Japan Society Film, New York, NY Videos
Videos by Japan Society Film in New York. Screening Japanese cinema from classics to contemporary premieres at Japan Society in NYC. Organizers of #JAPANCUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film.
Tomoko Tabata reflecting on her lead role in Shinji Somai's MOVING (1993) after seeing it for the first time in 20 years, from our restoration premiere at JAPAN CUTS last month.
Since last year—when we had the honor to present the first North American retrospective on Somai—we've worked hard to shed light on the enduring work of Somai, a long-neglected master of Japanese cinema. With the acclaim of our program, followed by the successful re-release of TYPHOON CLUB, it's the perfect time to rediscover Somai's undisputed masterpiece.
MOVING, which has never been theatrically released in the U.S., is opening at Film at Lincoln Center today thanks to the efforts of Cinema Guild, so we urge you to go out and see it in theaters! filmlinc.org/moving
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Tomoko Tabata reflecting on her lead role in Shinji Somai's MOVING (1993) after seeing it for the first time in 20 years, from our restoration premiere at JAPAN CUTS last month. Since last year—when we had the honor to present the first North American retrospective on Somai—we've worked hard to shed light on the enduring work of Somai, a long-neglected master of Japanese cinema. With the acclaim of our program, followed by the successful re-release of TYPHOON CLUB, it's the perfect time to rediscover Somai's undisputed masterpiece. MOVING, which has never been theatrically released in the U.S., is opening at Film at Lincoln Center today thanks to the efforts of Cinema Guild, so we urge you to go out and see it in theaters! filmlinc.org/moving
Hiroshi Shimizu | MoMI x Japan Society - Series Trailer
We’re excited to unveil the new series trailer for our groundbreaking two-part retrospective “Hiroshi Shimizu”—the 27-film series opens IN ONE WEEK on Saturday, May 4 with "Part I: The Shochiku Years" at Museum of the Moving Image, then continues at Japan Society on May 16 with "Part II: The Postwar and Independent Years."
Co-organized with National Film Archive of Japan and Japan Foundation, New York, “Hiroshi Shimizu” marks the largest-ever North American survey of Shimizu and features rare, imported archival 35mm prints; live piano accompaniment and newly commissioned subtitles.
"Part II: The Postwar and Independent Years"
May 16–June 1 at Japan Society
🎟️ Tickets at japansoc.org/Shimizu
Tomoyo Harada - Toki o Kakeru Shōjo Music Video
Wishing a happy birthday to Tomoyo Harada, star of Nobuhiko Obayashi's THE LITTLE GIRL WHO CONQUERED TIME, seen here in the music video for the hit title song.
A reminder from Mariko Okada that proper dinner etiquette requires you to “never make any noise!” Wishing all a happy holiday!
The latest from director Daisuke Miyazaki (TOURISM, JC 2018), PLASTIC is a life-affirming jolt to the system, celebrating the cosmic power of music, and the joys of growing up and falling in love in a charming and heartfelt coming of age tale. Screening tomorrow with director Miyazaki in-person! japansoc.org/PLASTIC
That's a wrap on our Globus Film Series RITES OF PASSAGE: THE FILMS OF SHINJI SOMAI! Thanks to all who joined us throughout these past few weeks to explore the work of one of Japan's most influential filmmakers!
RITES OF PASSAGE: THE FILMS OF SHINJI SOMAI—the first North American retrospective on the work of 80s auteur Shinji Somai—ends tonight with a pristine 35mm import of TOKYO HEAVEN plus screenings of LUMINOUS WOMAN and P.P. RIDER: http://japansoc.org/somai
1990 Promo for Shinji Somai's charming ghost story TOKYO HEAVEN. Capturing Tokyo at the tail-end of Japan’s Bubble era, Somai’s lighthearted reflection on the transience of life screens on May 13th in a rare imported 35mm print with live English subtitles: japansoc.org/tokyoheaven
Kamen Rider
The first KAMEN RIDER episode, "The Eerie Man Spider," aired on this day in 1971. Created by mangaka Shotaro Ishinomori, the popular tokusatsu program starred Hiroshi Fujioka as Kamen Rider 1.
We're one week away from the launch of THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS FROM JAPAN CUTS AND BEYOND, an essential focus on women artists in Japanese film, featuring premieres of the latest films from Japan! We kick it off next Friday with the North American premiere of Akiko Ohku's heist-like marital comedy, WEDDING HIGH. Ohku will be in-person to join us in an Audience Q&A and Opening night party following the screening! 🎟️: japansoc.org/FemaleGaze
Highlighting the early works of Naomi Kawase, Miwa Nishikawa, Shuichi Okita, Junji Sakamoto, Akihiko Shiota + Masayuki Suo, #FlashForward illuminates the importance of these pivotal beginnings within each artist’s career. Virtual All-Access Passes available through this Thurs, Dec. 2 ONLY: bit.ly/JSFlshFwd
Wife of a Spy - Official U.S. Trailer
As we head into the final weekend of this year's #JAPANCUTS, don't miss out on our New York Premiere of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's award-winning WIFE OF A SPY tonight at 7PM in our auditorium!
Co-scripted by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Tadashi Nohara (HAPPY HOUR) and anchored by a brave performance by Yu Aoi, this year's recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film, Kurosawa’s first historical drama eerily evokes horrors of the past in the visual register of our own terrifying times.
Limited in-person ticket availability: bit.ly/JC-WoS
🚨 All-Access Passes now on sale for #JAPANCUTS 2021! Catch the entire online slate of 21 features and 12 shorts—including studio favorites, independent productions, documentaries, restored classics, animation and avant-garde works—for just $69! bit.ly/JCPass21
Hanagatami
"Both a showcase of and elegy for the youth stolen by war, HANAGATAMI is epic in length and scope but intimate in focus. It’s a film that mixes a sense of childlike innocence with the deep foreboding of Japan’s nationalist war as it creeps over the horizon."—Little White Lies
Now streaming alongside CASTING BLOSSOMS TO THE SKY and SEVEN WEEKS through Friday at film.japansociety.org
"I thought that if I could put my own family under the camera—all our emotions, our privacy—I wondered if I might break taboos about the family.”—Kazuo Hara Hara's most personal film, EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974, is now streaming exclusively at film.japansociety.org