Director Kohei Oguri's first feature, Muddy River , was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film, and his The Sting of Death won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Sleeping Man provides a lyrical, elegaic look at a small village clustered around a hot spring. The title character is a man in a coma as a result of an accident in the surrounding mountains. As he lies alseep in his parents' home, the life of the village goes on around him but also includes him in its fabric. All are in Japanese with English subtitles.
Admission is free.