Film Series Oct. 28 Tokyo Sonata

October 20, 2009 / Bryan / Leave a comment

Oct. 28 Tokyo Sonata 7:30 PM

Kiyoshi Kurosawa
119 minutes, Japan/The Netherlands/HongKong/ China, NR, Japanese with English subtitles. Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Haruka Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki.

filmthree Loyal salaryman, Ryuhei, loses his job when his company begins outsourcing to China. Incapable of facing the tragedy of his new reality, he hides his loss from his family and pretends he’s still employed. At home he tries to maintain the normal routine but it soon becomes clear that the entire family is lost in a tragic deception with each other member. In this film, Kurosawa weaves a fascinating tale of ruin and redemption in this poignant domestic drama.

Director Filmography Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s directing style has been compared to that of Stanley Kubrick in that many of his films are concerned in some form, with the way society shapes the individual, personal obsessions with some eccentric project or how social mechanisms disintegrate when faced with the wholly irrational. Kurosawa first achieved international acclaim with his 1997 film Kyua (Cure).

Tickets:
Season subscription 5 films $40
individual ticket 1 film $9
Individual tickets are available during the week prior to the film at the Huronia Museum or are sold subjec to availability at the door of the Galaxy Theatre.

Photo of Curator J. Hunter and long-time tree bark supplier Ed LePage

October 15, 2009 / Bryan / Leave a comment

L. Jamie Hunter, Curator, R. Ed LePage, holding some of the tree bark

Ed is from the Cornwall, Ontario area and has been supplying tree bark for the Huron Village since 1972. Recently for exterior cover of the long house, the museum has switched to a man-made rubber bark, but continues to use natural tree bark for all interior coverings of the long house and other smaller shelters in the Huron Village. Natural tree bark lasts 6-8 years, rubber bark is hoped to last 25 years.

The bark used in the village comes from elm, basswood, and ash trees.

Ed has supplied tree bark to Ste. Marie Among the Hurons since 1970. He is 73 years young and enjoys getting double the money from his firewood business, money from the wood and money from the bark.