{"id":17261,"date":"2011-03-07T18:20:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17261"},"modified":"2011-03-07T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:20:32","slug":"justins-japan-nyc-hosts-march-anime-yakuza-film-fests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/07\/justins-japan-nyc-hosts-march-anime-yakuza-film-fests\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: NYC Hosts March Anime, Yakuza Film Fests"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>

'Welcome to the Spaceshow,' an animated entry for this year's New York International Children's Film Festival. (Aniplex)<\/p><\/div>\n

By<\/strong><\/em> JQ magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0\u00a0page <\/strong><\/em>here<\/a><\/strong><\/em> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anime sci-fi\u00a0and a Studio Ghibli<\/a>-inspired effort from China are the Eastern animation highlights at this year\u2019s New York International Children\u2019s Festival, running March 4 to 27 in Manhattan. The acclaimed festival received national attention two years ago when it hosted the premiere of The Secret of Kells<\/a><\/em>, a European fantasy film that was later nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.<\/p>\n

North America’s largest film festival for children and teens, NYICFF offers an eye-opening selection of the best new animated and live action film from around the world for ages 3 to 18, with gala premieres, filmmaker Q&As, filmmaking workshops, pre-screening giveaways, audience voting, and the NYICFF Awards Ceremony. Its jury this year includes Uma Thurman, Matthew Modine, Susan Sarandon, Gus Van Sant, James Schamus, Christine Vachon, Michel Ocelot, and John Turturro.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/em><\/strong><\/a> for the complete story.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

From March 9-19, New York\u2019s Japan Society<\/a> simmers nearly 50 years of yakuza (Japanese mafia) movies\u2014a mainstay of Japanese cinema\u2014in the Globus Film Series Hardest Men in Town: Yakuza Chronicles of Sin, Sex & Violence<\/a>, featuring 15 of the genre\u2019s sharpest selections.<\/p>\n

In addition to acclaimed classics by directors Hideo Gosha (The Wolves<\/em>) and Kinji Fukasaku (Cops vs. Thugs, Battles Without Honor and Humanity<\/em>), the series includes lesser known titles and overlooked treasures by Seijun Suzuki (Youth of the Beast<\/em>), Takashi Miike (Dead or Alive<\/em>), Rokuro Mochizuki (A Yakuza In Love<\/em>, Onibi: The Fire Within<\/em>), and Academy Award winner Sydney Pollack (The Yakuza<\/em>), as well as contemporary incarnations of the genre such as Takeshi Kitano\u2019s Outrage<\/em>. Among eight premieres, four will receive their first screening outside of Japan.<\/p>\n

The fest ignites Wednesday (March 9) with a special introduction and live Q&A by celebrated filmmaker Paul Schrader<\/a> for The Yakuza<\/em>, Sydney Pollack’s overlooked 1970s gem starring Robert Mitchum and Ken Takakura. The film was Schrader\u2019s debut as a screenwriter (in collaboration with his brother Leonard and Chinatown<\/em> scribe Robert Towne), and he would go on to pen the scripts for Martin Scorsese’s\u00a0Taxi Driver <\/em>and Raging Bull<\/em> and direct such diverse works as American Gigolo <\/em>and Mishima<\/em>, among others. Few films show more deference and respect to Japanese film culture than The Yakuza<\/em>, which has been lauded as the most original introduction to its eponymous genre.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/strong><\/em><\/a> for the complete story.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\n
\"\"<\/a><\/dt>\n
‘Outrage,’ a new crime drama by Takeshi Kitano, left, premieres as part of Japan Society’s Hardest Men in Town film festival, March 9-19. (‘Outrage’ Production Committee )<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0\u00a0 Anime sci-fi\u00a0and a Studio Ghibli-inspired effort from China are the Eastern animation highlights at this year\u2019s New York International Children\u2019s Festival, running March 4 to 27 in Manhattan. The acclaimed festival received national attention two years ago when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-film","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4up","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17267,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17261\/revisions\/17267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}