Bicycle Film Festival Program 6: Keirin Queen/Onna Keirin Oh

Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 6:00pm
4:30pm
$8.00
At The Cedar
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KEIRIN QUEEN/ONNA KEIRN OH
Japan 1956 | DVD 88min.
Dir. Kokusai Hoei
A classic Japanese Keirin track film screened for the first time in the United States (with English subtitles)!
Miki, a daughter of a tiny fish storeowner in a mountain village, gains confidence riding a bicycle because of her morning routine of riding to the fish market. Miki starts training very hard at the Nippon Keirin School and begins to ride the road to success on the way to becoming a Keirin Queen.

Tickets are on sale online from Brown Paper Tickets.

Major Funders

This activity is funded, in part, by the Minnesota State Arts Board through the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.Minnesota State Arts BoardThe McKnight FoundationTarget

This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature from the Minnesota arts and cultural heritage fund with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008