JAPAN CUTS
THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE CINEMA

July 12-28, 2012

"North America's premiere showcase for
Japanese film" (Firefox News), JAPAN CUTS is an
inimitable platform for contemporary Japanese cinema, showing the diversity and
vitality of one of the most exciting world cinemas, and ranging from refined,
high-concept art house titles to popular and grindhouse genre movies. In its
sixth consecutive year, JAPAN CUTS 2012 includes close to 40
titles screening from July 12 to 28, with 12 co-presentations with the New York
Asian Film Festival (NYAFF, 11th edition), with which it forms a winning summer
fest combination that shows 100 films annually.  As its centerpiece, this
year’s edition of the festival will highlight the career of living Japanese
film legend Koji
Yakusho. Visit the website for information and to purchase tickets!

Thursday,
July 12

6:30 - Asura

8:15 - Smuggler

Friday, July
13

6:30 - Hard Romanticker

8:40 - The Atrocity Exhibition (Let's Make the Teacher… + Big
Gun + Henge)

Saturday,
July 14

1:00 - Scabbard Samurai

3:15 - Tokyo
Playboy Club

5:30 - Gyo

7:15 - Love
Strikes! + Striking Love! JAPAN CUTS Opening Party!*

Sunday, July
15

1:30 - Ace Attorney

4:15 - Tormented

6:00 - Monsters
Club*

8:00 - Chips

Tuesday,
July 17

7:30 - Zombie Ass

Wednesday,
July 18

7:30 - Girls for Keeps

Thursday,
July 19

6:30 - Someday

8:30 - 9 Souls

Friday, July
20

7:00 - The Woodsman and the Rain, Centerpiece
Gala Presentation*

Saturday,
July 21

1:00 - Shall We Dance?

3:30 - Toad's
Oil

6:00 - Chronicle
of My Mother

8:20 - 13
Assassins*

11:00 - Cure

Sunday, July
22

1:00 - Love Strikes!

3:15 - No Man's
Zone*

5:20 - About the
Pink Sky

7:20 - Isn't
Anyone Alive?

9:30 - Roadside
Fugitive

Tuesday,
July 24

7:00 - Rebirth

Wednesday,
July 25

7:00 - Rent-a-Cat*

9:15 - Ushijima
the Loan Shark

Tuesday,
July 26

7:00 - Don't
Stop! + DON'T STOP! JAPAN CUTS Party*

Friday, July
27

7:00 – Leonie*

Saturday,
July 28

1:00 - A Gentle Rain Falls for Fukushima

3:00 - Women on
the Edge

5:00 - Lonely
Swallows

7:00 - The Brat!

9:00 - Space
Battleship Yamato

*Director or actor introduction and/or Q&A!