MY UNCLE(Special Screening)

Director Nobuhiro Yamashita’s adaptation of Morio Kita’s classic children’s book My Uncle provides a light, slice-of-life escape into a grade schooler’s account of his quirky uncle and their humorous misadventures. When Yukio has to write about an adult around him for a school assignment, he chooses his idler Uncle, a philosophy lecturer who spends all his time lying around and mooching off the family. Uncle is motivated like never before when he falls head over heels for Japanese-American Eri, but she soon returns to Hawaii. Determined to pursue his love, he heads to Hawaii with Yukio.