O'GRADY FILM

For my sixth and final screening of Japan Cuts 2019, I saw NIGHT CRUISING, a documentary that depicts a blind man’s attempt at directing a short movie. Altho...

For my fifth Japan Cuts screening of 2019, I decided to be adventurous and see Experimental Spotlight: Palm of the Hand Cinema, an eclectic collection of qui...

Japan Cuts has reached its penultimate day, and although I’m terribly exhausted following a long week at work, I still intend to sample as many of its cinema...

For my third Japan Cuts screening of 2019, I saw Samurai Shifters, a period comedy about a clan that is forced to repeatedly relocate across the country (a c...

Just got back in from my second Japan Cuts screening, Ten Years Japan—a significantly more somber and thematically dense affair than the cute cat movie. Exec...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Japan Cuts, my favorite annual film festival, has officially commenced! For my first screening, I decided to go wit...

Saw Amiko, my third and final Japan Cuts screening. Twenty-year-old(!) director Yoko Yamanaka, who was on hand to introduce the film, seemed self-conscious a...

Just got back in from my second Japan Cuts screening: Tremble All You Want, a fascinating film that begins as a lighthearted, whimsical romantic comedy… befo...

After spending most of the day enjoying some much-needed R&R (having worked the entire week while battling an infuriatingly persistent chest cold), I braved ...

Just got back in from my final Japan Cuts screening. This one wasn’t a recent production, but it was making its North American debut in its gorgeous digitall...

The Japan Cuts film festival wraps up this weekend, and today, I attended the penultimate screening of my five-ticket bundle: Shippu Rondo, a comedic thrille...

Saw Haruneko, the the last of the three kinda, sorta cat-themed movies screened at the Japan Cuts festival. The program described it as avant-garde, though I...

Just got home from Neko Atsume House, the second feature of my Japan Cuts experience. Based on, of all things, a mobile phone app, the movie avoids the usual...

Attended my first screening of Japan Cuts, Japan Society’s annual showcase of recent releases from the Land of the Rising Sun. The film was called Alley Cat ...