NYAFF Review: Lesson of the Evil
Takashi Miike, who makes at least a dozen films a year, has been off making Samurai films and videogame adaptations instead of the blood-drenched ...
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NYAFF Review: The Complex
Director Hideo Nakata is best known for 1998’s Ringu (The Ring), the film that kicked off a wave of international interest in J-horror at ...
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Japan Cuts Review: A Story of Yonosuke
A Story of Yonosuke clocks in at 160 minutes, which is a good chunk of time to spend with the title character and ...
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Japan Cuts Review: Thermae Romae
The plot of Thermae Romae sounds like it was born from a drunken night of playing Mad Libs: a bath house architect from ...
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Review: It’s Me It’s Me
Doppelgangers are the stuff of horror and of comedy. It would be uncanny to see yourself as a stranger — the self’s own ...
Trailer: Frozen
We’ve got our first real in-motion look at Disney’s upcoming Frozen thanks to a new Japanese trailer that found its way onto the web. ...
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NYAFF Review: Helter Skelter
It would seem to me that being a supermodel might actually be one of the most difficult jobs out there. It’s not the ...
Giant Studio Ghibli mural brings the memories back
We’re nearing the Japanese release of both of Studio Ghibli’s next films — Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises) comes out on July 20 and ...
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Teaser Trailer: The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu)
Here is your first very brief look at Hayao Miyazaki’s new film, The Wind Rises. The footage aired on Japanese television and reveals ...
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Japan Cuts Review: A Woman and War
It’s hard to offend me. Really hard. For a while, I thought it might be almost impossible. Not even A Serbian Film offended me ...
Trailer: Gatchaman
Super Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (or known as Battle of the Planets in the English version) was one of my dad’s favorite cartoons. ...
Japan Cuts 2013 finishes what NYAFF started
So, we’ve been in and out of the Walter Reade theater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, seeing movies, talking to people, ...