Skopje, 10 June 2022 (MIA) — Seven contemporary Japanese movies will be screened during Japanese Film Week at the Cinematheque June 10-15. Japanese Ambassador Hironori Sawada will open the event at 8 pm, followed by a screening of Tatsuya Yamamoto’s “Nosari: Impermanent Eternity” (2021). Other films to be shown include Masaharu Take’s We Make Antiques (2018), Atsuhiro Yamada’s “Awake” (2020), Michio Koshikawa’s “After the sunset” (2019), Toshiyuki Teruya a.k.a. Gori-san’s “Born Bone Born” (2018), Tatsushi Omori’s “Every Day A Good Day” (2018), and Naoko Ogigami’s “Close-Knit” (2017). Two of them will also be screened in Bitola, on June 16 and 17. According to Japan’s ambassador, the films reveal Japan's diversity and bring people from different cultures closer together. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning “Drive My Car” (2021), based on a Haruki Murakami short story, will be shown to local audences later this summer, the ambassador added. mr/