Love and VIZ Cinema

Love is in the air as we get closer to Valentine’s Day. San Francisco’s VIZ Cinema is releasing two new movies for February.

First up is Josee, The Tiger and The Fish, which is screening February 5th-18th. This movie is about a college student, Tsuneo, who meets a young woman named Kumiko, aka Josee, who embraces life with her feisty personality, even though she has cerebral palsy and a baby buggy for transportation. This movie has already won a lot of awards in Japan, and it seems to be a very sweet, feel-good kind of movie.

Then there is La Maison De Himiko, showing from February 18th until March 4th. Family secrets, redemption, and the power of love in aiding to renew family bonds are explored with a father and daughter who cant understand each other and a man and woman who can’t love each other. The odd and beautiful stories are brought to life against the backdrop of a homosexual retirement home. Saori despises her father, who left her mother to live his new life “out of the closet.” Their family ties are remembered as she learns about her father’s cancer. Her curiosity is piqued by a mysterious young man who gives her the message and claims to be her father’s lover.

VIZ Cinema is at 1746 Post St. in San Francisco’s Japantown. It’s right across the street from the Peace Pagoda. If you’re in San Francisco and feel like catching a movie, be sure to go while these movies are out.