Japan Cuts The New York Festival Of Contemporary Japanese Cinema July 11, 2012

"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 website (http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/film/japan_cuts_2012) for information and to purchase tickets!

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
7:15 - Love Strikes! + Striking Love! JAPAN CUTS Opening Party!*

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

Friday, July 20
7:00 - The Woodsman and the Rain, Centerpiece Gala Presentation*

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!