嘘八百 (Uso happyaku)

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025

Dir. TAKE Masaharu
2018 | 105 mins | Japan
Japanese with English Subtitles
NAKAI Kiichi, SASAKI Kuranosuke, Tomochika, MORIKAWA Aoi

Norio is an experience antiques dealer and has seen it all from the worst, badly-made fakes to cleverly fabricated documents. Some may call Norio an opportunist, but he’s just a man trying to make an honest living in the shady world of antiques.

While searching a rich family’s storehouse he finds a valuable 16th-century tea cup from Sen no Rikyu, Japan’s most famous tea master, and deceives the homeowner who sells it to Norio for almost nothing.

However, the homeowner himself is a fake – in reality, he is a talented but impoverished ceramic artist called Sasuke (SASAKI Kuranosuke, Samurai Hustle, JFTFP23). Norio soon realises that by combining his skills in dealing and antique with Sasuke’s artistic prowess they could make a pretty penny. The two decide to make the gamble of a lifetime and present thier “finds” to an authenticator with whom they both have a score to settle.

Can the pull off the greatest swindle the world of Japanese antiques has ever seen… ?

Image: © 2018 “We Make Antiques!” Film Partners

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025
Am I Right?
Justice, Justification and Judgement in Japanese Cinema

The UK’s biggest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), is back for its latest and greatest instalment!

In a world where injustice runs rampant, cinematic expressions of justice seem inexhaustible: time and time again, heroic protagonists fend off malicious antagonists or enact their revenge, the constant injustices they face mirroring audiences’ own. Japan is no exception to this, and the JFTFP25 promises to showcase how Japanese filmmakers use the language of cinema to explore the concepts of criminal, social, and moral justice, along with the ways people respond to external judgement. Featuring everything from thought-provoking hidden gems to laugh-a-minute entertainment, UK audiences are invited to join us in questioning the very concepts of justice, justification, and judgement against today’s backdrop of ever-changing values and perspectives

In collaboration with:

Major supporter: Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

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Sponsors in Kind: Athletia, Calbee, Clearspring, Pentel and SUQQU

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

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