Japanese cinema Archives

Japan Society and Metrograph in New York City will co-present Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a 30-film retrospective devoted to Mikio Naruse, the "fourth great" master of Japanese cinema, from May 9th through June 29th Co-organized with The Japan Foundation, New York, the two-part series will offer the first major New York survey of[...]

This is good news for fans of Japanese cinema and Kitano's films, whose distribution in the West has been spotty at best in the last few years His previous movie, Kubi, is a subversive samurai saga that exposes the homoerotic tensions between swordsmen, but it is still without a US distributor. Broken Rage follows a hitman,[...]

Plastic, Daisuke Miyazaki's musical fantasy about the love of rock music and time travel, opens at the Metrograph in NYC on October 4th.

Beijing Watermelon is late director Nobuhiko Obayashi's Capra-esque comedy drama about a Japanese-Chinese Friendship from a kinder time