SHE TAUGHT ME SERENDIPITY
Variety review by Rchard Kuipers.
The Japan Times review by Mark Schilling.
Director Akiko Ohku's films on the young and lonely have a following in Japan, and...
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SHE TAUGHT ME SERENDIPITY
Variety review by Rchard Kuipers.
The Japan Times review by Mark Schilling.
Director Akiko Ohku's films on the young and lonely have a following in Japan, and...
PROMISED LAND プロミスト・ランド Masashi Iijima 2924)
Two young men go on a forbidden bear hunt in the mountains to maintain cultural traditions, and are radically changed.
Showtime:
Saturday, July...
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RAIRU SUGITA, KANICHIRO IN PROMISED LAND
MASASHI IIJIMA: PROMISED LAND (2024)
Two young men carry on a forbidden bear hunt
Masashi Iijima's...
SEE YOU TOMORROW ほなまた明日, (Saki Michimoto, 2024)
Young filmmaker Michimoto dramatizes an art school program in photography showing how one student looms over all the others and may cramp their...
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RISA SHIGEMATSU, MAKOTO TANAKA, RYOTA MATSUDA, TAKURO AKIYAMA IN SEE YOU TOMORROW
SAKI MICHIMOTO: SEE YOU TOMORROW ほなまた明日 (2024)S
The...
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LEO IMAMURA, NATSUKO, YUTAKA KYAN, AND ROCKO ZVENBERGEN IN THE GESUIDOUZ
KENICHI UGANA: THE GESUIDOUZ (2024)
TRAILER
Saga of a punk band in...
SERPENT'S PATH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2024)
Kurosawa's French-set remake of his own grim 1998 film about revenge against child traffickers has Matthieu Amalric and Grégoire Colin getting tortured.
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LICENSE TO LIVE ニンゲン合格 (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1998)
First big role for HIdetoshi Nishijima as a young man awanened from a 10-year coma who looks for a place to call his own and breifly finds it is a...
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SLIMANE DAZI, DAMIEN BONNARD, KO SHIMASAKI IN SERPENT'S PATH
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: SERPENT'S PATH (2024)
Relentless cruelty in response to horrific...
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HIDETOSHI NISHIJIMA IN LICENSE TO LIVE
KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: LICENSE TO LIVE ニンゲン合格 (1998)]
Starman
In Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1998 License to Live,...
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, a sui generis effort that reminded me of Jem Cohen...
MY SUNSHINE ぼくのお日さま (Hiroshi Okuyama 2024)
A delicately stylish film about young figure skaters, particularly a male one, and homophobia arouind the coach.
Saturday, July 19, 2025
2:30 pm...
THE REAL YOU (Youya Ishii 2024)
An adaptation of Keiichiro Hirano's 2021 novel of the same name (本心) it's a sci-fi tale about AI, human connection, and surrogate humans.
Friday, July 11, 2025...
HANGING GARDEN (Toshiaki Toyoda 2005)
It's said Toyoda paved the way with this 'exposure' of a Japanese family for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata, Kore-eda’s Still Walking, and Sion Sono’s...
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LEXI VENTER IN DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT
EMBETH DAVIDTZ: DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (2024)
Here is a film whose main characters...
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ANNE SUZUKI IN HANGING GARDEN
FROM NYAFF: A special 20th anniversary screening of NYAFF 2025 Filmmaker in Focus Toshiaki Toyoda’s unnerving 2005 portrait...
LINKS TO FILMLEAF JAPAN CUTS 2025 REVIEWS BEGIN HERE:
TEKI COMETH (Daihachi Yoshida 2024)
An old man living alone in a beautiful traditional Japanese house fades into subtle loss of reality....
Japan Cuts 2025 Program
Opening, Centerpiece, & Closing Films
Opening Film
ChaO (Special Screening)
『ChaO』(チャオ)
Thursday, July 10 at 6:00 PM
Wednesday, July 16 at 6:00 PM
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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...
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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...
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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...
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KYOZO NAGAATSUKA IN TEKI COMETH
DAIHACHI YOSHIDA: TEKI COMETH 敵 (2024)
Gerontion
Recommeded by Nick Newman in The Film Stage's list of ten...
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JAPAN CUTS July 10-20, 2025 REVIEWS
GENERAL FILM FORUM
LINKS TO REVIEWS
LICENSE TO LIVE ニンゲン合格 (Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1998)
PROMISED LAND...
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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...