Check out more of our Youtube Channel ©Courtesy of Netflix 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…
@Courtesy of Netflix Thanks to the reforms of the Meiji Restoration, being a ronin (a masterless samurai, like Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo) no longer looked so bad to old school warriors following the Bushido code. Even ronin had a level of status the new government denied the samurai, now called Shizoku. They lost their honor…
@Courtesy of Netflix 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…
©Courtesy of Netflix The era of swords has come to an end, but the battle for survival is just beginning. In “Last Samurai Standing,” 292 fallen samurai — facing poverty, a pandemic, and a new regime that has rendered them relics — are lured into a violent game called Kodoku, in which the last competitor…
©DIMENSIONS NYAFF 2025 Filmmaker in Focus : Toshiaki Toyoda immerses viewers in an aesthetically transfixing vision of inner and outer worlds, set against a backdrop of collapsing realities and cosmic uncertainty. DIRECTOR : Toshiaki Toyoda YEAR : 2025 COUNTRY : Japan RUNTIME : 97 minutes LANGUAGE : Japanese with English subtitles ORIGINAL TITLE : 次元を超える…
ACA Cinema Project — which organised the recent “Flash Forward” film series at Japan Society — returns with the theatrical release of Blue, directed by Keisuke Yoshida showing at New York’s IFC Center. The filmmaker who was named ‘The Master of Psychological Drama’ and was honoured with a special Director in Focus programme at 2021’s Tokyo…
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:…
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. Synopsis : The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku…
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