Posted by kevin at 2:49am EDT on Friday, June 6, 2008
Filed under: Events
The schedule for Subway Cinema‘s 2008 New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) will include 43 movies to be screened at two venues in New York City from June 20th to July 6th, with 27 of them originating from Japan. Of particular note is the world premiere of Ryo Iwamatsu’s much-anticipated Then Summer Came, starring Joe Odagiri, Yoshio Harada, and Kumiko Aso. I’m personally excited to see Arch Angels getting some love, since it was one of the funner movies of 2006 and deserves to finally get some attention. Delcea Mihaela Gabriela will be a household name soon, mark it down. I also predict Chanbara Beauty, aka Onechanbara will change lives and eventually bring about world peace. Okay, enough blabbering! Check out the schedule and trailer for the event below. I patiently, lovingly highlighted the Japanese movies and added Subway Cinema links where available.
Posted by kevin at 7:31pm EDT on Thursday, May 22, 2008
Filed under: Events, Movie people
Film Forum will be holding a four-week, 24-film retrospective of prolific Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai from June 20th to July 24th in New York City. Nakadai will also be in the US from June 20th to June 24th for various events in New York and Washington DC. For full information on the event check out the newsletter here and the event’s homepage here.
Nakadai is a veteran of over 130 films in a career spanning over 50 years, making him arguably the most prominent living actor from the golden age of Japanese cinema. Aside from screenings of some of his more well-known films like Yojimbo and Harakiri Film Forum also has imported a few rare 35mm prints for the retrospective, including the late Kon Ichikawa’s Conflagration, Odd Obsession, and I Am Cat.
Update: More movies were added and the retrospective will now end on August 7.
Posted by kevin at 6:04am EDT on Friday, February 15, 2008
Filed under: Events
Yesterday the full schedule for Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival 2008 was released. Today they put up an English-version of the schedule on their website. Jae-young Kwak’s “My Girlfriend Is a Cyborg” will be the first official selection screened after opening ceremonies on March 20th. Noboru Iguchi’s “The Machine Girl” will premiere on 3/22 at 10:30 PM coupled with the trailer for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s “Tokyo Gore Police”.
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