Pitt to Present Japanese Film Series, "Pop Culture Comes to the Screen: Contemporary Youth Comedy"

PITTSBURGH—Pitt's Asian Studies Center at the University Center for International Studies, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Modern Languages and the Modern Languages Student Advisory Council, will host a Japanese film series, titled "Pop Culture Comes to the Screen: Contemporary Youth Comedy."

The series begins Sept. 29 with a screening of Linda Linda Linda (2005), directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, at 7 p.m. The second and final screening is Train Man (2005), directed by Shosuke Murakami, at 7 p.m. Oct. 16. Both films are being shown in Japanese with English subtitles in Carnegie Mellon's McConomy Auditorium. Admission to the series is free to the public.

The series is funded by the University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center with a National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Toshiba International Foundation, and Pitt's Japan Iron and Steel Federation/Mitsubishi Endowment.

For more information, contact Keiko McDonald, professor of Japanese cinema and literature in Pitt's Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, at 412-624-4923 or keiko@pitt.edu.

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