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Movie Screening: 「風に立つライオン」 ”The Lion Standing in the Wind”

  • Sunday, February 07, 2016
  • Aratani Theatre (Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA)

Benefiting Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation (Aurora Foundation)

Sunday, February 7, 2016 2:00pm & 6:00pm

Aratani Theatre
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

In 1987, a Japanese doctor, Koichiro (Takao Osawa) , is dispatched  by a university hospital to a research facility in Kenya, Africa. This is a dream posting for Koichiro , whose medical career was inspired by Albert Schweitzer , a lifelong medical missionary in Africa. This assignment, however, also meant a long separation from his girlfriend, Takako , also a doctor, who had taken over her father’s practice on a remote
island in Japan.

The idealistic Koichiro is soon requested to work for one month at the local Red Cross Hospital. He is shocked by the overwhelming numbers of wounded child soldiers who are drugged and forced into combat, and decides to stay at this hospital. Dispatched from Japan to the same hospital is an extremely capable nurse Wakako (Satomi Ishihara) , and while butting heads, the two develop a bond of mutual respect. Welcoming the wounded boy soldiers with a warm “Okay! Daijobu!” Koichiro becomes not only their trusted doctor, but also their friend. 

One day, a child soldier named Ndung’u is carried into the hospital. Suffering from gunshot wounds, Ndung’u’s greater trauma was witnessing his parents’ massacre in front of his own eyes. Drugs mask his deep emotional scars. Koichiro confronts the boy’s physical and emotional wounds head on.

Movie is in Japanese, with English subtitles.

Tickets
$20 at the Door / 当日券
$ 15 Advanced Ticket / 前売り券
$15 Student, Senior, Aurora & JACCC Club Member

Tickets available at:
Kinokuniya Bookstore / 紀伊國屋書店
LA: 213-687-4480
Costa Mesa: 714-662-2319

Aurora Foundation: 323-882-6545 aurorafoundation@usa.net

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