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ND/NF ’26: Brand New Landscape

©Courtesy of Film at Lincoln Center  Hajime Takano aspired to become a prolific celebrity architect, like Frank Gehry. In the process, he became an absentee father, like Louis Kahn (the subject of his son’s painful documentary, My Architect). His daughter, Emi has entirely given up on her emotionally-distant father, but her brother Ren still yearns…

Japan Cuts : Kubi / It’s an Iron-Clad Guarantee the Audience Will Never be Bored

©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…