© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved, Courtesy of Kino Films, “Aircarft Carrier Ibuki” Anna Sawai, who recently won an Emmy for her work in “Shōgun“, will be joining the cast of “Enemies” with Austin Butler and Jeremy Allen White, as well as Hidetoshi Nishijima, who played a leading role in the Oscar-winning film “Drive My…
©Courtesy of Japan Cuts In Takeshi Kitano’s gangster movies, a lot of fingers get chopped. For this samurai historical epic, he steps up to head-chopping. To be fair, Kitano’s yakuza probably lopped off a few heads of their own, but during Japan’s Sengoku Era, collecting severed heads was the preferred method of proving the death…
I’ll remember it all. Though I won’t recall it. The words echo in the theater and a man’s androgynous face makes expressive grimaces on a large screen. In front of it, the same man, long haired with sideboards, moves down in fright, like he’s detaching himself. Just before, a police squad has arrived at a house…
©Tsubasa Yamaguchi/KODANSHA ©2024 “Blue Period” Film Partners FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JAPAN SOCIETY’S JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM ANNOUNCES TWO MAJOR PREMIERES BASED ON POPULAR MANGA: KENTARO HAGIWARA’S BLUE PERIOD INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE – JULY 13 KIYOTAKA OSHIYAMA’S LOOK BACK EAST COAST PREMIERE – JULY 14 These newly announced additions to North America’s largest Japanese…
©Courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JAPAN SOCIETY PRESENTS THE 17TH ANNUAL JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM July 10–21, 2024 · Japan Society · New York, NY North America’s largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji…
China-set family drama Stonewalling, which was co-directed by husband-and-wife team Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji, won best narrative feature at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Film Awards this year. The honor comes after the feature premiered at the Venice Film Festival and also won best film in the Hong Kong Film Festival’s Young Cinema Competition Stonewalling also…
A 4K restoration of Moving, the classic 1993 film by the late Shinji Somai, will be seen in select U.S. and Canadian theaters in 2024, thanks to Cinema Guild, which has just acquired North American distribution rights from MK2 Films. Earlier this year, Cinema Guild had released two other films by Somai: P.P. Rider (1983)…
Jeremy Thomas is a British film producer, founder and chairman of Recorded Picture Company. He produced Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor,” which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Picture. He also worked with directors like Wim Wenders, David Cronenberg, Nicolas Roeg, Terry Gilliam, Richard Linklater, Jeremy has worked with many distinguished directors from around the world….
Beginning May 5 Metrograph In Theater RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: A CELEBRATION Metrograph Honors the Late Composer and Pioneering Musician Featuring Apichatpong Weerasethakul in attendance for a special screening & first U.S. album-listening event for async surround, Sakamoto’s 2017 opus with visuals by long-time collaborator Shiro Takatani Metrograph presents Ryuichi Sakamoto: A Celebration, a series showcasing the…
The 2023 competition line-up includes new films from Wes Anderson, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Nanni Moretti and Aki Kaurismäki. In addition, Cannes has packed its out-of-competition screenings with blockbusters, including “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” and Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” as well as a new documentary from Oscar winner…
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