{"id":758,"date":"2021-02-17T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/cfac\/?p=758"},"modified":"2021-02-17T21:02:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:02:28","slug":"visit-of-japanese-film-director-yuki-tanada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/screen-work-group\/2021\/02\/17\/visit-of-japanese-film-director-yuki-tanada\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit of Japanese film director Yuki Tanada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 Febrary 2016 &#8211; Bulmershe Theatre, Minghella Studios<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ae_image alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/web\/MultimediaFiles\/the_cowards_who_looked_to_the_.jpg\" alt=\"The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yuki Tanada visited CFAC to discuss her film <em>The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky<\/em> (2012), which screened as part of the 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpf-film.org.uk\/\" name=\"Japan-Foundation-Touring-Film-Programme\"><u>Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme<\/u><\/a> (5 February to 26 March 2016).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky<\/strong><\/em> (2012)<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the growing pressure of bearing a child for her immature husband, lonely housewife Satomi (Tomoko Tabata) regularly retreats to the cosplay fantasy world of her favourite animated character &#8216;Anzu&#8217;. After a random encounter at an anime convention with high-school student and fellow cosplayer Takumi (Kento Nagayama), Satomi begins a full illicit affair with the young man, regularly meeting and making love at her marital home. Meanwhile, Takumi&#8217;s best friend Ryota struggles living with his senile grandmother in a rundown housing development after his mother abandoned the two of them for a new boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yuki Tanada<\/strong>, considered one of Japan&#8217;s most talented filmmakers, returns from a four year break with this emotionally-engaging and bold expression of the inner lives, hardships and cooped-up feelings of individuals in modern day Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Febrary 2016 &#8211; Bulmershe Theatre, Minghella Studios Yuki Tanada visited CFAC to discuss her film The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky (2012), which screened as part of the&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#115;&#99;&#114;&#101;&#101;&#110;&#45;&#119;&#111;&#114;&#107;&#45;&#103;&#114;&#111;&#117;&#112;&#47;&#50;&#48;&#50;&#49;&#47;&#48;&#50;&#47;&#49;&#55;&#47;&#118;&#105;&#115;&#105;&#116;&#45;&#111;&#102;&#45;&#106;&#97;&#112;&#97;&#110;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#45;&#102;&#105;&#108;&#109;&#45;&#100;&#105;&#114;&#101;&#99;&#116;&#111;&#114;&#45;&#121;&#117;&#107;&#105;&#45;&#116;&#97;&#110;&#97;&#100;&#97;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Visit of Japanese film director Yuki Tanada - Screen Work Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/screen-work-group\/2021\/02\/17\/visit-of-japanese-film-director-yuki-tanada\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visit of Japanese film director Yuki Tanada - Screen Work Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"10 Febrary 2016 &#8211; 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