{"id":20351,"date":"2011-07-05T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=20351"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:56:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:56:32","slug":"justins-japan-japan-society%e2%80%99s-first-week-of-japan-cuts-2011-offers-%e2%80%98buddha%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98battle-royale%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/05\/justins-japan-japan-society%e2%80%99s-first-week-of-japan-cuts-2011-offers-%e2%80%98buddha%e2%80%99-%e2%80%98battle-royale%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Japan Society\u2019s First Week of JAPAN CUTS 2011 Offers \u2018Buddha,\u2019 \u2018Battle Royale\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japan Society of New York's JAPAN CUTS 2011 film festival kicks off with 'Osamu Tezuka\u2019s Buddha: The Great Departure' July 7. (\u00a9 2011 Osamu Tezuka\u2019s Buddha Production Committee)<\/p><\/div>\n

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By<\/em> <\/strong>JQ<\/strong> magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> editor <\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/em> (CIR Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page <\/em>here<\/a> <\/em>for related stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seeking summer movie asylum from Autobots and aging boy wizards? Head to Japan Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth consecutive year, the JAPAN CUTS 2011<\/a> <\/em>film festival includes 32 new titles\u2014the biggest lineup in the festival\u2019s history with (almost) nothing but premieres and one-off shows\u2014running from July 7 to 22, including ten co-presentations with the New York Asian Film Festival<\/a> (NYAFF).<\/p>\n

\u201cArguably North America\u2019s premier showcase for Japanese film\u201d (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS screens the cutting edge of contemporary Japanese fare, caroming between elegant drama to anything-goes comedy to uncanny experimentalism.<\/p>\n

All films\u2014most of them New York premieres–are primarily shown in Japanese with English subtitles, some with actor\/director intros and Q&As and after parties.<\/p>\n

For the complete list of this week\u2019s cuts, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page here for related stories. Seeking summer movie asylum from Autobots and aging boy wizards? Head to Japan Society. Now in its fifth consecutive year, the JAPAN CUTS 2011 film festival includes 32 new titles\u2014the biggest lineup in the festival\u2019s history with (almost) nothing […]<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-film","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t