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Ready to take a ride on the Subway Cinema
One of my DVD binge purchases on Saturday was A Taste of Tea, a Japanese movie I fell totally in love with during a screening at the New York Asian Film Festival a few years ago. It was a movie that was tough to see for a long time but is now out on DVD and available on Netflix so add it to the queue. It’s about a quirky family in the Japanese suburbs that feels like it could be an Asian Amelie.
So I have good and obscure Asian cinema on the brain when what should pop into my inbox today but the lineup for this year’s NYAFF coming at the end of June! Hooray and yipee!
Good news: Takashi Miike (director of Audition and Ichi the Killer) has a new movie out, and it’s a “berserk” English-language spaghetti Western, called Sukiyaki Western Django, “Full of female gunfighters, clockwork wheelchairs, razor sharp samurai swords and tiny fetuses growing inside blooming flowers this is the Takashi Miike movie Variety calls “one of his wildest ideas yet.” And they’re right.” Sounds awesome.
Better news: Takeshi Kaneshiro from House of Flying Daggers, a dreamy matinee idol if ever we saw one, has a romantic comedy in the festival called Accuracy of Death wherein he plays the angel of death.