Friday, September 23  07:30pm
NYU
19 University Pl, New York, NY 10003

Movie nights are catered mainly to students who are learning Japanese or who are interested in Japanese culture. Lots of students are inspired by Japanese movies, dramas, and anime and often those are the reasons why they started to study Japanese.

Sway (Yureru) 2006 will be shown in our first Japanese Movie Night

Director: Miwa Nishikawa (She has graduated from University of Waseda.)

Plot: Takeru returns to his small hometown to attend a Buddhist ceremony honoring his deceased mother. Takeru left his hometown many years ago. Since that time, he became a successful photographer, while his brother Mineru, was left behind to run their family’s modest gas station business.

When Takeru first arrived back in his hometown, he learned that his ex-girlfriend, Chie, is now working for their family gas station business. He watches his timid older brother work talk with Chie and instantly feels jealousy. That evening Takeru and Chie end up back at her apartment and the intimacy that they shared years ago are quickly rekindled.

The next day, at the insistence of Mineru, they all go together to the area known as “Hasumi Gorge” a beautiful mountainous area with a river and an old suspension bridge. On that fateful day, Chie tries to cross the swaying suspension bridge with Mineru closely behind her, but falls to her death.

Mineru is now on trial for the murder of Chie and his younger brother Takeru must now tie the pieces together to find out his innocence or guilt.

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