- Screenings and talkback session on the film adaptation of a successful stage play that explores the struggles of the Korean community in 1970s Osaka
- Roundtable discussion on film production in Japan and the Philippines
MANILA and TOKYO (August 8, 2019)
The Japan Foundation, Manila, through its annual film festival EIGASAI, brings a talk on film production in Japan and the Philippines, as well as a film screening featuring a story about a Korean family residing in Japan, to the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) on August 16-17, 2019.
Yakiniku Dragon 焼肉ドラゴン offers its viewers a look into the vigorous life of a Korean community in the 70s era Japan. In the outskirts of Osaka, in a squatter settlement on government property, a Korean family runs a barbecue restaurant. With a wife, three daughters and a son, the father Yong-gil lives with bravado but is gradually bombarded by the tides of the times.
Director Chong will be in Manila for a series of events during the 22nd Japanese Film Festival | EIGASAI screening of Yakiniku Dragon at UPFI. Together with film producers Mr. Toru Emori and Mr. Hirotake Sasaki, he is scheduled for a Director’s Talk on August 16, 2:00PM and August 17, 4:30PM at UPFI Cine Adarna.
They will also take part in a talk and roundtable discussion on film production in Japan and the Philippines together with award-winning producer-director Prof. Giancarlo Abrahan for select UP film students and filmmakers, to be held at UPFI Videotheque on August 16, 1:30PM.
Screenings of Yakiniku Dragon and other festival entries at UPFI from August 14-17 are free of charge.
CHONG Wishing
Born in July 1957, Japan. He studied in the Department of Arts of the Yokohama Movie and Broadcasting College. In 1993, Chong won the 38th Kishida Prize for Drama for his play “The Terayama” wherein on the same year he branched out into film, and his movie ”All Under the Moon” (1993) won the prize for Best Screenplay for both awards giving bodies—the Mainichi Film Competition and the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Screenplay.
With “YAKINIKU DRAGON”, he received the 8th Asahi Performing Arts Awards Grand Prix, the 12th Tsuruya Nanboku Drama Award, the 16th Yomiuri Theater Award for Best Play and the 59th Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. “YAKINIKU DRAGON” was ranked 3rd in Korean Association of Theatre Critic’s “The Best Theatre of 2008,” and ranked 7th in the National Theater Association of Korea’s “The Best Theatre of the Year.” His notable works in recent years include “Pamaya sumire”, “Bring me my chariot of fire”, “Asia Onsen, Shabake”, “Saraba Hachigatsu no Daichi”, “Subete Shigatsu no Tameni”, “Hisoyakana Kessyou”, “Sekido no shitano Macbeth.” Chong received the Medal with Purple Ribbon for spring 2014.
