Despite a smaller turnout than last year, the fifth annual Japanese Movies at the Crest Film Festival had a great turnout this weekend at the two-day event. The festivities were kicked off with a showing of Love and Honor on Friday evening. The winner of three Japanese Academy Awards in 2007, the film pleased the audience with a drama about two samurais that go head-to-head. Saturday's lineup opened with a black-and-white docu-drama filmed in 1951, Go for Broke!, which stars actual Nisei (second generation Japanese-American) soldiers from World War II. At intermission, Nisei war veteran James Iso took the stage to give commentary about both the movie and his own experiences during the w

This weekend a little piece of the huge Japanese culture will be brought to Sacramento during the 5th Annual Japanese Movies at the Crest film festival. The two-day festival, first started in 2005, will screen one film on Friday, May 15 and four others on Saturday, May 16. The event is being sponsored by the Sacramento Japanese United Methodist Church (SJUMC) and will be featuring a variety of films, spanning not only the decades but the genres as well, from an award-winning anime film to a PBS World War II documentary. "[The festival] started because Japanese film is an international influence in cinema and the best of current Japanese films are not screened in Sacramento, " said Barbar