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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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