Japan Society Film
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The leading presenter of Japanese cinema for more than 50 years | Classics & premieres @japansociety in NYC. Organizers of #JAPANCUTS since 2007.
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Rarely seen outside Japan and a cult item abroad, REX: A DINOSAUR'S STORY remains one of the most expensive Japanese films of all time; a dinosaur picture released a month after JURASSIC PARK directed by industry disruptor Haruki Kadokawa just before his public fall from grace.
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With Seijun Suzuki's madman bravura, YUMEJI portrays the famed artist-poet Yumeji Takehisa as a Taisho-era Casanova, swept up in dreams of his own mortality while pursuing an unattainable beauty. YUMEJI premieres in a new 4K restoration—not yet screened outside of Japan—on 2/13.
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Rarely seen outside of Japan since it was pulled from theaters at the height of its success, Haruki Kadokawa's REX: A DINOSAUR'S STORY—a cult work of family entertainment—screens as part of #JAPANCUTS Classics, possibly for the first time in North America.
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A self-reflexive adaptation of the titular Kadokawa novel, the virtuosic W’S TRAGEDY reframes its source material as a play within the film—one that starts to mirror the blurred reality of Hiroko Yakushimaru’s aspiring starlet. Int premiere of 4K restoration tomorrow.
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Reworking the plot of LATE SPRING, Yasujiro Ozu’s masterpiece LATE AUTUMN stars Setsuko Hara—no longer the ebullient ingénue—as serene and composed widow Akiko whose daughter Ayako becomes the unwitting subject of an orchestrated matchmaking. Screens next Fri 3/6 on 35mm.
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THE YOUTH KILLER co-stars Mieko Harada, best known as the viperous Lady Kaede in Kurosawa’s RAN, as Yutaka Mizutani’s ebullient, strong-willed girlfriend—a role that, along with her performance in Masumura’s LULLABY OF THE EARTH, would earn her Kinema Junpo’s Best Actress award.
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We're excited to share an message from director Ryusuke Hamaguchi in advance of our series “Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan”—opening next Thurs 10/9. Watch Hamaguchi's full intro to Hasumi and his series recs here:
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David Lynch's message to Japanese TWIN PEAKS viewers, 2017.
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Shiguéhiko Hasumi discussing the parallels between TOKYO DRIFTER and SONATINE with Takeshi Kitano at the Tokyo International Film Festival, 1996. Other panelists included Sadao Yamane, Hou Hsiao-hsien (who also maintained close ties with Hasumi), Tony Rayns and Thierry Jousse.
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