11th Japan Foundation Movie Festival

The 11th Japan Foundation Movie Festival, organized annually by the Korean Film Archive and the Japan Foundation in Seoul, will take place from January 25th to February 11th. This year's festival features 16 films inspired by 8 modern and contemporary Japanese literary writers, including the greatest novelist of the Meiji era, Soseki Natsume, whose works "Heart" and "And Then" will be showcased, as well as Nobel laureate in Literature Yasunari Kawabada, whose "Snow Country" and "The Dancer of Izu" will be featured. The festival also includes films based on works by Junichiro Tanizaki, the master of aestheticism, and the controversial writer Yukio Mishima.

One highlight of the festival is the inclusion of films based on works by female writers, such as Hayashi Fumiko's "Wanderer", "Floating Clouds", and "Late Chrysanthemum," Yasuko Harada's best-selling novel "Northern Elegy," and Uno Chio's novella "Ohan." These works delve into various themes such as war, defeat, poverty, class, family, self-awareness, and love.

The festival offers a unique opportunity to experience the anxieties, gloom, boredom, passion, beauty, humor, and hope of modern writers through classic films, most of which will be screened in 35mm print.