Bunny Drop (Usagi Doroppu)
2011 | Live Action | 114 min | NR
State Theatre -Screen 1
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2016 7:00 PM
Part of the CineManga Film Series Presented by the U-M Center for Japanese Studies
Plays Wednesday, Ferbuary 17 at 7:00 PM at the State. Part of the CineManga Film Series.
Presented by the U-M Center for Japanese Studies with additional support from Vault of Midnight.
Featuring a special pre-show primer by Yuki Nakayama from University of Michigan's Screen Arts and Culture.
Celebrated Japanese actor turned writer/director SABU delivers this live action drama, based on the manga of the same name by Yumi Unita. Daikichi (played by Japanese Academy Award-Winner Matsuyama Ken'ichi) is an unmarried office worker who ends up living with the six-year-old illegitimate child of his dead grandfather. This girl then helps bring a new definition to family while her family comes together to determine her fate.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.