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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…

‘Minamata’ Director Andrew Levitas Says MGM is Burying the Movie Because of Johnny Depp

It’s been a year and a half since Minamata premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the film has yet to be released, and its director believes it’s not only because of the pandemic. According to Deadline, filmmaker Andrew Levitas sent a letter to MGM in which he alleges that the studio sought to…