Trailer: Like Father, Like Son
Like Father, Like Son is an intense-looking family drama from Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda. The story centers on a young family who realize ...
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Trailers
The Wind Rises delivers new trailer and controversy
With Studio Ghibli’s The Wind Rises sitting at number one for four weeks running in Japan, and what’s sure to be a successful festival ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Ravine of Goodbye
Sex in films is an odd thing. Personally, it bothers me. I tend to look away from the screen while sex scenes are ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Fly With the Gold
I don’t watch a whole lot of heist movies. It’s not that I don’t like them (I do), just that they don’t usually ...
Audience votes Hentai Kamen as best film of NYAFF 2013
At the beginning of every screening at the New York Asian Film Festival, the good folks at Subway Cinema handed out little slips ...
NYAFF Non-Review: Sion Sono’s Bad Film is a masterpiece
Sion Sono’s Bad Film is truly a movie that should not exist. Shot in the mid 90s on Hi8 video, the film ran ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Rurouni Kenshin
I have all 28 volumes of the Rurouni Kenshin manga. When I hear the first few notes of “Freckles,” I am suddenly returned ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Warped Forest
When I explained to a friend that I had just seen a film that featured trees that are actually women with skin colored “branches” ...
Reviews
NYAFF Review: Helter Skelter
It would seem to me that being a supermodel might actually be one of the most difficult jobs out there. It’s not the ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: A Woman and War
It’s hard to offend me. Really hard. For a while, I thought it might be almost impossible. Not even A Serbian Film offended me ...
Trailer: Gatchaman
Super Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (or known as Battle of the Planets in the English version) was one of my dad’s favorite cartoons. ...
Japan Cuts 2013 finishes what NYAFF started
So, we’ve been in and out of the Walter Reade theater at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, seeing movies, talking to people, ...