Japanese movies at NYAFF 2010
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on May 20, 2010 1:12pm EDT (2 years ago)
Filed under: Events
This year Subway Cinema is announcing the lineup for the 2010 New York Asian Film Festival split up by country of origin; and conveniently for us, Japan is first up. The list includes two world premieres, two international premieres, five North American premieres, and an impressive list of guests.
The festival will be held at Lincoln Center from June 25 - July 8 with some co-presented screenings at Japan Society from July 1 - 4.
A few of the films listed are being presented with the overlapping Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 1 - July 16) which will feature 20 Japanese titles including Isshin Inudo’s “Zero Focus” remake.
Here’s the list of Japanese movies at NYAFF:
8000 Miles (2009, North American Premiere, Dir. Yu Irie in attendance)
8000 Miles 2: Girl Rappers (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Yu Irie in attendance)
Alien vs. Ninja (2010, World Premiere, Dir. Seiji Chiba, actor Masanori Mimoto in attendence)
Annyong Yumika (2009, North American Premiere, Dir. Tetsuaki Matsue in attendence)
The Blood of Rebirth* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Toshiaki Toyoda in attendence)
Boys on the Run* (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Daisuke Miura)
Confessions* (2010, International Premiere, Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)
Dear Doctor* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Miwa Nishikawa)
Doman Seman (2010, World Premiere, Dir. Go Shibata in attendence)
Golden Slumber* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Yoshihiro Nakamura)
Live Tape (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Tetsuaki Matsue in attendence, performance by singer/songwriter Kenta Maeno)
Mutant Girls Squad* (2010, International Premiere, Dir. Tak Sakaguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura in attendence, and Noboru Iguchi in attendence)
Sawako Decides* (2010, New York Premiere, Dir. Yuya Ishii)
Symbol (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Hitoshi Matsumoto)
Yatterman (2009, Dir. Takashi Miike)
* Presented with Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film
More info here!
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- Teaser for "Good Morning Everyone!" starring Kumiko Aso and Yo Oizumi
- Cat-filled special video for Naoko Ogigami's "Rent-a-Cat"
- New Trailer + making-of clip for Mika Ninagawa's "Helter Skelter"
- Full trailer for "Another" starring Kento Yamazaki and Ai Hashimoto
- Teaser for Shion Sono's "The Land of Hope"
- Suzuka Morita and Mariya Suzuki to star in two new horror movies
- And the new Sadako is... Ai Hashimoto!
- Comedian Teruyoshi Uchimura working on a film version of "Bokutachi no Koukan Nikki"
- Cannes trailer for Abbas Kiarostami's "Like Someone In Love"
- More cast members revealed for Takashi Miike's "Aku no Kyoten"
- Inudo and Higuchi's "The Floating Castle" to be released on November 2nd
- Former SDN48 member Megumi Ohori to star in "Kuchisake-onna Returns"
- Seishiro Kato to play a young Satoshi Tsumabuki in Takashi Miike's "For Love's Sake"
- KAT-TUN's Kazuya Kamenashi to star in Satoshi Miki's next film
- Behind the scenes clip released for Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage Beyond"
- New trailer for Gisaburo Sugii's "GuskÅ Budori no Denki"
- Trailer for idol-centric J-horror "Kotsutsubo"
- Trailer for the re-release of Toshiaki Toyoda's "9 Souls"
- First teaser for life-switching comedy "Kagi Dorobou no Method"
