{"id":44307,"date":"2026-02-27T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/event\/24th-japan-film-festival-the-art-of-bathing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:19:41","slug":"24th-japan-film-festival-the-art-of-bathing","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/event\/24th-japan-film-festival-the-art-of-bathing\/","title":{"rendered":"24th Japan Film Festival. \u201eYudo: The Way of the Bath\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Japan in Lithuania together with the Japan Foundation invites Klaip\u0117da residents and visitors to the 24th Japan Film Festival!<\/p>\n<p>On 28 February at 18:00, a screening of the film &#8220;The Art of Bathing&#8221; will take place.  <\/p>\n<p>Free screening.<br \/>\nFree tickets will be distributed at the Arlekino cinema box office before the screening. Seats are limited. <\/p>\n<p>About the film:<\/p>\n<p>The Art of the Bath (2023, 126 min), N-7<\/p>\n<p> Director: Masayuki Suzuki<br \/>\nOriginal language: Japanese<br \/>\nSubtitles: lithuanian, english<br \/>\nGenre: comedy<\/p>\n<p>Screenwriter Kundo Koyama, the Oscar-winning creator of Departures and the &#8220;father&#8221; of Kumamoto Prefecture&#8217;s legendary Kumamoto mascot, Kumamon, once again proves his ability to find human warmth in the most unexpected places. This time, he turns to the tradition of bathing, which is deeply rooted in Japanese culture, to present bathing in a public bath as a distinctive art form, which he has been consistently cultivating for more than a decade. <\/p>\n<p>When architect Shiro Miura&#8217;s business fails in the big city, he reluctantly returns to his hometown and the public bath he inherited from his father with his younger brother, where unresolved issues of family and life simmer quietly beneath the steam. Surrounded by daily rituals and warm steam, Shiro gradually realises that inner peace lies where he once tried to escape.<br \/>\nSee you at the cinema! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Embassy of Japan in Lithuania together with the Japan Foundation invites Klaip\u0117da residents and visitors to the 24th Japan Film Festival! On 28 February at 18:00, a screening of the film &#8220;The Art of Bathing&#8221; will take place. Free screening. Free tickets will be distributed at the Arlekino cinema box office before the screening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[507],"class_list":["post-44307","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-cinema"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/44307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44307"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=44307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}