Award-winning Japanese playwright and director Chong Wishing due in Manila

The Japan Foundation in Manila, through its annual film festival Eiga Sai, brings a talk on film production in Japan and the Philippines, as well as a film screening featuring a story about a Korean family residing in Japan, to the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) on August 16 to 17.

“Yakiniku Dragon” offers its viewers a look into the vigorous life of a Korean community in the 70s era Japan. In the outskirts of Osaka, in a squatter settlement on government property, a Korean family runs a barbecue restaurant. With a wife, three daughters and a son, the father Yong-gil lives with bravado but is gradually bombarded by the tides of the times.