Special Report: Japan Cuts 2024

Special Guests: Peter Tatara, Alexander Fee

The Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film, North America’s largest Japanese film festival, presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji Iwai, Sho Miyake and Shinya Tsukamoto. Mike talks with Peter Tatara (Director of Film, Japan Society) and Alexander Fee (Film Programmer, Japan Society) about the Japan Cuts Film Festival, which runs July 10 - 21, 2024.

Find out more at the website https://japansociety.org/film/japancuts/

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Music:
"Pocky and Sake" - Sissy Bar

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Special Report: Japan Cuts Film Festival 2023

Special Guests: Peter Tatara, Alexander Fee, Elizabeth Lennard

Mike talks with Peter Tatara and Alexander Fee, programmers from the Japan Cuts Film Festival which runs July 26 - August 6, 2023.

On another episode, Mike talks with filmmaker Elizabeth Lennard about her film Tokyo Melody, a documentary about musician Ryuichi Sakamoto which plays at the Japan Cuts festival.

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Listen to "Special Report: Tokyo Melody (1985)" on Spreaker.

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Music:
"Back in Tokyo" - Yellow Magic Orchestra
"Cosmic Surfin'" - Yellow Magic Orchestra

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TOKYO MELODY: A FILM ABOUT RYUICHI SAKAMOTO (Elizabeth Lennard, 1985) from Spectacle on Vimeo.