March 24 (Friday): Retrospective – Nobuo Nakagawa, The Maestro of Japanese Horror Films
The Fusion Asian Cinema (FAC) program launches on with Nobuo Nakagawa’s retro horror masterpieces from the 1950's and 1960’s. The series was first shown to mark Nakagawa’s centennial at the Tokyo Filmex Festival ’05. This is the U.S. Premiere of Nakagawa's series, coming straight from the Berlin Film Festival. Director Nobuo Nakagawa (1905 – 1984) is known as the maestro of horror films with his own unique creativity that transcends genres. Possessing unconventional techniques, striking visuals, and entertaining stories, Nakagawa’s films will give audiences the opportunity to discover some fascinating cinematic art that still influences the contemporary Japanese horror genre. With generous support from the Japan Foundation and Aratani Japan America Theatre, we are screening four of Nakagawa’s signature films on new prints with English subtitles: A Wicked Woman, Hell, Mansion of the Ghost Cat,and Ghost Story of Yotsuya. Don’t miss the first and only day these films are shown in the U.S.A.!
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March 25 (Saturday): Cult Fusion
Cult Fusion presents a range of films from commercial blockbusters to the uniquely artistic. The transcultural wave is on full display starting with a Bollywood action flick, EK Ajnabee, a Hollywood remake that took place in Bangkok. Along with flick, groundbreaking shorts Cut and Magical Wash Machine from several Asia’s most promising young filmmakers, Royston Tan and Robin Lee. U.S. premieress from South. Korea’s lesser known but growing horror scene includes psychological thriller Antarctic Journal and ghosty Red Eye.genre Cult Fusion is heightened with LA premiere of Clean, a film by French filmmaker Olivier Assayas and starring Cannes Films Festival’s Best Actress Award winner Maggie Cheung.
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March 26 (Sunday):Documentaries & Special Projects
FAC program wraps up with a series of emotionally engaging documentaries: The Last Rice Farmers, one of the brightest gems of Taiwan’s vibrant documentary scene; Annyong Sayonara, which deals with the post-war Korean-Japanese relationship; and four short documentaries from JEEVIKA, the South Asian Livelihood Documentary Festival in New Delhi, India; each center on the struggles of men and women with a working-class livelihood and are brought to you through our special collaboration with India’s Centre for Civil Society. Cui Zi’en, the first openly gay filmmaker to emerge from China, brings us a feature about male prostitution in China that walks the line between documentary and fiction, Night Scene. The final FAC highlight is a series of digital shorts by three preeminent Asian filmmakers commissioned by South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Haze, Song Il-gong’s Magicians, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Worldly Desires.
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