JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film is an annual festival of modern

Japanese cinema The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...

held at New York City's Japan Society. The festival was first held in 2007, growing out of the

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Society's popular bi-annual series, ''New Films from Japan''. But where ''New Films from Japan'' was a series that showed, on average, ten films over the course of several months, the ''JAPAN CUTS'' festival has scheduled an average of 25-30 films, many of them premieres, over two weeks during the month of July. Screenings are held in Japan Society's 260-seat Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium.

History

The year 2007 marked not only the launch of ''JAPAN CUTS'', but also the first time Japan Society's film department teamed with the

New York Asian Film Festival The New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is a critically acclaimed film festival held in New York City, dedicated to the display of Asian Film Culture. The New York Asian Film Festival generally features contemporary premieres and classic titles ...

(NYAFF). The first festival screened 15 films from July 5–15, 2007, with six co-presentation screenings with NYAFF. The 2007 ''JAPAN CUTS'' also featured a special night showcasing Japanese video art courtesy of Frankfurt, Germany's

Nippon Connection Nippon Connection is a festival for Japanese film which takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, every year in early summer. The festival is organized by the nonprofit organization “Nippon Connection e.V.”. Nippon Connection has become the b ...

, as well as a special night of short films and networking lounge for New York and Japan-based filmmakers. Directors

Shusuke Kaneko is a Japanese filmmaker. Life and career Shūsuke Kaneko was born in Tokyo on June 8, 1955. According to the biography on his official website Kaneko was interested in science fiction, particularly Godzilla and Gamera films, from a young age. ...

Miwa Nishikawa is a Japanese director and screenwriter. Nishikawa received a degree in literature from the University of Waseda, and after working on several independent films as well as catching the eye of Hirokazu Kore-eda, her film making career took off ...

Naoko Ogigami is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. She first began gaining attention after winning several prizes at the PIA Film Festival for her short film ''Hoshino-Kun, Yumeno-Kun'' (2001). Among her most notable works are her f ...

, and

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appeared at the festival for a discussion about their films. The following year, ''JAPAN CUTS'' screened 18 films, nine of them co-presentations with NYAFF. The festival also continued its partnership with Nippon Connection and presented over sixty screenings of short films and video art by independent Japanese filmmakers. Filmmakers

Naomi Kawase is a Japanese film director. She was also known as , with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including ''Embracing'', about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and ''Katatsumori'', about ...

Kōji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...

, Masayuki Kakegawa, and Takako Matsumoto appeared as special guests at the festival for audience Q&A sessions. This was also the first year after-screening parties, something that is now a common occurrence at Japan Society film screenings, were held. The 2009 festival saw the slate of film screenings increase by ten films, with twelve screenings being co-presentation's with NYAFF. However, ''JAPAN CUTS'' jettisoned screenings of short films and art videos presented in conjunction with Nippon Connection. Special guests included Sion Sono,

Eiji Okuda is a Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in '' Sen no Rikyu''. He won the award for best actor at the 37th Blue Ribbon Awar ...

, Momoko Mieda, Gen Takahashi, and

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri is a Japanese film director. Career Kumakiri debuted with ''Kichiku'' in 1997. His 2001 film, ''Hole in the Sky'', starred Susumu Terajima and Yuriko Kikuchi. His 2004 film, ''Green Mind, Metal Bats'', screened at the International Film Fest ...

. In 2010, ''JAPAN CUTS'' scaled back the number of films screened, but increased the number of screenings. Over twenty films screened in thirty screenings, 8 films were co-presented with New York Asian Film Festival. Coming at the end of the decade, the 2010 incarnation of ''JAPAN CUTS'' included a small, sub-series of films that had gone unreleased in the United States until their screenings at Japan Society. Special guests included

Toshiaki Toyoda is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Osaka Prefecture, Toyoda was first a prodigy in the game of shogi or Japanese chess. He attended the Japan Shogi Association's Professional shogi player#Apprenticeship, apprenticeship ...

Yoshihiro Nishimura is a Japanese film director, special effects and makeup effects artist, and a screenwriter who has worked predominantly in the horror genre. Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" ...

Noboru Iguchi (born June 28, 1969) is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has worked as a director in adult video (AV) as well as in the horror and gore genres. Life and career Iguchi was born on June 28, 1969. In an interview he said he was ...

Isao Yukisada is a Japanese film director from Kumamoto. He served as assistant director on Shunji Iwai's ''Love Letter'', ''April Story'', and ''Swallowtail Butterfly''. Filmography Director * ''Open House'' (1998) * (Sunflower) (2000) * ''A Closing Day'' ...

Tatsuya Fujiwara is a Japanese actor. Internationally, he is best known for his leading roles as Shuya Nanahara in the '' Battle Royale'' films, Light Yagami in the ''Death Note'' films, Kaiji Itō in the '' Kaiji'' films, and Rikuhiko Yuki in Hideo Nakata's ''Th ...

Tomorowo Taguchi is a Japanese actor, film director and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he ma ...

, Daichi Watanabe, and Hitoshi Yazaki. The 2011, ''JAPAN CUTS'' adopted a new name, ''JAPAN CUTS: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema''. Thirty-two films screened over the course of thirty-three screenings, ten of which were co-presented with NYAFF. The series began on July 7 and finished on July 22. Screenings included the New York premiere of ''Haru's Journey'', starring

Tatsuya Nakadai is a Japanese film actor. He was featured in 11 films directed by Masaki Kobayashi, including ''The Human Condition'' trilogy, wherein he starred as the lead character Kaji, plus ''Harakiri'', ''Samurai Rebellion'' and ''Kwaidan''. Nakadai wor ...

, the world premiere of

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's ''

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'', and a special screening of

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's ''Battle Royale''. Eight special guests attended the festival, including directors

Masashi Yamamoto (born 24 January 1956) is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Ōita Prefecture, Yamamoto attended Meiji University but left early to concentrate on making independent 8mm films. His '' Carnival in the Night'' screened at the 1983 Berlin F ...

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and

Yoshimasa Ishibashi is a video, experimental film and performance artist based in Kyoto, Japan and the leader of the Kyupi Kyupi artist collective, founded in 1996. He has directed work for both art museums, including Kyupi Kyupi performances at the Palais de Toky ...

and actress

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. In 2012, the festival increased in scope and scale, screening 39 films. 12 films were co-presented with NYAFF. The series began on July 12 and concluded on July 28. The opening film was the U.S. premiere of Hitoshi One's ''Love Strikes!'', centerpiece presentation the New York premiere of Shuichi Okita's ''

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'', and closing film the North American premiere of

Takashi Yamazaki is a Japanese visual effects artist, television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He won the Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year, Director of the Year and Japan Academy Film Prize for Screenplay of the Year, Screenplay o ...

’s ''Space Battleship Yamato''. 8 special guests attended, including Toshi Fujiwara,

Yu Irie is a Japanese film director / screenwriter who was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and grew up in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture. After a number of short films, including ''Obsession'' and ''Seven Drives'' which were screened at the Yubari I ...

, Kenji Kohashi, Hisako Matsui,

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, Naoko Ogigami,

Koji Yakusho , known professionally as , is a Japanese actor. He is well known for his starring roles in ''Shall We Dance?'' (1996), ''Cure'' (1997), ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' (2005), ''13 Assassins'' (2010), '' The Third Murder'' (2017), ''The Blood of Wolve ...

(recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film). The 2013 edition scaled back to 24 films, with independent productions and big budget epics. ''JAPAN CUTS'' again dovetailed with NYAFF, co-presenting 12 titles. The series began on July 11 and concluded July 21. The festival’s opening film was the U.S. premiere of Toshiaki Toyoda’s ''I’M FLASH!'', with the closing film the U.S. Premiere of

Shinji Higuchi is a Japanese filmmaker and storyboard artist. He is one of the most successful Japanese filmmakers and the top ''tokusatsu'' film director. Higuchi became known for his work on '' Gamera: Guardian of the Universe'', for which he won the Specia ...

and

Isshin Inudo is a Japanese film director. Career Inudo began making films on his own in high school, with one of his works being selected for the 1979 Pia Film Festival. After attending Tokyo Zokei University, he found work at Asahi Promotions where he bega ...

’s ''

The Floating Castle is a 2012 Japanese historical-drama film directed by Shinji Higuchi and Isshin Inudo, starring Mansai Nomura, and adapts Ryō Wada's novel (2007) of the same name. Set in feudal Japan, the film is based on the Siege of Oshi and depicts the stru ...

''. 5 special guests attended, including Junichi Inoue, Justin Leach, Regge Life, Yukihiro Toda, and Toyoda. ''JAPAN CUTS'' 2014 increased the number of films in the lineup to 28, further diversifying genre and including more transnational productions, such as

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’s Japanese-American '' Man from Reno'' and the Mo Brothers’ Indonesian-Japanese '' Killers''. 13 films were co-presented with NYAFF. The series began on July 10 and concluded July 20. The festival's opening film was the U.S. premiere of Takashi Miike's '' The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji'', the centerpiece presentation the world premiere of Momoko Ando's '' 0.5mm'', and the closing film the North American premiere of Tetsuichiro Tsuta's ''The Tale of Iya''. 8 special guests attended, including Ando, Boyle,

Kazuki Kitamura is a Japanese film and television actor who won the award for best supporting actor at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival for '' Minazuki'', ''Kyohansha'' and ''Kanzen-naru shiiku'' as well as the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film at JAPAN CUTS ...

(recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Excellence in Film), Shiro Maeda,

Fumi Nikaido is a Japanese actress and fashion model. Career Starting as a model in Naha, Okinawa, Nikaidō made her film debut in 2009 in ''Toad's Oil'', directed by Kōji Yakusho. She and Shota Sometani received the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best You ...

, Ken Ochiai, Tsuta, and Chihiro Yamamoto. The 2015 edition of ''JAPAN CUTS'' broadened its programming to encompass narrative features, documentaries, avant-garde, and restored and rediscovered works, establishing the Feature Slate, Documentary Focus, Experimental Spotlight, and Classics sections. The festival presented 28 features and dozens of shorts, beginning July 9 and concluding July 19. The festival's opening film was the North American premiere of Yu Irie's ''

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'', the centerpiece presentation the North American premieres of Shingo Wakagi's ''

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'' and Masaharu Take's '' 100 Yen Love'', and closing film the international premiere of Juichiro Yamasaki's ''Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn''. 17 special guests attended, including

Sakura Ando is a Japanese actress. Career Ando won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival 2010 for ''Love Exposure'', ''The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio'' and ''Tsumitoka batsutoka''. She was also nominated for the aw ...

(recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film),

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Career Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film ''W's Traged ...

, Bishop Blay, Donari Braxton, Steve Cossman,

Takeshi Fukunaga Takeshi Fukunaga is a Japanese filmmaker based in New York. His first feature film, '' Out of My Hand'' (2015) premiered in the Panorama section at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and won the US Fiction Award at the 2015 Los Angeles ...

, Irie,

Youki Kudoh is a Japanese actress and singer. She won the award for best newcomer at the 6th Yokohama Film Festival for '' The Crazy Family''. She also won the awards for best actress at the 16th Hochi Film Award and at the 1992 Blue Ribbon Award for ''Wa ...

, Hirotaka Kuwahara, Akiko Maruyama, Hisako Matsui, Tomonari Nishikawa, Joel Schlemowitz,

Yuki Tanada is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Kitakyushu, Tanada pursued theater in high school before entering the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image to study filmmaking. Her newest work, My Broken Mariko, released on September 3 ...

, Masashi Yamamoto, Yamasaki, and Ted Wiggin. In 2016, ''JAPAN CUTS'' celebrated its tenth anniversary with its most diverse and expansive program to date across the Feature Slate, Documentary Focus, Experimental Spotlight, and Classics sections, in addition to a Microcinema installed at Japan Society featuring short films by up and coming directors. The festival presented 29 features and 41 shorts, beginning July 14 and concluding July 24. The festival's opening film was the North American Premiere of Shuichi Okita's ''Mohican Comes Home'', the centerpiece presentation was the North American premiere of Yoshifumi Tsubota's ''The Shell Collector'', and closing film the North American Premiere of Satoko Yokohama's ''The Actor''. Over 20 special guests attended (the most in the festival's history), including

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(recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film), Takashi Itani,

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, Mizuki Misumi,

Tatsuya Mori is a Japanese documentary filmmaker, TV director and author. Career Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, Mori graduated from Rikkyo University, where he appeared in the student films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After graduating, he tried acting and even app ...

, Mipo O, Okita, Hitoshi One, Onohana, Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr.,

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, pianist, singer, record producer and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto inf ...

, Tsubota, Adam Torel, Eiji Uchida, Kensaku Watanabe, and Yokohama.

Masao Adachi Masao Adachi (足立正生 ''Adachi Masao'', born May 13, 1939) is a Japanese screenwriter, director, actor and former Japanese Red Army member who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture. Career Best known for ...

, Emi Meyer,

provided video introductions, and Keiko Araki,

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, and Alexander Zahlten participated in a special industry panel. Highlighting “the strength and diversity of the festival's programming”

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presented a selection of previous ''JAPAN CUTS'' favorites online. ''JAPAN CUTS''’ 2017 edition presented a dynamic program of titles across the Feature Slate, Documentary Focus, Experimental Spotlight, and Classics sections, in addition to a newly established Shorts Showcase with narrative works. This eleventh edition of the festival presented 28 features and 6 short films, beginning July 13 and concluding July 23. The festival's opening film was the U.S. Premiere of '' MUMON: The Land of Stealth'', the centerpiece presentation the East Coast Premiere of ''Over the Fence'', and closing film the East Coast Premiere of ''

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''. Special guests included Konrad Aderer (''Resistance at Tule Lake''), Sora Hokimoto (''Haruneko''), Hanae Kan (''Yamato (California)'', ''West North West''), Taro Maki (''In This Corner of the World''), Shingo Matsumura (''Love and Goodbye and Hawaii''), Kyoko Miyake (''Tokyo Idols''), Daisuke Miyazaki (''Yamato (California)''),

Yoshihiro Nakamura is a Japanese film director and screenwriter, known for his 2009 film '' Fish Story'', which premiered at the New York Asian Film Festival, and ''A Boy and His Samurai'', which won the Audience Award at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival. Li ...

(''MUMON: The Land of Stealth''),

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(''Over the Fence'', ''FOUJITA'', recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film), Sahel Rosa (''West North West''), and Megumi Sasaki (''A Whale of a Tale''). The 2018 edition of ''JAPAN CUTS'' includes titles across the Feature Slate, Documentary Focus, Experimental Spotlight, and Classics sections, in addition to a variety of pre-feature short films. The twelfth edition of the festival presents 28 features and 9 short films, beginning July 19 and concluding July 29. The festival's opening film is the North American Premiere of ''Ramen Shop'', the centerpiece presentation the North American Premiere of ''Mori, The Artist’s Habitat'', and closing film the U.S. Premiere of ''Hanagatami''. Special guests include Akio Fujimoto (''Passage of Life''),

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(''Sennan Asbestos Disaster''), Moët Hayami (''KUSHINA, what will you be''), Tomona Hirota (''KUSHINA, what will you be'', ''YEAH''),

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(''Ramen Shop''),

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(''Mori, The Artist's Habitat'', ''Still Walking'', recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film), Kazuyuki Kitaki (''Dream of Illumination''), Sachiko Kobayashi (''Sennan Asbestos Disaster''), Shunsuke Kubozuka (''Hanagatami''), Kaori Oda (''Toward a Common Tenderness''),

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(''blank 13'', ''Ramen Shop''),

Shinsuke Sato is a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter and video game designer. He has directed several live-action film adaptations of manga and anime, including ''The Princess Blade'' (2001), ''Gantz'' (2011), ''I Am a Hero'' (2015), ''Bleach'' (2018), ''Inuya ...

(''

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''), Thunder Sawada (''Dream of Illumination''), Yohei Suzuki (''YEAH''), Yuya Takagawa (''Dream of Illumination''), Hikaru Toda (''Of Love & Law''), Yoko Yamanaka (''Amiko''), Elisa Yanagi (''YEAH''), Keisuke Yoshida (''Thicker Than Water''), and Nao Yoshigai (''Across the Water'', ''Breathing House'', ''Stories floating on the wind'').

Staff

''JAPAN CUTS'' was founded in 2007 by Japan Society's Artistic Director Yoko Shioya with Film Program Officer Ryo Nagasawa, and programmed by Nagasawa through 2009. From 2010 to 2013, it was programmed by Samuel Jamier, Senior Film Program Officer, organized with Fumiko Miyamoto, Program Officer, Policy Projects & Film Program. From 2013, Aiko Masubuchi serves as Senior Film Programmer, with Kazu Watanabe as Film Programmer, and Joel Neville Anderson as JAPAN CUTS Programmer.

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