"The First Slam Dunk" to open the New York Japanese Cups; Ryuichi Sakamoto remembers, Yuya Yagira will receive an award
EXCLUSIVE: The hit animated feature The First Slam Dunk will open Japan Cuts, a Japanese film festival in New York, which will also feature a special tribute to the late Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The festival will also award the Cut Above for Outstanding Achievement award to actor Yuya Yagira for his role in Kentaro's Under The Turquoise Sky, which will be screened as the centerpiece of the film. Yagira was the youngest winner of the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Nobody Knows in 2004. Yagira and Kentaro will both attend the festival.
The First Slam Dunk, which will premiere on the East Coast at Japan Cuts, is the highest-grossing film at the Japanese box office so far this year and was recently acquired by Gkids for North American distribution.
Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto involves screening of Elizabeth Leonard's 1985 documentary Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto. The rarely shown cult film will screen with famed musician Akiko Yano and Leonard both in attendance.
Organized by the Japan Society, Japan Cuts runs from July 26 to August 6 in-person event after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
In total, the festival will screen 29 films, including five international premieres, ten North American premieres, seven American premieres, three East Coast premieres and three New York premieres. All screenings will take place at the Japan Society Center on East 47th Street with Japanese and English subtitles.
The festival also offers a competition section, Next Generation, which will present six feature films by emerging filmmakers, including recent Osaka Asian Film Festival winners Sanka: Mountain Nomads and When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty. The jury is made up of critic and essayist Moeko Fujii; Dan Sullivan, film programmer at Lincoln Center; and distributor Pearl Chan (Good Move Media, Kani Releasing).
Other sections include Feature Slate, screening of 14 recent Japanese narrative feature films and a program of shorts footage. The Three Sisters Of Tenmasou Inn by Ryuhei Kitamura will be screened as the closing film.
"Japan Cuts is one of the most popular Japan Society events and one of the favorites of the New York film scene," said Peter Tatara, director of the Japan Society. "After a hiatus during the pandemic, we couldn't be prouder that Japan Cuts is back with two weeks of thrilling, thought-provoking and heartbreaking films."
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EXCLUSIVE: The hit animated feature The First Slam Dunk will open Japan Cuts, a Japanese film festival in New York, which will also feature a special tribute to the late Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
The festival will also award the Cut Above for Outstanding Achievement award to actor Yuya Yagira for his role in Kentaro's Under The Turquoise Sky, which will be screened as the centerpiece of the film. Yagira was the youngest winner of the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for Hirokazu Kore-eda's Nobody Knows in 2004. Yagira and Kentaro will both attend the festival.
The First Slam Dunk, which will premiere on the East Coast at Japan Cuts, is the highest-grossing film at the Japanese box office so far this year and was recently acquired by Gkids for North American distribution.
Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto involves screening of Elizabeth Leonard's 1985 documentary Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto. The rarely shown cult film will screen with famed musician Akiko Yano and Leonard both in attendance.
Organized by the Japan Society, Japan Cuts runs from July 26 to August 6 in-person event after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic.
In total, the festival will screen 29 films, including five international premieres, ten North American premieres, seven American premieres, three East Coast premieres and three New York premieres. All screenings will take place at the Japan Society Center on East 47th Street with Japanese and English subtitles.
The festival also offers a competition section, Next Generation, which will present six feature films by emerging filmmakers, including recent Osaka Asian Film Festival winners Sanka: Mountain Nomads and When Morning Comes, I Feel Empty. The jury is made up of critic and essayist Moeko Fujii; Dan Sullivan, film programmer at Lincoln Center; and distributor Pearl Chan (Good Move Media, Kani Releasing).
Other sections include Feature Slate, screening of 14 recent Japanese narrative feature films and a program of shorts footage. The Three Sisters Of Tenmasou Inn by Ryuhei Kitamura will be screened as the closing film.
"Japan Cuts is one of the most popular Japan Society events and one of the favorites of the New York film scene," said Peter Tatara, director of the Japan Society. "After a hiatus during the pandemic, we couldn't be prouder that Japan Cuts is back with two weeks of thrilling, thought-provoking and heartbreaking films."
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