<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Kinejapan,<br><br></div>The 56th New York Film Festival feature films were announced a couple of days ago.  Two Japanese films were included, <span style="font-weight:400">Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's <i>Asano I & II </i>and </span><span style="font-weight:400">Hirokazu Kore-eda's</span><br><i><span style="font-weight:400">Shoplifters.</span></i><span style="font-weight:400">  Both directors are festival favorites: Hamaguchi's <i>Happy Hour </i>was a New Directors/New Films selection a couple of years ago (New Directors is co-sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center [the sponsor of the NYFF] and the Museum of Modern Art), and several Kore-eda films have been included in previous NYFFs.  Several additional Asian films will be included in the festival: </span><span style="font-weight:400">Jia Zhangke's <i>Ash Is Purest White </i>(China), </span><span style="font-weight:400">Lee Chang-dong's <i>Burning </i>(South Korea), </span><span style="font-weight:400">Ying Liang's <i>A Family Tour </i>(Taiwan/...), </span><span style="font-weight:400">Hong Sangsoo's <i>Grass </i>and his <i>Hotel by the River </i></span><span style="font-weight:400">(both South Korea), </span><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Jafar Panahi's <i>3 Faces </i>(Iran), </span>and </span><span style="font-weight:400">Bi Gan's <i>Long Day's Journey Into Night</i></span><span style="font-weight:400"> (China/France).  The Festival runs from September 28 thru October 14.  Dates for individual films are still TBA, but the festival hopes to have many of the directors present.<br><br><a href="https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/daily/56th-new-york-film-festival-main-slate-announced/">https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2018/daily/56th-new-york-film-festival-main-slate-announced/</a><br><br><br></span></div><span style="font-weight:400">Also in New York this weekend thru August 15th, the Metrograph is presenting a Makoto Shinkai retrospective<br><br><a href="http://metrograph.com/series/series/168/makoto-shinkai">http://metrograph.com/series/series/168/makoto-shinkai</a><br><br></span></div><span style="font-weight:400">and reprising films from its Yoshida x 3 series from last weekend<br><br><a href="http://metrograph.com/series/series/165/yoshida-x-3">http://metrograph.com/series/series/165/yoshida-x-3</a><br><br><br></span></div><span style="font-weight:400">Bill Thompson<br></span></div>