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Jockey Club ifva Everywhere – People Cinema will present two films of Japanese director Ishii Yuya, Best Director awardee of 2013 Japanese Academy Awards, in two nights this October at the Rooftop Garden, 10/F, D2 Place One in Lai Chi Kok, including The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue on 4 October, and The Great Passage on 5 October respectively.

“Living in this age makes me disturbed.” Life in the big city is tough. Even the most mundane of life's daily routines prove an unending struggle. Prolific Japanese filmmaker Yuya Ishii gently captures the dizzying beauty and the weighs of pain and joy as a poetical exploration. Come and taste the sweetness and bitterness of life at the rooftop under Hong Kong starry sky!


4 Oct 2019 (Fri) 17:30
The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue
Ishii Yuya / Japan / 2017 / Col’ / 108’
In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles

Love and death and love again in Tokyo. She spends her days dealing with life and death as a nurse, straining against formality and conformity. He spends his days working with his buddies in the precariousness world of construction. Nights are for drinking, bars, seeking and emptiness. Nevertheless, these two young people find and lose and find each other across the streets of a modern Tokyo that acts as much as a protagonist as a stage for their encounters. And they draw us more and more into their questions about life, their friends, their family and their hopes.


5 Oct 2019 (Sat) 17:30
The Great Passage
Ishii Yuya / Japan / 2013 / Col’ / 133’
In Japanese with Chinese and English subtitles

Mitsuya Majime is an unsuccessful salesman who works in publishing company. But his love of reading and dedication in linguistics, catches the eyes of dictionary editor who are seeking a replacement for himself working on a new dictionary called “Daitokai” (The Great Passage). Majime’s love of language not only put him in the best position composing the dictionary, but also encouraged his fellows who is slow to develop an appreciation for his challenging task. Meanwhile, complications begins piling up as the dictionary department descends into chaos. What will Majime do?