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2010.08.30
2010 Summer Film Screenings
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The National Hansen's Disease Museum will screen movies and videos related to Hansen's Disease
The contents and schedule are as follows. Please come and join us.
"Rainbow to the Future"
(30 mins) For children
This work is an animation based on the life of Yasuji Hirasawa Leprosy recovered persons.
In this work, Hirasawa speaks to the children who will carry the future about the pain and suffering of discrimination, his longing for his hometown that he cannot return to even if he wants to, and the importance of "human rights."
(Planning and production: Ministry of Justice Human Rights Bureau/Human Rights Education and Promotion Center, 2005)
[Screening Dates] August 22nd (Sun) and 29th (Sun) 10:30 to 11:00
After the end, there will be a greeting from Mr. Yasuji Hirasawa.
"Dance of the Wind"
(60 mins) For the general public
This documentary film follows the poems of poet and Oshimaseishoen Towa, conveying the sincere lives of many Former leprosy patients and their grief-stricken thoughts, and examining their "history and present."
(Director: Nobue Miyazaki, Poetry reading: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Narration: Minoru Terada, 2003)
[Screening Date and Time] Sunday, August 22nd, 14:00 to 15:00
After the end, there will be a greeting from Director Nobue Miyazaki.
"Hot wall"
(95 mins) For the general public
This film is based on the Kurokami Elementary School incident that occurred in Kumamoto in 1953 (in which the school's PTA tried to prevent children of parents with Leprosy patients from attending school), and uses the tragedy of one citizen's family to denounce the prejudice and discrimination against Hansen's Disease.
(Screenplay and Director: Setsuo Nakayama, 1970)
[Screening Date and Time] Sunday, August 29th, 14:00 to 15:35
After the end, there will be a greeting from Director Setsuo Nakayama.