The inaugural Chobitto JAPAN film festival was held on an appropriately sultry summer evening in July 2006 at the stately Kochi Liberty and People's Rights Museum (自由民権記念館 Jiyu Minken Kinenkan ) conveniently located off the streetcar line on Sanbashi-dori, Approximately 150 guests attended along with a local NHK TV crew while 13 Submitters duked it out for supremacy. NHK TV show about the 2006 event. (Approx 8 min) "NIgh on Gestallt" a slideshow submitted by Jamil, an exchange student from Brazil. 2006 film by James Lord about Hongawa-mura, a small village in the mountains where he lived. What's Kochi famous for? Nice beaches, good food, rabble rousers... oh yeah, and forcing each other to drink too much Alycia Wylczjevowicz' short take comparing Kochi City's Kagami River to those in her native Poland. There was a loophole that year for pre-1989 East Bloc music. The deep and timelessly moving classic of human redemption and sports drinks, "Homer's Aqvarius," by Gerard Marchesseau and Owen Wade. Banquished! |