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...
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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...
Setsuko Hara (#botd) at her home in Komae, Tokyo on February 25, 1960.
17.06.2025 16:04 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Toshiro Mifune with his wife Sachiko and sons Shiro and Takeshi.
15.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tatsuya Nakadai in Tokyo, circa 1964.
14.06.2025 13:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Lineup for one of the best film festivals in the country just dropped
03.06.2025 16:24 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Hell yeah, they're showing LOVE LETTER by Shunji Iwai
03.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1My 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
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.
Nobuhiko Obayashi and Tomoyo Harada on the set of THE LITTLE GIRL WHO CONQUERED TIME (1983).
04.02.2025 14:13 — 👍 43 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0School 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...
The Japan Society has done it again. A six film Obayashi in the 80s series coming in February.
japansociety.org/film/obayash...?