SHIROYAMI ~White Darkness~

Please join us for a screening of "Shiroyami" an engaging new doc from Japan about recovery from addiction. This screens is a part of the first Nippon America Discovery Film Festival (NADf2) presented by Nippon America Discovery Committee at the Anthology Film Archives (AFA) this weekend! A live version of this story was previously presented at CRS and we are delighted to support this incarnation.
https://www.nadf2.com

NADf2 is produced in part by Hiroshi Kono of Mar Creation, Inc., who has curated a number of concerts and film screenings at CRS over the years and who also produces the excellent Japan CineFest at Asia Society every year.NADf2 focuses on Japanese documentary films and introduces films that depict and capture real Japan. The film festival will take place at AFA in the East Village, New York City, in November 16 and 17, 2018.

SHIROYAMI ~White Darkness~
Director: Masabumi Uchiya / Drama / 115min. / 2017 / Japan
Cast: Saku Momose, Ryota Ozawa, Kuniharu Tokunaga, Asami Shinohara, Tamehiro Muata, Kengo Yokozeki, Jyuri, Eri Mitsutou, Yuto Nagayoshi

Date: Friday, November 16, 2018
Show: 6:30PM
Venue: Anthology Film Archives
Address: 32 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (@ 2nd Street)
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3819182

Description: Shun starts seeing hallucinations in the shape of “white devil.” A ray of light shines through the darkness... Shun and his family begin the long and slow path to recovery...

Synopsis: Shun is introduced to marijuana by his brother, Masa, a casual drug user. After being arrested for pot smoking, Shun spends a few nights in prison and meets his cellmate, a drug dealer who drags Shun into the drug business and subsequent heavy drug use. Shun then begins to show the effects of drugs including the loss of physical and mental senses, and starts seeing hallucinations in the shape of “white devil.”

Now a legitimate drug addict, Shun is admitted to a mental hospital where his condition, through a heavy usage of tranquilizers, becomes worse.

Just when the family is about give up on Shun, a ray of light shines through the darkness ‒ The encounter with a former drug addict who has established a drug rehab center to help fellow drug addicts stay away from the white devil’s temptation and set their feet in the real world once again.

Shun and his family begin the long and slow path to recovery...