"North America's premiere showcase for Japanese film" (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS
is an inimitable platform for contemporary Japanese cinema, showing
the diversity and vitality of one of the most exciting world cinemas,
and ranging from refined, high-concept art house titles to popular and
grindhouse genre movies. In its sixth consecutive year, JAPAN CUTS 2012
includes close to 40 titles screening from July 12 to 28, with 12
co-presentations with the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, 11th
edition), with which it forms a winning summer fest combination that
shows 100 films annually. As its centerpiece, this year’s edition of
the festival will highlight the career of living Japanese film legend Koji Yakusho. Visit the festival website for more information and to purchase tickets!
JAPAN CUTS 2012 LINE-UP AND SCHEDULE:
Thursday,
July 12
6:30 - Asura
8:15 - Smuggler
Friday,
July 13
6:30 - Hard
Romanticker
8:40 - The
Atrocity Exhibition (Let's Make the Teacher… + Big Gun + Henge)
Saturday,
July 14
1:00 - Scabbard
Samurai
3:15 - Tokyo
Playboy Club
5:30 - Gyo
Sunday,
July 15
1:30 - Ace
Attorney
4:15 - Tormented
6:00 - Monsters
Club*
8:00 - Chips
Tuesday,
July 17
7:30 - Zombie
Ass
Wednesday,
July 18
7:30 - Girls
for Keeps
Thursday,
July 19
6:30 - Someday
8:30 - 9
Souls
Saturday, July 21
1:00 - Shall
We Dance?
3:30 - Toad's
Oil
6:00 - Chronicle
of My Mother
8:20 - 13
Assassins*
11:00 -
Cure
Sunday,
July 22
1:00 - Love
Strikes!
3:15 - No
Man's Zone*
5:20 - About
the Pink Sky
7:20 - Isn't
Anyone Alive?
9:30 - Roadside
Fugitive
Tuesday,
July 24
7:00 - Rebirth
Wednesday,
July 25
7:00 - Rent-a-Cat*
9:15 - Ushijima
the Loan Shark
Tuesday,
July 26
7:00 - Don't Stop! + DON'T STOP! JAPAN
CUTS Party*
Friday,
July 27
7:00 – Leonie*
Saturday,
July 28
1:00 - A
Gentle Rain Falls for Fukushima
3:00 - Women
on the Edge
5:00 - Lonely
Swallows
7:00 - The
Brat!
9:00 - Space
Battleship Yamato
*Director or
actor introduction and/or Q&A!
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