"The Real You" is an adaptation of Keiichiro Hirano's 2021 novel of the same name. (本心). Directed by Yuya Ishii, who also wrote the screenplay, the film opens on a stormy night when 'Sakuya', played...
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"The Real You" is an adaptation of Keiichiro Hirano's 2021 novel of the same name. (本心). Directed by Yuya Ishii, who also wrote the screenplay, the film opens on a stormy night when 'Sakuya', played...
TEKI COMETH (Daihachi Yoshida 2024)
An old man living alone in a beautiful traditional Japanese house fades into subtle loss of reality. Literary adaptation won best film, best director, and...
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KYOZO NAGAATSUKA IN TEKI COMETH
DAIHACHI YOSHIDA: TEKI COMETH (2024)
Gerontion
Recommeded by Nick Newman in The Film Stage's list of ten films...
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JAPAN CUTS July 10-20, 2025 REVIEWS
GENERAL FILM FORUM
LINKS TO REVIEWS
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FILMLEAF FESTIVAL REVIEW FORUM
Japan Society NYC presents the 18th annual Japan Cuts, the largest festival of Japanese cinema in the US, from July...
GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (Hanung Bramantyo 2025)
From a commercially successful Indonesian director, an epic, generaion-corssing tale of sex training for well-born young males that leads to a...
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HANBUNG BRAMANTYO: GOWOK: JAVANESE KAMASUTRA (2024)
Indonesian epic of sex training strays too far from its opening sweetness
In his detailed and...
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 by being caught in an intimate tape that went...
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DECHEN RODER: I, THE SONG (2024)
TRAILER
Tracking down one's more risqué double in Bhutan
This film from Bhutan about a staid schoolteacher who ...
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 Third Wife was about a weathy 19th-century Vietnamese...
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 be the protagonist of even an absurdist comedy,...
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LE YONYI; DEEP IN THE MOUNTAIN (2025)
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Bumbling local officials let an evil man roam free in the Chinese provinces
Le Yongyi was an...
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ASH MAYFAIR: SKIN OF YOUTH (2025)
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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 industry to its young recruits who are thrown away in...
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CHOI SUNG-EUN, HA SEO-YOON, KANG CHAE-YUN IN TIME TO BE STRONG
NAMKOONG SUN: TIME TO BE STRONG (2024)
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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, (it reminded me of Quentin Tarantino) from a...
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 class, which entrances one of them, and they they...
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ROSUKE KUBOZUKA IN TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS
TOSHIOKI TOYODA: TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS (2025)
A laughing monk, a mountain mystic, a hit man, and a...
RAVENS (Mark Gill 2024)
A renowned Japanese art photographer gets a rock star biopic.
Sunday July 20, 9:00pm
Film at Lincoln Center
Premium screening. Intro and Q&A with director Mark Gill,...
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HURI, YOUTA MIMOTO, TEITA SHIMADA IN HOW DARE YOU?
MIPO OH: HOW DARE YOU? (2024)
Love and environmental radicalism at a Japanese elementary school
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ALEX ROSS PERRY: VIDEOHEAVEN (2025)
The rise and decline of the video store, as told in film clips
This is a film about video stores, which has...
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DANIELLE DEADWYLER IN 40 ACRES
R.T. THORNE: 40 ACRES (2024)
Post apocalyptic Black drama is more family conflict than promised gore
"Forty...
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TADANOBU ASANO AND KUMI TAKUCHI IN RAVENS
MARK GILL: RAVENS (2025)
A Japanese art photographer gets a rock star biopic
Biopics. Can't live...
MISSING CHILD VIDEOTAPE ミッシング・チャイルド・ビデオテープ (Ryota Kondo 2024)
A. tasty and promising understated Japan horror debut, using Blair Witch mood, trauma of personal loss, and subtle pleasing...
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RAIRU SUGITA IN MISSING CHILD VIDEOTAPE
RYOTA KONDO: MISSING CHILD VIDEOTAPE (2024)
A. tasty and promising understated Japan horror debut
A...