The (7th ) Japan Cuts Leg of NYAFF 2013

In its seventh season, with 10 days of screenings and over 20 titles, JAPAN CUTS 2013 presents the roughest, sharpest, and smoothest of today s cuttingedge Japanese film scene, encompassing biggerthanlife blockbusters, highconcept art house titles, moving and provoking documentaries, delirious romcoms, refined melodramas and a handful of UFOsunidentified film objects. Taking place from July 11 to 21, JAPAN CUTS 2013 again dovetails with the New York Asian Film Festival (in its 12th edition, June 28July 15), which copresents 12 films from July 1114. From the deep to the deeply depraved, the fantastic to the fetishistic, the outstanding to the outrageous, JAPAN CUTS 2013 selections have the typical blend of unbending artistry and rebellious eccentricity, that has made the brand of the festival. Hard, rough, sharp, smooth and softedged: such is today s film scene from Japan. Highlights include the smashhit samurai blockbuster Rurouni Kenshin; Toshiaki Toyoda s bloody, trippy, retu