The 2025 Japanese film Mixed Modern (The Longing) (ミックスモダン), followed by Director Q & A, will play in Pittsburgh on September 25, part of this year's SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival.
Hiro yuki (Toshizo Fujiwara) and his wife Sono ko (Rino Tsuneishi) run an okonomiyaki restaurant which employs ex-youth offenders to help support their rehabilitation. Since an incident with a former employee a year ago, Hiro has been hounded by hate speech online. Nevertheless, he sticks to his principles at the restaurant. When he interviews the 18-year-old Yuto (Daiki Ido) in the detention center, the young man tells him: “I want the chance to start over!”, and Hiro hires him. After receiving his first pay packet, Yuto returns to his hometown to buy his father a gift but discovers that he has left town. Yuto’s mother already abandoned him when he was a child and now his father is gone, too. While out at a club, Yuto becomes fascinated with Yukiha (Sasha), a 17-year-old dancer at the club who was also recently released from juvenile detention.Tickets are free for those with a Pitt ID card---registration and promo code required---and $11 for everyone else. The movie begins at 8:00 pm at the Harris Theaer in downtown's Cultural District (map).
