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Six Japanese Films to Screen at the Chicago International Film Festival

Film & Other Media
In Person
AMC River East 21
322 E Illinois Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Date: Oct. 9, 2011 – Oct. 18, 2011


This year's Chicago International Film Festival (Chicago's biggest film festival!) will feature six movies from Japan! The programmers cast their nets wide and eclectic this year, for a slate to include the brutally stylish crime flick Smuggler, the somehow touching revenge drama Sleep, the sobering documentary Ending Note: Death of a Japanese Salesman, the contemporary family epic Chronicle of My Mother, the arrested-development-parenting comedy Bunny Drop, and the this-wouldn't-be-a-film-festival-without-a-J-horror-omnibus Kaidan Horror Classics.

Date
Screening dates and time vary depending on the film. Go here for a full list of the Japanese films, or click on the individual film links above for their respective showtimes.

Place
All screenings are held at the AMC River East 21
322 E Illinois St.
Chicago, IL 60610
(Map)

Info

Admissions passes can be had for anywhere from $90 to $230, depending on how many showings you want to attend and your level of membership.

Individual tickets, meanwhile, are $10 for Cinema/Chicago members, seniors, and students, $13 for everyone else, and $5 for matinees. 

Ticket orders and more information on prices can be found here
Information about all of the Japanese films in competition can be found here


Chicago International Film Festival films film screenings

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