Film Festival Preview: Japan Cuts 2012, 12-28 July
For its sixth consecutive year beginning tonight, Japan Cuts: the New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema, will screen nearly forty feature films, more films than it has ever had since its...
View ArticleJapan Cuts 2012: Monsters Club (2011)
After more than a four-year absence from filmmaking—principally due to his arrest in 2005 for possession of banned stimulants—Toyoda Toshiaki returned to cinema with the more than aptly titled The...
View ArticleJapan Cuts 2012: The Woodsman and the Rain (2011)
In his debut feature film Nankyoku ryorinin (2009), translated as “Antarctic cook,” Okita Shuichi presented an all-male scientific crew living and working together at the research facility Dome Fuji...
View ArticleJapan Cuts 2012: Lonely Swallows (2011)
Lonely Swallows is a documentary presented by the Hamamatsu Gakuin University, located in Hamamatsu, an industrial city dominated by auto industry; it is co-directed by Tsumura Kimihiro, a professor at...
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