New York Jewish Film Festival
Home Tags Yutaka Takenouchi

Tag: Yutaka Takenouchi

Japan Cuts: ‘Six Singing Women,’ An Ecological Cautionary Tale

Japan Cuts is now in its 17th edition and runs from July 10th until the 21st. The largest showcase of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America and annual highlight of New York’s cinema scene, keeps getting better. This year’s line-up includes Six Singing Women, which is the first feature film in over a decade from multi-hyphenate…

Japan Society’s Flash Forward Series: Talking the Pictures, Is A Wistful Limerick To The Japanese Silent Film Era

If in 2011, the Western World tributed the realm of Silent Film with the comedy-drama The Artist (that scooped five Academy Awards), in 2019 the Land of the Rising Sun made its homage to that same cinematic era, with Talking the Pictures, directed by Masayuki Suo. The motion picture is currently part of Japan Society’s…