“Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan” opens this evening @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social (@japansociety.org) www.criterion.com/current/post...

Preparation underway at @japansociety.org for tonight’s Ozu screening with live accompaniment! 📽️🎞️🎹 @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social “That Night’s Wife” (その夜の妻), showtime at 6pm, for more info & tickets: japansociety.org/events/that-... #yasijiroozu #小津安二郎 #shigehikohasumi #蓮實重彦 #silentfilm #livemusic

Ryusuke Hamaguchi introduces the @japansociety.org series “Shiguéhiko Hasumi: Another History of the Movie in America and Japan” (October 9 through 18) @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social — www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVo2...

Japan Cuts wrapped over the weekend, here's all my coverage in one thread, starting with a review of Miike Takashi's Blazing Fists (aka Blue Fight) www.thechinesecinema.com/blue-fight-a...

Setsuko Hara (#botd) at her home in Komae, Tokyo on February 25, 1960.

Toshiro Mifune with his wife Sachiko and sons Shiro and Takeshi.

Tatsuya Nakadai in Tokyo, circa 1964.

Lineup for one of the best film festivals in the country just dropped

Hell yeah, they're showing LOVE LETTER by Shunji Iwai

My heart beat faster because of the sudden switch in her [Kaede’s] personality… I knew right away that I had to get that role.”—Mieko Harada The only actress that Kurosawa offered the role to, Harada would declare, “frankly, I think she’s really super.” RAN screens 6/20 in 35mm: japansoc.org/Ran

Just announced! CHAO, the highly anticipated feature debut from veteran animator Yasuhiro Aoki, will open #JAPANCUTS Powered by GU on July 10. 🎟️ Tickets on sale now: japansoc.org/3FFqzs4 Presented in collaboration with @gkids.com.

Nobuhiko Obayashi and Tomoyo Harada on the set of THE LITTLE GIRL WHO CONQUERED TIME (1983).

School In The Crosshairs is the popular pick (aliens, teens, heavier Hausu-style FX), but don’t miss Obayashi’s nostalgic hometown farewell masquerading as gender-swap teen comedy I Are You You Am Me in @jsfilmnyc.bsky.social ‘s upcoming 80s Obayashi series www.screenslate.com/articles/i-a...

The Japan Society has done it again. A six film Obayashi in the 80s series coming in February. japansociety.org/film/obayash...?