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Japan Cuts 2020 Review: SACRIFICE, Impressive, Brooding Examination of a Generation Under Siege
The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake of 11th of March 2011, which took the lives of 15,000, seared deeply into the collective Japanese psyche. There have been films dealing with the aftermath of the disaster, manifested into popular culture in myriad...
Japan Cuts 2020 Review: Impending Doom Fuels IT FEELS SO GOOD
Emoto Tasuku and Takiuchi Kumi star in director Arai Haruhiko's romantic tale.
Japan Cuts 2020: Festival Going Virtual, SPECIAL ACTORS Opening
Film festivals large and small have been faced with the same challenge in this, the year of the pandemic: delay, cancel, or go virtual? Based in New York City, and beloved home to North America's largest annual program of contemporary...