Free Film Screening: The Chatterboxes (みんな、おしゃべり!) Japan

Event Date: April 11, 2026 (4-6:30PM)

Two young people from different cultures are caught in an intercultural inter-family conflict in this comedy of errors

Japan | Comedy | 2025 | 143 minutes 

In Japanese, Japanese Sign Language, Kurdish, Turkish, Chinese, American Sign Language w/ English and Japanese Subtitles 

Director: Ken Kawai 

Screenwriter: Ken Kawai, Kyohei Otoguro, Haruka Takenami

Starring: Itsuki Nagasawa, Kazuyoshi Kezuka, Yildirm Firat, Murat Çiçek

Film Source: Nikkatsu

When a minor argument turns into a brawl between a deaf appliance storeowner and a newly arrived Kurdish family, their respective adult children must step in to act as interpreters and mediators. But even as the two interpreters become friends, the conflict continues to escalate.  

A breakdown in communication escalating to an all-out brawl seems like the perfect way to characterize inter-cultural conflicts in contemporary Japanese society. Director Ken Kawai, a real-life CODA (child of deaf parents), shows with his crowd-pleaser what happens when we are so busy with arguing that we forget to listen to one another.  

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Presented by Sophia’s Choice, Asian Pop-Up Cinema (亞洲躍動電影展) (APUC), is an Asian film festival in Chicago, providing a platform for specially curated Asian films in their original languages with English subtitles.

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Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtimes.

NOTE:

Since this is an Admissions Free event with high volume of no-shows, per our venue host's suggestion, we are accepting RSVPs 50% beyond the seating capacity. Therefore your registration DOES NOT guarantee your seats inside the auditorium. Seats availability is served on a first-come-first-served basis presenting us their QR coded individual tickets or per their names. The doors will open 30 minutes for seating prior to the event ONLY. Please try to come early or on time.

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