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What's Up Connection [In-Person Only]
Wed Mar 01: 7.00pm PDT
Thu Mar 02: 7.00pm PDT
Fri Mar 03: 7.00pm PDT
Sat Mar 04: 4.00pm PDT, 7.00pm PDT
Sun Mar 05: 7.00pm PDT
$14 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
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About
(Masashi Yamamoto, Japan & Hong Kong, 1990, 120 min, in English, Cantonese & Japanese with English subtitles)
When Hong Kong teenager Chi Gau Shin (Tse Wai Kit, School on Fire) wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from the secluded fishing village of Po Toi O to Tokyo, by way of Kamagasaki the so-called slums of Osaka. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide named Kumi and the shapeshifting, loud-mouthed and lovable thief Akane. Upon returning home with this merry band of schemers, Gau Shin finds his family of resourceful counterfeiters on the verge of expropriation. A multinational conglomerate led by a ruthless Japanese developer has found the village, and is determined to raze it to build the new center of world trade!
Whats Up Connections go-for-broke ambition one-ups Robinsons Garden (1987): its a rare bilingual Japan-Hong Kong coproduction that unfolds as part unhinged globalization mini-epic, fringe documentary and portrait of a crazy family (the Chi of the Chi family a homonym for crazy in Cantonese). A breathless, kaleidoscopic evocation of a specific pan-Asian cultural experience as the 1990s drew near, Whats Up has it all: Hongkongers looking to Japan for shopping and recreation; Japanese looking to Hong Kong for investment and opportunity and the gangsters, hackers, thieves and Taoist priests stuck in-between it all. Scored by avant-garde trumpeter Toshinori Kondo, here is a lively film that bursts at the seams with possibility and brings Yamamotos project of capturing beauty and resilience in the margins of capital to its maximalist apex.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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