{"id":26356,"date":"2012-07-22T14:06:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T18:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=26356"},"modified":"2012-07-22T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T18:11:33","slug":"justins-japan-week-three-of-japan-cuts-2012-blasts-off-with-space-battleship-yamato-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/22\/justins-japan-week-three-of-japan-cuts-2012-blasts-off-with-space-battleship-yamato-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin&#8217;s Japan: Week Three of JAPAN CUTS 2012 Blasts Off with \u2018Space Battleship Yamato\u2019 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Row0rYFQCHs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> JQ<em> magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em><strong> editor <a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?s=Justin+Tedaldi\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Tedaldi <\/a><\/strong><\/em><strong><\/strong><em><strong>(CIR\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feel-kobe.jp\/_en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his\u00a0Japanese culture page\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/user\/1861736\/articles\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Japan Society<\/a>\u2019s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/japan_cuts_2012\" rel=\"nofollow\">JAPAN CUTS<\/a> festival winds down this week with a sensational lineup of cinema and stars. The DON&#8217;T STOP! JAPAN CUTS Party<strong> <\/strong>follows the July 26 screening of <em>Don\u2019t Stop!, <\/em>featuring an introduction with director<strong> <\/strong>Kenji Kohashi.and <em>Leonie<\/em> director Hisako Matsui for the July 27 screening introduction and Q&amp;A.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>DON&#8217;T STOP!<\/em> documents the journey of &#8220;CAP,&#8221; a hard-as-nails 46-year-old man who realizes his lifelong dream, to go to America and ride a Harley down Route 66. CAP&#8217;s love affair with America and motorcycles began when he was young, but when he was 26, a traffic accident immobilized his left hand and lower body. Over the next 20 years, much of his life has been spent either in bed or in a wheelchair. In a 10-day, 4200 km trip across the U.S., encounters and miracles happen along the way to breathe fresh life into CAP and his friends.<\/p>\n<p>Other highlights include Toshiaki Toyoda\u2019s enigmatic terrorist art house gem<em> Monsters<\/em><em> Club<strong> <\/strong><\/em>(July 25); tthe world premiere of moral shocker <em>Ushijima the Loan Shark<strong> <\/strong><\/em>(July 25)<em>, <\/em>which features the impressive film debut of AKB48\u2019s Yuko Oshima (recipient of the festival\u2019s first-ever Cut Above Award for Outstanding Debut); Hisako Matsui\u2019s haunting docudrama <em>Leonie <\/em>(July 27); and climaxes with the North American premiere of one of the highest-grossing Japanese films of all time, <em>Space Battleship Yamato<\/em> (July 28).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For this week\u2019s list of films, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/week-three-of-japan-cuts-2012-blasts-off-with-space-battleship-yamato-premiere\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Examiner.com. Visit his\u00a0Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. Japan Society\u2019s annual JAPAN CUTS festival winds down this week with a sensational lineup of cinema and stars. The DON&#8217;T STOP! JAPAN CUTS Party follows the July 26 screening of Don\u2019t Stop!, featuring an introduction with director Kenji Kohashi.and [&hellip;]<\/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-26356","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-6R6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356","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=26356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26362,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26356\/revisions\/26362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}