selected & provided by Mystery Channel, Inc. 　 6. Invited Guests ■ Film directors Director Shunichi Kajima,Director Naoto Takenaka, and Director Jang Sun Woo ■ Nominees for the Incentive Prize for First-time Director Director Akira Ogata, Director Nami Iguchi, Director Masao Takeshita, and Director Sung-ho Kim ■ Foreign guests Roy Cheung(Hong Kong actor),Bae Doo-Na (Korean actress), and Tcha Seung-jai(Korean producer) ■ Domestic actor Hiroaki Murakami, Kanji Tsuda ■ Mystery writers Go Osaka, Kenzo Kitakata, Shimako Iwai, Tatsuya Kumagai, Fumihiko Nakatsu, Katsuhiko Takahashi, and Jun Saito ■ Cineasts Chikayo Tashiro, Rintaro Hosogoe, and Producer Mitsugu Kato ■ Invited Foreign　Director Kim Jung Hyun 　 7. Events organized by the festival committee 1) Recitation by guest writers with own composition (Venue: Plaza Odette 3F Hall) ■ Recitation by the guest writers and the guest actor ■ Cast by: Yasutaka Tsutsui, Shimako Iwai, Katsuhiko Takahashi, and Hiroaki Murakami ２) Audrey Hepburn Exhibition (Venue: Plaza Odette 2F Gallery) (planned) ■ Exhibition of rough sketches of Audrey Hepburn drawn by Mr. Rintaro Hosogoe (Morioka-born film analyst and the former designer for Shiseido Co., Ltd.) starts 1 wk ahead of the Mystery Film Festival ３) Mystery play (Film festival eve event) (Venue: Plaza Odette 3F Hall) ■ Title "An Inspector Calls" ■ The 4th series of the Mystery Play of a cinematized stories, following "Wait Until Dark", "Death Trap" and "Witness For The Prosecution" 　 8. Other events ■ Tie-up with the Morioka Film Commission Saturday, Oct. 30 from 2:30 pm (Venue: Plaza Odette) ■ Mystery Book Fair (of the guest writers' novels at bookstores) Wednesday, Oct. 20 - Wednesday, Nov. 3 Tosando-shoten bookstore: Sakana-cho store, Mitsuwari store, and Tonan store ■ "Sake" Mystery Party Sponsored by Iwate-ken Syuzokumiai (Iwate Brewery Association) Venue: Ooshimizu Taga