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.
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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