EIFF Day 8

Our 8th day at the festival and the penultimate one for us provided to be one of the longest and best so far. Our first film, Namikibashi Shorts started at 14:45 and consisted of a number of hilarious short movies introducing Japanese customs in a tongue in cheek manner. After a short hour and a bit wait we headed to our second movie, I'm a cyborg: But that's ok. Directed by vengeance trilogy director Park Chan-Wook, it was a very dark romantic comedy about a young woman who believes herself to be a Cyborg. Almost directly after I'm a Cyborg ... was the World War II drama The Counterfeiters, which was excellent. A post film Q&A with Adolf Burger on whose memoirs the film was partially based was very insightful. We finished up back at the Filmhouse at 22:30 for our last show, Mirrorball : Made in Japan. A collection of Japanese music videos and shorts, Mirrorball is always entertaining and vibrant even if most of the music in the music videos is pretty poor. It did open with a Polysics video though, so not all the music was bad.