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AIM FOR THE BEST: SPORTS IN JAPANESE CINEMA Launches At New York City’s Japan Society In April
The Tokyo Summer Games aren’t until July. For the good folks over at Japan Society, this week was still a perfect occasion to announce their Spring program, Aim for the Best: Sports in Japanese Cinema, enlisting a hearty round of more than a dozen titles.
JAPAN CUTS XIII: Dance With Me, Killing, Jesus, Night Cruising And More Outline Next Month’s Sprawling New York City Event
Following last week’s announcement of Japanese cinema auteur Shinya Tsukamoto’s centerpiece ceremony for this year’s Japan Cuts, the official line-up is now online from Japan Society along with a robust new trailer. The line-up is ripe with the usual assortment of features host to colorful cinematic stylings from a raft of directors on the feature-length and shortfilm front, as well as Q&A segments with directors.
Japan Society’s THE OTHER JAPANESE NEW WAVE: RADICAL FILMS FROM 1958-61 Looks To Do Rare Post WWII Films Justice
Japan Society is advancing a new film series next month with The Other Japanese New Wave: Radical Films from 1958-61. Author and researcher Go Hirasawa is curating the series which kicks off its slate of unearthed shorts and features from Japan’s bygone era of post-WWII cinema from April 5th through April 27th.
THE COMPLETE LONE WOLF AND CUB: Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For Japan Society’s Two-Day Event!
New York City’s Japan Society is delivering the six-part film series, The Complete Lone Wolf And Cub saga for a two-day marathon on January 25 and 26. Tickets are still selling via the official website and so to help spur the momentum, the organization released its promo for the event last week.
Hey New York! Start Your Year Off With THE COMPLETE LONE WOLF AND CUB At Japan Society Next Month!
Remember within the last two-and-a-half years when Steven Paul and Justin Lin were attached to their own respective Lone Wolf And Cub remakes? No? Well that’s okay. When there’s no movement on a project, it’s easy to lose track or interest. As the saying goes: Out of sight, out of mind.
JAPAN SOCIETY NYC Honors Late Legendary Cinematographer Miyagawa Kazuo Next Month
In the midst of the 20th century, noted cinematographer Miyagawa Kazuo left a body of work in Japanese cinema now celebrated by film fans to date. Such festivities are now the center of a retrospective courtesy of Japan Society Film in association with The Museum Of Modern Art with a raft of classic titles to be prsented in respective 4K and 35mm formats.
In celebration of the 110th anniversary of his birth, Japan Society presents an 11-film retrospective surveying the work of Kazuo Miyagawa (1908-1999), the most influential cinematographer of postwar Japanese cinema. Working intimately with directors like Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa on some of their most important films, Miyagawa pushed Japanese cinema to its highest artistic peaks through his lyrical, innovative and technically flawless camerawork. This career-spanning selection displays his great versatility, including major masterpieces and rarely shown titles, screening in 35mm and new digital restorations.
Co-organizer The Museum of Modern Art will host repeat screenings and additional Miyagawa retrospective titles from April 12-29. Preceding the retrospective, new 4K restorations of Mizoguchi’s A Story From Chikamatsu and Sansho the Bailiff, both shot by Miyagawa, will run at Film Forum from April 6-12.
Japan Society’s latest trailer samples a minor taste of things to come with more programming and schedule details at the official website for all those in New York City and otherwise in attendance. Enjoy the trailer below!
Hey New York City! Check Out What’s Ahead For JAPAN CUTS 2016 In July!
Make note of the embedded playlist below this paragraph with all the trailers available, and read the announcement just beneath with every single detail you could need, as well as links to the official Japan Society website!
THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN: Japan Society Announces Final Titles To Wrap Its John Zorn Line-Up
The eight shortfilms that will preceded it are by late animator and cartoonist Tezuka Osamu and will include the following:
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