Four Oscar Shorts Add a 10-Day Run at Fukuoka's Yet Cinema Club
The Academy's short film categories draw global attention each year, but the winning and nominated live-action shorts rarely reach Japanese screens at all, so a 15-seat Fukuoka house running them for 10 days is the kind of small-venue booking that decides how far this program actually travels.
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SAMANSA has added a limited 10-day run at Fukuoka's Yet Cinema Club starting Friday, October 23 for the four live-action shorts from its 2026 Academy Award program. The winner "Two People Exchanging Saliva" and nominees "Jane Austen's Period Drama," "A Friend of Dorothy," and "Butcher's Stain" screen there. Yet Cinema Club opened in Ohashi, Minami Ward, in February 2026 with about 15 seats.
Yet Cinema Club is not a standard multiplex booking. The venue opened in Ohashi, Minami Ward, in February 2026 with roughly 15 seats and adjoins the bookstore fuzkue, so the run is built around reading and film together rather than volume. The Fukuoka dates sit inside a wider rollout that has already passed through Theater Umeda, Midland Square Cinema in Nagoya, and Sapporo Cinema Frontier from September 11, with Kyoto Cinema running from October 16 and five AEON Cinema locations starting October 30.
- Two People Exchanging Saliva: Live Action Short Film winner
- Jane Austen's Period Drama: nominated
- A Friend of Dorothy: nominated
- Butcher's Stain: nominated
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