Japan Society is proud to current the seventeenth annual JAPAN CUTS: Competition of New Japanese Movie, the most important competition of its type. This yr’s version will current over 30 movies spanning 12 days throughout Function Slate, Subsequent Technology, Classics, and Brief Movie sections, together with 5 Worldwide Premieres, 10 North American Premieres, 4 US Premieres, two East Coast Premieres, and 7 New York Premieres. Moreover, JAPAN CUTS will welcome over eight actors and administrators as particular friends and host three events.
The competition kicks off with the North American Premiere of Between the White Key and the Black Key (2023), starring Sosuke Ikematsu and that includes director Masanori Tominaga as a particular visitor. This movie begins the competition with a jazzy ode to Eighties Ginza, as free-flowing and ingenious as jazz itself.
Acclaimed actor Mirai Moriyama will obtain the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellent Achievement in Movie for his function on this yr’s Centerpiece Movie, Shadow of Fireplace (2023), from director Shinya Tsukamoto. Each Moriyama and Tsukamoto will make particular appearances on the movie’s premiere.
Performing legend Tatsuya Fuji will likely be introduced with a Lifetime Achievement Award following the New York Premiere of Kei Chika-ura’s Nice Absence (2023), with each Fuji and Chika-ura attending in individual. Fuji is Japanese performing royalty with a profession spanning 60 years, together with his iconic function in Nagisa Oshima’s Within the Realm of the Senses (1976). Nice Absence brings one in all Japan’s best actors along with one in all its rising administrators for a robust have a look at reminiscence, household, and loss. The movie additional co-stars CUT ABOVE winner Mirai Moriyama.
Different particular friends embody iconoclastic director Gakuryu Ishii, showing on the East Coast Premiere of The Field Man (2024) in addition to a retrospective screening of August within the Water (1995); director Noriko Yuasa on the Worldwide Premiere of Performing KAORU’s Funeral (2024), winner of the JAPAN CUTS Award on the 2024 Osaka Asian Movie Competition; and actress Tomoko Tabata on the restoration premiere of Shinji Somai’s undisputed masterpiece Transferring (1993).
Extra highlights of the competition embody the Worldwide Premiere of SHIN GODZILLA: ORTHOchromatic (2023), a black-and-white rendition of Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Godzilla masterpiece; KUBI (2023) from Takeshi Kitano, an irreverent historic massacre from one in all Japan’s most infamous creators; and Shunji Iwai’s Kyrie (2023), the story of a road musician who can not converse and might solely talk by way of track from the beautiful director of Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) and All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001).
JAPAN CUTS: Competition of New Japanese Movie takes place July 10–21 at Japan Society in New York Metropolis.
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