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The leading presenter of Japanese cinema for more than 50 years | Classics & premieres @japansociety.org‬ in NYC. Organizers of #JAPANCUTS since 2007: japansociety.org/film

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Blue Fight (aka Blazing Fists) (Miike Takashi, 2025) A slightly different version of this was originally published at InReview Online as part of their coverage of the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam. I watched two films for this year’s IFFR....

Japan Cuts wrapped over the weekend, here's all my coverage in one thread, starting with a review of Miike Takashi's Blazing Fists (aka Blue Fight)

www.thechinesecinema.com/blue-fight-a...

21.07.2025 13:57 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Setsuko Hara (#botd) at her home in Komae, Tokyo on February 25, 1960.

17.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Toshiro Mifune with his wife Sachiko and sons Shiro and Takeshi.

15.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tatsuya Nakadai in Tokyo, circa 1964.

14.06.2025 13:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Lineup for one of the best film festivals in the country just dropped

03.06.2025 16:24 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Hell yeah, they're showing LOVE LETTER by Shunji Iwai

03.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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My heart beat faster because of the sudden switch in her [Kaede’s] personality… I knew right away that I had to get that role.”—Mieko Harada

The only actress that Kurosawa offered the role to, Harada would declare, “frankly, I think she’s really super.”

RAN screens 6/20 in 35mm: japansoc.org/Ran

13.06.2025 13:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Just announced! CHAO, the highly anticipated feature debut from veteran animator Yasuhiro Aoki, will open #JAPANCUTS Powered by GU on July 10.

🎟️ Tickets on sale now: japansoc.org/3FFqzs4

Presented in collaboration with @gkids.com.

10.06.2025 14:04 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Nobuhiko Obayashi and Tomoyo Harada on the set of THE LITTLE GIRL WHO CONQUERED TIME (1983).

04.02.2025 14:13 — 👍 43    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

School In The Crosshairs is the popular pick (aliens, teens, heavier Hausu-style FX), but don’t miss Obayashi’s nostalgic hometown farewell masquerading as gender-swap teen comedy I Are You You Am Me in @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social ‘s upcoming 80s Obayashi series

www.screenslate.com/articles/i-a...

08.01.2025 15:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Obayashi '80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years Japan Society presents Obayashi '80s, a six-film program centered on Nobuhiko Obayashi's 1980s youth films, with a rare focus on his rarely-screened Onomichi trilogy and his years with Kadokawa.

The Japan Society has done it again. A six film Obayashi in the 80s series coming in February.

japansociety.org/film/obayash...?

08.01.2025 14:41 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

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