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JAPAN CUTS 2007: Festival of New Japanese Film
Thursday, May 29, 2008With over 400 Japanese films released in Japan last year, box-office revenue for domestic films exceeded that of foreign films for the first time in 21 years. With such an exciting demand for new films and directors, JAPAN CUTS brings a sizable slice of Japan’s dynamic contemporary film culture to New York City.
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NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Presented for the first time in the U.S. with new digital subtitles, the series explores the golden age of the Nikkatsu studio (Japan's oldest film studio), with eight stylized action films. Influenced by Hollywood and the Nouvelle Vague, these films reflect the Westernization that swept away old values, while teaching an entire generation a new Japanese meaning of cool.
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SOLD OUT SPECIAL SCREENING Wings of Defeat
Tuesday, March 18, 8 PMThrough rare interviews with surviving kamikaze, Wings of Defeat questions the responsibilities a government at war has to its soldiers and to its people.
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Globus Film Series - Dawn of Japanese Animation
Wednesday, February 13 — Saturday, February 16Screened for the first time in the U.S. with English subtitles, these short animations will be presented each night in four differing themes, matched with a silent live-action film of the same genre and era.