In collaboration with the A.S.C.I.G. – Association for Cultural Exchanges between Italy and Japan, treated by Marco Del Bene and Gabriele Scardovi, was born estAsia, the new section of the festival dedicated to Japanese and Asian cinema.
The 2017 edition of Ottobre Giapponese, this year included in Ravenna Nightmare Film Fest program, will focus on the relationship between man, technology and machine in the popular culture of contemporary Japan. The questions, which have been extensively explored in all the European and Asian philosophical traditions, the nature of man, the machine, and the dialectical relationship between them, especially, but not exclusively in Japan, have a very lively cultural production in all areas, from literary and more artistic to pop culture. The screening consists of four screenings, introduced by curators, in which the films have been chosen based on different thematic tracks. First, the hybridization between man and machine and the loss / preservation of individual identity, Ghost in The Shell 2 – Innocence by Mamoru Oshii, the machine as a tool of progress but also of destruction Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt by Kô Matsuo, the man who finds his identity literally falling into the car Robo-G by Shinobu Yaguchi, the technology that absorbs, muddens and threatens to annihilate man Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo.
