13th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 27 - Jul 14, 2014

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North American Premiere

All-Round Appraiser Q: The Eyes of Mona Lisa

万能鑑定士 Q モナ リザの瞳

The Japanese will always have Paris! In this adaptation of the arch-popular eponymous mystery novel by Matsuoka Keisuke, the city of l'art et l'amour provides the gorgeous backdrop for a grand intrigue involving the world's most iconic artistic treasure: the Mona Lisa. Armed with quasi-supernatural powers of deduction, bottomless knowledge on a limitless array of subjects, and, last but not least, cute-and-sexy librarian good looks that would give Audrey Tautou a run for her money, Rinda Riko (Ayase Haruka) is a brilliant appraiser whose “All-Around Appraiser Q” reputation earns the attention of the Louvre as a Mona Lisa exhibition is to be held for the first time in Japan. Accompanied by sidekick Ogasawara Yuto (Tori Matsuzaka), a magazine editor who follows Rinda for professional and possibly more personal purposes, she goes to Paris and finds her judgment challenged by the shroud of mystery and threats of theft surrounding the masterpiece as well as the Mona Lisa itself. Minds will be blown, puzzles will be solved, but will a 500-year-old curse be removed? From the director who gave you the blockbusters Gantz and Library Wars.

Director: Sato Shinsuke
Cast: Murakami Hiroaki, Charles Deladonchamps, Hatsune Eriko, Matsuzaka Tori, Ayase Haruka
Languages: Japanese with English subtitles
2014; 119 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Sunday July 13, 5:30pm
Japan Society