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Film JAPAN CUTS 2025 『ニンゲン合格』 Ningen Gokaku Archival 35mm Presentation—Introduction by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s fascinating...

MICHIYUKI - VOICES OF TIME 道行き(Hiromichi Nakao 2024) A film about buying an old traditional Japanese house in Nara, about time, and about trains,...

sushine a film about figure skating and homophobia

the real you

HANGING GARDEN (Toshiaki Toyoda 2005) It's said Toyoda paved the way with this 'exposure' of a Japanese family for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo...

ANNE SUZUKI IN HANGING GARDEN FROM NYAFF: A special 20th anniversary screening of NYAFF 2025 Filmmaker in Focus Toshiaki Toyoda’s unnerving 2005...

LINKS TO FILMLEAF JAPAN CUTS 2025 REVIEWS BEGIN HERE: TEKI COMETH (Daihachi Yoshida 2024) An old man living alone in a beautiful traditional...

Japan Cuts 2025 Program Opening, Centerpiece, & Closing Films Opening Film ChaO (Special Screening) 『ChaO』(チャオ) Thursday, July 10 at 6:00...

HIROSHI OKUYAMA: MY SUNSHINE ぼくのお日さま (2024) A pair of young figure skaters who weren't Hiroshi Okuyama's My Sunshine is so consciously stylish...

HIROMICHI NAKAO: MICHIYUKI - VOICES OF TIME 道行き (2024) Preserving the past and thinking about time in Japan This is a wonderfully sui generis...

SOSUKE IKEMATSU, KOSHI MIZUKAMI IN THE REAL YOU YUYA ISHII: THE REAL YOU 本心 (2024) Bonding in a world dominated by AI The Real You is an...

KYOZO NAGAATSUKA IN TEKI COMETH DAIHACHI YOSHIDA: TEKI COMETH (2024) Gerontion Recommeded by Nick Newman in The Film Stage's list of ten...

GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (Hanung Bramantyo 2025) From a commercially successful Indonesian director, an epic, generaion-corssing tale of sex...

HANBUNG BRAMANTYO: GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (2024) Indonesian epic of sex training strays too far from its opening sweetness In his detailed...

I,THE SONG (Dechen Roder 2024) In this handsome film from Bhutan a banished schoolteacher searches for her double who has gotten her into trouble...

DECHEN RODER: I, THE SONG (2024) TRAILER Tracking down one's more risqué double in Bhutan This film from Bhutan about a staid schoolteacher...

SKIN OF YOUTH (Ash Mayfair 2025) Ash Mayfield is a sensuas visual poet who studied at NYU's Tisch school of the arts and whose first film The...

DEEP IN THE MOUNTAIN (Le Yongli 2025) For me the central villain is too evil (and, as it turns out, a real figure from nineties China to boot) to...

LE YONYI; DEEP IN THE MOUNTAIN (2025) TRAILER Bumbling local officials let an evil man roam free in the Chinese provinces Le Yongyi was an...

ASH MAYFAIR: SKIN OF YOUTH (2025) TRAILER A Vietnamese trans love story that's like gorgeous and sexy music video NYU-trained Vietnamese...

TIME TO BE STRONG (Namkoong Sun 2024) Korean film of three former K-pop idols on a trip to Jeju island brings out the cruelty of the K-Pop...

CHOI SUNG-EUN, HA SEO-YOON, KANG CHAE-YUN IN TIME TO BE STRONG NAMKOONG SUN: TIME TO BE STRONG (2024) TRAILER Time to Be Strong subtly...

TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS (Toshioki Toyoda 2025) A striking (and economical) new film combining elements of spiritual, sci-fi, and gangster action,...

HOW DARE YOU? (Mipo Oh 2024) A charming drama about a trio of fourth grade kids in Japan, two boys who join a girl who channels Greta Turnberg in...

ROSUKE KUBOZUKA IN TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS TOSHIOKI TOYODA: TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS (2025) A laughing monk, a mountain mystic, a hit man,...