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In her sacred surroundings, Maki learns to blend ancient customs with modern love. Eventually, they search for the stranger named on the marriage certificate. Returning to her hometown of Izumo, known for the oldest Shinto shrine in Japan, she’s thrown together with a crass fisherman who once performed traditional folk dances. When her grandmother dies suddenly, Maki discovers a bridal kimono and marriage certificate with a stranger’s name written on it. But Maki worries that her fiancé never argues with her and wonders if that will spoil their marriage. Yes, love wins in the end, but at the cost of convincing women they should be beautiful because being brainy is not enough.Įnishi: the Bride of Izumo is the tale of a modern Tokyo woman, Maki (Nozomi Sasaki) engaged to a modern Tokyo man, Kazunori (Yuta Hiraoka). With her usual lack of tact, Lily convinces her best friend Seema (Kosha Patel) to be her stylist, mainly because she’s clueless about Indian culture. Somehow, that seems odd for a girl who is ambitious, competitive and even finds her own mother’s status as a noted poet too artistic and not academically acceptable. So when she discovers her boyfriend Karim (Kunal Sharma) has dumped her for a former beauty queen, she comes up with the convoluted idea that she needs to win a pageant to keep him. Lily (Tiya Sircar) is always first-the valedictorian of her high school class and champion of everything. A heart-wrenching tale, this film is in Kapampangan with English subtitles.Īs rom-coms go, Miss India America is light in romance and heavier in comedy. Meanwhile, a corrupt funeral home owner, who buys cadavers illegally to sell to medical students, pesters Randy. He’s even given the chore of building the coffin for the deceased.
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Then, a horrible accident forces Randy to manage all the details surrounding a death while overwhelmed with grief. After all, there’s plenty of it as the laborers toil at building 200 coffins for typhoon victims before their corpses decompose-even working overtime on the graveyard shift. Unable to afford a doctor when Angeline falls ill, Randy, instead, confines her at home while continuing to report to work. His much younger girlfriend constantly demands gifts and openly resents how he prioritizes his daughter.
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Working as a coffin maker, Randy is frustrated with his poor economic status. Her mother has relinquished custody in order to appease her white American boyfriend with whom she also has a child. In a small Philippines village, Randy (Alan Dizon) lives with his eight-year old daughter, Angeline (Felixia Crysten Dizon). The Coffin Maker also deals with the raw aftermath following the sudden death of a loved one. “They say the rituals help the departed to pass on,” says Ming, “but it’s more like reminding us they are really gone. The authenticity of the script is attributable to director Tom Lin Shu-Yu, who wrote it after his wife unexpectedly passed away in 2012. Insensitive relatives and acquaintances blurt out the unbelievable, with one adolescent telling Wei she knows how he feels because her dog just died. Wei is obliged to return tuition money to his wife’s piano students, while Ming has to deal with useless wedding invitations and an already paid for honeymoon in Okinawa. As both Wei (Shih Chin-hang also known as rocker Stone) and Ming (Hong Kong actress Karena Lam) navigate through the painful fog of their abrupt losses, they find themselves struggling in challenging situations. Wei‘s wife was pregnant, while Ming was planning her wedding she and her fiancé had even bought their new house already. Both were looking forward to happy futures. In Zinnia Flower, two people lose their partners in separate cars in the same accident. But bereavement follows no timetable and, as anyone who’s lost someone can attest, grief is different for everyone. Watch for the following possibilities.Ī Taiwanese Buddhist ritual dictates that the mourning period for a loved one last exactly 100 days. Several narratives at this year’s Hawai‘i International Film Festival will likely become theatrical releases in the future. ‘Mojin: The Lost Legend’ opens December 18 at AMC Pacific Place 11.