{"id":44812,"date":"2019-07-18T16:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T20:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=44812"},"modified":"2019-07-22T17:39:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:39:15","slug":"justins-japan-japan-cuts-at-japan-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/18\/justins-japan-japan-cuts-at-japan-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: JAPAN CUTS at Japan Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>JQ\u00a0<\/em>magazine<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>editor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(<\/em><\/strong>CIR<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) <\/em><\/strong>for<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Shukan NY Seikatsu<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong>Justin<\/em><\/strong> has<\/em><\/strong> written<\/em><\/strong> about<\/em><\/strong> Japanese<\/em><\/strong> arts<\/em><\/strong> and<\/em><\/strong> entertainment<\/em><\/strong> for<\/em><\/strong> JETAA<\/em><\/strong> since<\/em><\/strong> 2005. <\/em><\/strong>For<\/em><\/strong> more<\/em><\/strong> of<\/em><\/strong> his<\/em><\/strong> articles<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America, this year\u2019s JAPAN CUTS<\/a> at Japan Society<\/a> serves up 42 films from July 19-28, featuring more than 20 guest filmmakers and talent in person for daily post-screening Q&As.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis 13th edition of JAPAN CUTS provides testament to the continued vitality of contemporary Japanese cinema with a wide array of films by emerging filmmakers who dare to take formal and thematic risks,\u201d says Kazu Watanabe, Japan Society Deputy Director of Film.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are paired with a roster of veteran directors who similarly began their career in the spirit of creative innovation and who continue to expand their vision in new directions,\u201d he continues. \u201cTogether, they tackle stories about existential ennui, class conflict and social discrimination through a range of filmmaking practices that continually subvert expectations and expand our notion of what Japanese cinema is.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Opening Film on July 19 is the U.S. premiere of Can’t Stop the Dancing<\/i>, an office comedy-road trip-musical directed by Waterboys<\/em> helmer Shinobu Yaguchi, featuring a breakout performance by star Ayaka Miyoshi. The festival\u2019s Centerpiece Presentation on July 24 is the East Coast premiere of Killing<\/em>, a subversive samurai drama and meditation on the nature of violence by internationally renowned cult director Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: The Iron Man<\/em>), who will be presented with the 2019 CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film prior to the screening. Tsukamoto will also introduce a special 35mm presentation of his 1998 black-and-white classic Bullet Ballet<\/em> on July 25.<\/p>\n

The Closing Film on July 28 is the North American premiere of director Yuko Hakota\u2019s remarkable debut feature Blue Hour<\/em>, a comedic drama about rural homecoming and reinvention starring festival guests Kaho and Eun-kyung Shim.<\/p>\n

For more information and tickets, visit www.japansociety.org\/JAPANCUTS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for\u00a0Shukan NY Seikatsu. Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles,\u00a0click here. The largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America, this year\u2019s JAPAN CUTS at Japan Society serves up 42 films from July 19-28, featuring more than 20 guest filmmakers and […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[75,4,53,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-articlejournalism","category-events","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