Japanese Film Series: Thermae Romae

Monday, January 26, 2015 - 4:00pm
Maginnes Hall 113

Based on an award winning, best-selling manga series by Mari Yamazaki. Lucius (Abe), an architect of spa baths for the Roman Empire, inadvertently travels through time and finds himself in a modern Japanese bathhouse. He takes elements of Japanese culture that he learns there back with him to Rome and is hugely successful, which leads the Emperor to command him to build a massive spa.  [WorldCat]  (108 min.  Japanese with English subtitles) Free & Open ONLY to Lehigh students/faculty/staff.