{"id":31070,"date":"2013-07-08T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2013-07-08T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T16:21:53","slug":"japan-cuts-the-new-york-festival-of-contemporary-japanese-cinema-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=31070","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

“North America’s premiere showcase for Japanese film” (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema is back! In its seventh season, with 10 days of screenings and over 20 titles, JAPAN CUTS 2013 presents the roughest, sharpest, and smoothest of today\u2019s cutting-edge Japanese film scene, encompassing bigger-than-life blockbusters, high-concept art house titles, moving and provoking documentaries, delirious rom-coms, refined melodramas and a handful of UFOs\u2014unidentified film objects. Taking place from July 11 to 21, JAPAN CUTS 2013 again dovetails with the New York Asian Film Festival (in its 12th edition, June 28-July 15), which co-presents 12 films from July 11-14.<\/p>\n

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From the deep to the deeply depraved, the fantastic to the fetishistic, the outstanding to the outrageous, JAPAN CUTS 2013 selections have the typical blend of unbending artistry and rebellious eccentricity, that has made the brand of the festival. Hard, rough, sharp, smooth and soft-edged: such is today’s film scene from Japan. Highlights include the smash-hit samurai blockbuster Rurouni Kenshin; Toshiaki Toyoda\u2019s bloody, trippy, return-to-roots gangster thriller I\u2019M FLASH!; the star-studded road drama Dearest, a formidable shrine to film legend Ken Takakura; Yuichi Fukuda\u2019s off-the-wall pervy twist to the superhero genre, Hentai Kamen: The Forbidden Superhero; the dark, controversial sex-thriller A Woman and War in the vein of the late Koji Wakamatsu\u2019s best films; Satoshi Miki\u2019s mind-warping, bizarre, Spike Jonze-esque It\u2019s Me It\u2019s Me (featuring popstar Kazuya Kamenashi of KAT-TUN); Eiki Takahashi\u2019s absorbing glimpse into the glitzy world of Japanese pop music, DOCUMENTARY OF AKB48: Show must go on; the North American premiere of Sion Sono\u2019s 20-years-in-the-making underground science-fiction\/gangster film Bad Film; the winner of the 36th Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture and Best Director, The Kirishima Thing; plus the new film from the wildly prolific auteur Takashi Miike, the psycho killer-teacher horror film Lesson of the Evil, a return to the director\u2019s signature gonzo schlockmeister approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“North America’s premiere showcase for Japanese film” (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema is back! In its seventh season, with 10 days of screenings and over 20 titles, JAPAN CUTS 2013 presents the roughest, sharpest, and smoothest of today\u2019s cutting-edge Japanese film scene, encompassing bigger-than-life blockbusters, high-concept art house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-up-to-date-news-on-everything-asian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31072,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31070\/revisions\/31072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}