New York, NY –Japan Society and the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (Aca), in collaboration with the Visual Industry Promotion Organization (Vipo), announce the inaugural Aca Cinema Project online film series 21st Century Japan: Films from 2001-2020, streaming nationwide on Japan Society’s Virtual Cinema from February 5-25, 2021.
As Japan’s film industry enters its third decade in the new millennium, this 30-film online series takes a look back at the last 20 years of Japanese cinema to celebrate some of the most remarkable narrative fiction films and filmmakers that define the era. Covering a wide range of production styles and genres—from small budget independent debuts to festival favorites and award-winning major studio releases—this diverse slate of feature and short films offers a guided tour of modern Japanese cinema, including special spotlights dedicated to the work of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a selection of breakout films by up-and-coming filmmakers.
As Japan’s film industry enters its third decade in the new millennium, this 30-film online series takes a look back at the last 20 years of Japanese cinema to celebrate some of the most remarkable narrative fiction films and filmmakers that define the era. Covering a wide range of production styles and genres—from small budget independent debuts to festival favorites and award-winning major studio releases—this diverse slate of feature and short films offers a guided tour of modern Japanese cinema, including special spotlights dedicated to the work of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a selection of breakout films by up-and-coming filmmakers.
- 1/11/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Fires on the Plain (Nobi) by Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo) has adapted Shohei Ooka renowned anti-war novel, as Kon Ichikawa did in 1959. The new film screened in competition in Venice but arrives empty-handed in Toronto. It's fared better with the critics than with the juries, so we're gathering reviews—Jason Anderson, writing for Cinema Scope, finds that "the horrifying blunt force and almost relentless repugnancy of Tsukamoto’s effort prove to be the film’s greatest (if goriest) virtues"—and we have two clips. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2014
- Keyframe
Fires on the Plain (Nobi) by Shin'ya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo) has adapted Shohei Ooka renowned anti-war novel, as Kon Ichikawa did in 1959. The new film screened in competition in Venice but arrives empty-handed in Toronto. It's fared better with the critics than with the juries, so we're gathering reviews—Jason Anderson, writing for Cinema Scope, finds that "the horrifying blunt force and almost relentless repugnancy of Tsukamoto’s effort prove to be the film’s greatest (if goriest) virtues"—and we have two clips. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Eden
Dear Danny,
How I look forward to your Wavelengths reports! They always strike me not so much as write-ups on the festival’s experimental end but as reports from a parallel world where extraterrestrial colors, patterns, and movements are the ecstatic norm. And, as a cinephile who gravitates mostly toward more classical narratives, I find these journeys into pure form both daunting and liberating. Which leads me to your closing question—how indeed to make your way through so many titles and programs? I try to balance out my dyed-in-the-wool auteurist side with a more exploratory side, catching films from established directors along with ones from unfamiliar talents. An exhilarating gamble, if a risky one. We only have so much time, after all: Blink and a day is gone.
Or, in the case of Eden, blink and two whole decades have drifted by. Mia Hansen-Løve is a director keenly attuned to temporality,...
Dear Danny,
How I look forward to your Wavelengths reports! They always strike me not so much as write-ups on the festival’s experimental end but as reports from a parallel world where extraterrestrial colors, patterns, and movements are the ecstatic norm. And, as a cinephile who gravitates mostly toward more classical narratives, I find these journeys into pure form both daunting and liberating. Which leads me to your closing question—how indeed to make your way through so many titles and programs? I try to balance out my dyed-in-the-wool auteurist side with a more exploratory side, catching films from established directors along with ones from unfamiliar talents. An exhilarating gamble, if a risky one. We only have so much time, after all: Blink and a day is gone.
Or, in the case of Eden, blink and two whole decades have drifted by. Mia Hansen-Løve is a director keenly attuned to temporality,...
- 9/12/2014
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
★★★★☆A tubercular nightmare vision of war in all its bloody ferocity, Tetsuo (1989) director Shin'ya Tsukamoto's Fires on the Plain (2014) stormed into competition at Venice with a loud and frankly mad rush to seize its objective, regardless of the cost. Shot through with the same élan that saw steam punk body horror Tetsuo grind itself a cult niche, Tsukamoto adapts Shohei Ooka's novel Nobi - already filmed in 1959 by Kon Ichikawa - into a fever dream of defeat, cannibalism and madness. The war is going badly for Japan and Private Tamura (Tsukamoto himself) is with his ragged unit in the jungles of the Philippines, sick with TB and unable to be of much use to anyone as the Imperial Japanese Army prepare to retreat.
- 9/2/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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