Exhibitions
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On display
Japanese Film Festival: The Wonderland バースデーワンダーランド
Film
Past event
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Free
The Embassy of Japan in New Zealand presents this screening as part of the Japanese Film Festival’s fascinating 2020 season. Enter into a fantasy world with Akane!
Akane is a shy, young girl. On the day before her birthday the enigmatic and fabled alchemist Hippocrates suddenly emerges from the basement of an antique store with his apprentice Pipo. They request Akane save their world and so she sets out on an adventure to save the parallel world, Wonderland.
Director: Keichi Hara, 2019, 115 minutes, classification TBC. Cast: Mayu Matsuoka, Anne Watanabe, Kumiko Aso, Masachika Ichimura.
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