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Kokuho : Q&A with Actor Ryo Yoshizawa and Director Lee Sang-il

©Courtesy of GKIDS Kokuho : Nagasaki, 1964 — After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men…

NYAFF / Ravens : Exclusive Interview with Writer/Director Mark Gill & Actor Tadanobu Asano

Ravens : The tragic love story of legendary Japanese Photographer Masahisa Fukase and his wife Yoko. Director : Mark Gill Producer : Mark Gill, Cyril Cadars, Megumi Fukasawa, Hiroyasu Nagata Screenwriter : Mark Gill Production Co : Vestapol, Ark Entertainment, Minded Factory, Katsize, The Y House Films Genre : Drama Original Language : Japanese Runtime : 1h 56m ©Photo by Ayami Kusumi  …

New York Asian Film Festival / Ravens : Q&A with Mark Gill & Tadanobu Asano

Check Out More of Our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at…

‘Ravens’ Is An Imaginative Biopic Delivered With Magic Realism / NYAFF

British, film director Mark Gill — after an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination for his 2014 short The Voorman Problem and after his feature debut with England Is Mine — returns to the silver screen with an exquisite piece. Ravens instills magic realism in a biopic about Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase. Gill’s second feature premiered…

A Balance, Battles Between Familial Love And Virtue

Winner of the New Current Award at the Busan International Film Festival, the Jury Award of the 2020 Pingyao International Film Festival edition and an official selection at Berlinale, Yujiro Harumoto’s second feature film, A Balance, is currently part of the the third ACA Cinema Project series. The New Films from Japan programme, is organised…

Opening at IFC Center: Keisuke Yoshida’s Blue and Yujiro Harumoto’s A Balance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  ACA Cinema Project: New Films from Japan presents  “BLUE” A film by Keisuke Yoshida  “A BALANCE” A film by Yujiro Harumoto  IFC Center March 11-17, 2022  March 11-17, 2022    New York, NY (February 17, 2022) – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (ACA) announce the third ACA Cinema Project series:…