Events
September 16 - September 18Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixtieswww.visualunderground.ca/
September 30 - October 16New York Film FestivalIncludes a rather spectacular Nikkatsu 100th Birthday Retrospective.
www.filmlinc.com/blog/e.....ation
October 1 - October 8Pordenone Silent Film FestivalIncludes "The Birth of Anime: Pioneers of Japanese Animation"
www.cinetecadelfriuli.o......html
October 22 - October 30Tokyo International Film Festivalwww.tiff-jp.net/en/
May 2 - July 28Paysages du cinéma japonaiswww.mcjp.fr/francais/ci.....onais
June 27 - July 11Japanese Cinema for Busy People lecture serieswww.jpf.org.uk/whatson......t#443
June 29 - July 15New York Asian Film Festivalwww.subwaycinema.com/nyaff12/
July 10Masao Adachi: Prisoner/Terroristwww.gasworks.org.uk/eve.....d=766
July 12 - July 15Shinsedai Cinema Festivalwww.shinsedai.ca/
July 12 - July 28Japan Cutswww.japansociety.org/japan_cuts_2012
July 14 - July 22Skip City D-cinema Festivalwww.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/
July 19 - August 7Fantasia International Film Festivalwww.fantasiafest.com/pre2012/en/
September 14 - September 16Zipangu FestLondon, UK
zipangufest.com
September 18 - September 28Pia Film FestivalTokyo, Japan
pff.jp/english/
October 4 - October 7Camera Japan FestivalRotterdam, The Netherlands
camerajapan.nl/wp/
October 5 - October 14Kenji Misumi retrospectiveMuseum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, USA
www.movingimage.us/film.....sumi/
October 12 - October 14Camera Japan FestivalAmsterdam , The Netherlands
camerajapan.nl/wp/
October 16 - October 17Sound, Sense and SpaceMoviemento, Berlin, Germany
www.itsushikawase.com/sss/index.html
October 20 - October 28Tokyo International Film FestivalTokyo, Japan
2012.tiff-jp.net/en/
November 1Koji Yamamura retrospectiveLondon, UK
www.liaf.org.uk/2012/09.....a-15/
November 18 - February 25Tokyo 1955-1970MoMA, New York City, USA
www.moma.org/visit/cale...../1242
November 20 - November 27Festival des 3 ContinentsNantes, France
Includes a complete retrospective of the films of Shinji Somai.
www.3continents.com/en/.....omai/
November 22 - November 29Festival des 3 ContinentsNantes, France
www.3continents.com/le_......html
November 23 - December 2Tokyo FILMeXTokyo, Japan
filmex.net/2012/en/
November 28 - January 26Kinotayo FestivalParis and throughout France
www.kinotayo.fr/films-2012.php
December 7 - December 21Nudes! Guns! Ghosts! The Sensational Cinema of ShintohoFreer and Sackler Galleries, Washington DC, USA
tinyurl.com/b77auxc
January 18 - April 6Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of NikkatsuToronto, Canada
tiff.net/filmsandschedu.....02889
February 7 - February 27Chronicles of Inferno: Japan's Art Theatre GuildPacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/ATG
February 25Yasujiro Ozu's Passing FancyFilm Forum, New York City, USA
www.filmforum.org/movie.....event
February 27 - March 10Into the Shintoho Mindwarp: Girls, Guns & GhostsJapan Society, New York City, USA
www.japansociety.org/pa.....-2013
March 8 - March 17Osaka Asian Film FestivalOsaka, Japan
www.oaff.jp/2013/english/
April 19 - April 27Far East Film FestivalUdine, Italy
www.fareastfilm.com/Eas......aspx
May 17 - June 29Tatsuya Nakadai retrospectiveMaison de la Culture du Japon, Paris, France
mcjp.fr/francais/cinema.....kadai
June 1 - June 30Seasons in the Sun: The Heyday of Nikkatsu StudiosBFI Southbank, London, UK
Curated by our own Jasper Sharp!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/nikkatsu-studios
June 4 - June 9Nippon ConnectionFrankfurt, Germany
www.nipponconnection.com/
June 6 - June 9Terracotta Far East Film FestivalLondon, UK
terracottafestival.com/
June 28 - July 15New York Asian Film FestivalNew York City, USA
subwaycinema.com/nyaff13/
July 11 - July 21Japan CutsJapan Society, New York City, USA
www.japansociety.org/japan-cuts-2013
July 12 - July 21Skip City International D-Cinema FestivalKawaguchi, Saitama, Japan
www.skipcity-dcf.jp/en/
July 18 - August 6Fantasia International FIlm FestivalMontreal, Canada
www.fantasiafestival.co.....tival
August 2 - August 31Seijun Suzuki retrospectiveArsenal, Berlin, Germany
www.arsenal-berlin.de/e......html
August 15Behind the Screen – Japanese Gothic talk by Jasper Sharp, and Throne of Blood screeningFilm4 Summer Screen, Somerset House, London, UK
jaspersharp.com/blog/ev.....thic/
September 18 - February 19A Tribute to Donald RichieJapan Society, New York City, USA
www.japansociety.org/pa.....ichie
September 19 - September 28Nagisa Oshima retrospectiveSan Sebastian Film Festival, Spain
www.sansebastianfestiva.....=3479
September 20A Page of MadnessFreer Gallery, Washington DC, USA
asia.si.edu/events/film.....15316
September 25 - September 29Camera Japan FestivalLantarenVenster, Rotterdam, Holland
www.camerajapan.nl
September 30 - October 6Camera Japan FestivalMelkweg Cinema + Kriterion, Amsterdam, Holland
www.camerajapan.nl
October 8 - March 29Les splendeurs de la DaieiMaison de la Culture du Japon, Paris, France
www.mcjp.fr/francais/ci.....daiei
October 9Tekkonkinkreet with Plaid liveBarbican, London, UK
www.barbican.org.uk/mus.....15137
October 10 - October 17Yamagata International Documentary Film FestivalYamagata, Japan
www.yidff.jp/
October 11 - October 20Sitges Film FestivalSitges, Spain
Includes a tribute to Takashi Miike, in his presence.
sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng
October 17 - October 25Tokyo International Film FestivalTokyo, Japan
tiff.yahoo.co.jp/2013/en/
November 7 - November 25Free Japanese film screenings by Japanese Embassy in HollandAmsterdam & Leiden, The Netherlands
camerajapan.nl/wp/?p=2538
November 8 - November 9Takahisa Zeze at YaleYale University, New Haven CT, USA
(Zeze will also be present at a screening of Heaven's Story at the Brattle Theatre, Harvard, on Nov. 10 at 15:00.)
h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/l.....eDLIA
November 13 - November 23Philadelphia Asian American Film FestivalPhiladelphia, PA, USA
www.phillyasianfilmfest.org
November 16Regards croisés sur OzuMaison de la Culture du Japon, Paris, France
www.mcjp.fr/francais/ci.....r-ozu
November 22 - December 12Hirokazu Koreeda retrospectiveCineteca Matadero + Japan Foundation, Madrid, Spain
www.fundacionjapon.es/A.....id=10
November 23 - December 1Tokyo FILMeXTokyo, Japan
filmex.net/2013/
January 7 - January 19The Aesthetics of Shadow, Part 1: JapanMoMA, NYC, USA
www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1449
January 17 - January 23Nagisa Oshima's BOY (new 35mm print)Film Forum, NYC, USA
www.filmforum.org/movies/more/boy
January 29 - March 29Paysages du cinéma japonaisMaison de la Culture du Japon, Paris, France
www.mcjp.fr/
January 31 - March 28East Side StoriesThe Japan Foundation's annual touring film program.
ICA, London, and throughout the UK
www.jpf-film.org.uk/
February 6 - February 16Aesthetics of ShadowA special program of Japanese films, inspired by Daisuke Miyao's book of the same name, out now from Duke University Press.
Berlinale, Berlin, Germany
www.berlinale.de/en/pre......html
February 18In & Out of JapanEYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.eyefilm.nl/en/ecinema-in-out-of-japan
March 13 - March 29Richie's Electric Eight: The Bold and the DaringPart 2 of the Japan Society's tribute to Donald Richie.
Japan Society, New York City, USA
March 19Two films by Gisaburo Sugii: Belladonna of SadnessMelkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.melkweg.nl/en/agend.....ess-2
March 23Two films by Gisaburo Sugii: Night on the Galactic RailroadMelkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.melkweg.nl/en/agend.....oad-2
March 26 - March 30Japan Square festivalStudio Skoop, Ghent, Belgium
www.japan-square.be/fil.....2014/
April 11 - May 24Japanese Red Cinema: Around Masao AdachiCinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium
www.nova-cinema.org/pro.....ng=en
April 19 - April 27Yuzo Kawashima retrospectiveKorean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
www.koreafilm.org/theat.....q=764
April 23 - May 26Yasujiro Ozu retrospectiveCinémathèque Française, Paris, France
www.cinematheque.fr/fr/......html
April 25 - May 3Far East Film FestivalUdine, Italy
www.fareastfilm.com
All dates are subject to change.