Bicycle Film Festival: Program 14 (Keirin + Keirin Queen/Onna Keirin Oh)

by calendar on June 14, 2009

When
June 21, 2009   9:15 pm - 10:45 pm
Where
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Av. (at 2nd St.)
Manhattan
Cost
$10
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Bicycle Film Festival

Program hosted by NEW YORK-TOKYO

KEIRIN
Dir. Giovanni Giommi
A beautifully shot portrait of Japanese Track Racers directed by the director of LES NINJA DU JAPON + TRAILER.

KEIRIN QUEEN/ONNA KEIRIN OH
Japan 1956 | DVD 88min.
Dir. Kokusai Hoei
A classic Japanese Keirin track film screened for the first time in the United
States (with English subtitles)!
Miki, a daughter of a tiny fish storeowner in a mountain village, gains confidence riding a bicycle because of her morning routine of riding to the fish market. Miki starts training very hard at the Nippon Keirin School and begins to ride the road to success on the way to becoming a Keirin Queen.