{"id":60791,"date":"2011-06-30T16:31:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2011\/06\/30\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T12:24:40","slug":"new-york-asian-film-festival-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Asian Film Festival Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/films\/series\/new-york-asian-film-festival\">10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival<\/a> Preview<\/strong>by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n<p>June 30, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9756\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-logo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9756\" title=\"NYAFF logo\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 500 264'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend marks the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/films\/series\/new-york-asian-film-festival\">10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival<\/a><\/strong> with the Film Society of Lincoln Center&#8217;s Walter Reade Theater (July 1 &#8211; 14), in partnership with the Japan Society&#8217;s &#8220;Japan Cuts&#8221; program (July 7 &#8211; 10), showcasing 46 films from the Far East.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9742\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-milocrorze-a-love-story\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-9742\" title=\"NYAFF - Milocrorze A Love Story\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 200'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-Milocrorze-A-Love-Story-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><strong>Yoshimasa Ishibashi&#8217;s &#8216;Milocrorze: A Love Story&#8217; <\/strong>is slated as the opening night film selection.<\/p>\n<p>This freaked-out slab of solid psychedelia is what movies will look like in the year 23,000 AD! Makes Matthew Barney look tame. A bizarro musical\/variety\/samurai\/love story directed by Yoshimasa Ishibashi, the mad genius behind \u201cThe Fuccon Family\u201d television show, and starring Takayuki Yamada in three different roles, Milocrorze: A Love Story defies description. Following a scene where a young boy falls in love with the title character, only to have his heart broken by her, the film introduces us to three young men who are all in Milocrorze thrall, either literally or figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>Also a highlight of this year\u2019s festival is <strong>Andy Lau<\/strong>\u2018s starring role in <strong>Benny Chan<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8216;<strong>Shaolin<\/strong>,&#8217; which will be the centerpiece film.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9743\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-shaolin\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-medium wp-image-9743\" title=\"NYAFF - Shaolin\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 199'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-Shaolin-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. The young general Hao Jie (Andy Lau) has caused much of this mess, with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>When Hao is betrayed by fellow general Cao Man (Nicolas Tse), he is forced into hiding, and takes refuge with the monks (including Jackie Chan) at their hidden mountain temple. As the days pass, he finds himself more and more at ease, as he learns the ways of peace. But Cao is not far behind, and war soon reaches the temple, where the monks are ready to fight back with a fierce style that none of the warlords have ever seen- their unstoppable Shaolin Kung Fu.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9744\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-ninja-kids\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload alignleft size-medium wp-image-9744\" title=\"NYAFF - NINJA KIDS\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 200'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-NINJA-KIDS-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also part of the centerpiece is <strong>Takashi Miike<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8216;<strong>Ninja Kids<\/strong>,&#8217; which will have its world premiere here and serves up a Harry Potter meets ninjas scenario for kids, and surreal action-comedy for adults.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the popular Japanese kid\u2019s show Rantaro the Ninja Boy (running for 1,437 episodes and counting!) it\u2019s all about young Rantaro in his first year at Ninja School. But he\u2019s hardly at school for five minutes before a classmate &#8211; literally &#8211; has the snot beaten out of him, gangster hairdressers appear, Mr. Konnamon, your friendly ninja trivia commentator, starts dropping by and more wild ninja tricks than you can hit with a throwing star are flying off the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmlinc.com\/films\/series\/new-york-asian-film-festival\">notable films at the festival <\/a>include<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9745\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-bedevilled\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9745\" title=\"NYAFF - Bedevilled\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 361'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-Bedevilled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BEDEVILLED<\/strong><br \/>\nWinner of multiple film festival awards, Bedevilled star Seo Young-Hee took home six \u201cBest Actress\u201d awards for her performance as a woman who ventures back to her childhood home on a remote island: an untamed hellhole populated by a handful of ruddy-faced men and old women bleached orange by the sun. It\u2019s a misogynistic anti-Eden where the women work in the fields from dawn to dusk and prey on each other in competition for the savage, square-faced brutes they call their men. And when tragedy strikes, their sick little island paradise will never be the same. The film\u2019s cast also includes Ji Seong-Won, Seo Young-Hee, Park Jung-Hak, Jo Duk-Je and Je-Min.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9746\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-detective-dee-and-the-mystery-of-the-phantom-flame\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9746\" title=\"NYAFF - DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 362'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-DETECTIVE-DEE-AND-THE-MYSTERY-OF-THE-PHANTOM-FLAME.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME<\/strong><br \/>\nTsui Hark achieves true greatness with Detective Dee, a return to the days when Hong Kong movies meant speed, madness, entertainment, spectacle, strong women, tragic heroes, cynical politics, kinetic action and kung fu deer. Carina Lau (in an award-winning performance) plays the Empress Wu, a controversial real-life figure whose coronation is being undermined by a series of assassinations by spontaneous combustion. To unravel the conspiracy she must release from prison the Sherlock Holmes-ian court official, Detective Dee (Andy Lau), whom she put there eight years previously for treason. This lavish blockbuster won Tsui Hark \u201cBest Director\u201d at the Hong Kong Film Awards and grabbed almost all the technical and design trophies, too.<br \/>\n<strong>***The movie\u00b9s director, Tsui Hark, will be at the screening<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9747\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-haunters\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9747\" title=\"NYAFF - HAUNTERS\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 386'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-HAUNTERS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HAUNTERS<\/strong><br \/>\n50% horror movie, 50% superhero film and 100% Korean thriller, this is one dark, super-powered ride that became a big hit when it was released all about a kid who has the power to control minds and the ordinary joe who\u2019s out to stop him. The directorial debut of Kim Min-Suk, the screenwriter behind The Good, The Bad and the Weird, Haunters is the dizzying lovechild of Unbreakable and The Fugitive, a genre beast that mixes pulse-pounding thrills with gut-wrenching moments like a woman forced to toss her helpless baby in front of a speeding train. This box office hit from Korea shows the dark side of the X-men, portraying a world where the only people with superpowers are psychopaths and it\u2019s up the normal folks to step up and shut them down.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9748\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-punished\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9748\" title=\"NYAFF - Punished\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 387'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-Punished.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PUNISHED<\/strong><br \/>\nFrom producer Johnnie To (Election) comes this kidnap drama from his longtime editor and assistant director, Law Wing-cheong. Anthony Wong, one of Hong Kong\u2019s best actors, turns in the performance of his career as a real estate tycoon whose party girl daughter goes missing. He vows to get her back by any means necessary. Cut to: him finding her corpse, accidentally killed by the panicking kidnappers. Wong calls his enforcer and instructs him to kill everyone involved, but things aren\u2019t what they seem, and before long everyone is down the rabbit hole and no one can be trusted.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9749\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-reign-of-assassins\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9749\" title=\"NYAFF - Reign of Assassins\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 375'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-Reign-of-Assassins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>REIGN OF ASSASSINS<\/strong><br \/>\nA hyper-romantic martial arts film that gives Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a run for its money, Reign of Assassins was a huge hit across Asia. Pairing screen legend, Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) with Korea\u2019s much-loved, Jung Woo-Sung, and co-directed by John Woo (Red Cliff, Face\/Off) it\u2019s crammed with so much talent it\u2019s practically erupting. Yeoh plays a swordswoman who goes into retirement and settles down with the ordinary joe she loves. Unfortunately, her past comes back to haunt her, as assassins from her former guild find where she\u2019s living and come after her with whips, acupuncture needles and lethal swords swinging. In this movie, every vicious swordsman leads a domestic double life, past sins dog their fleet feet and the shriek of sharp steel being drawn from its scabbard is the soundtrack of their lives. Enjoy the action, but stay for the emotions: Reign of Assassins is a martial arts movie with a heavy human heart.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9750\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-the-chaser\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9750\" title=\"NYAFF - The Chaser\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 387'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-The-Chaser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE CHASER<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2007, the Korean film industry hit the skids. Overproduction resulted in a glut of shoddy movies and only 10% of films were turning a profit. Things looked bad, but then two low budget movies released in early 2008 became massive word-of-mouth hits and turned everything around. One of them was The Chaser. It shouldn\u2019t have been good. Starring two mid-list actors, directed by a first timer who was best known for winning an award for his short film in the Mise en Scene Genre Short Film Festival, and based on the real life serial killer, Young-cheol Yoo (convicted of 20 murders in 2005), it looked like little more than an exercise in pointless gore. But in the hands of director Na Hong-Jin and his two actors, Ha Jung-Woo and Kim Yun-Seok, it turned into a thriller so tense that it felt like it was directed by a cross between Alfred Hitchcock and a pit bull.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9751\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-the-man-from-nowhere\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9751\" title=\"NYAFF - The Man From Nowhere\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 387'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-The-Man-From-Nowhere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE MAN FROM NOWHERE<\/strong><br \/>\nBeating everything at the Korean box office (including Inception and Iron Man 2) and winning 12 of Korea\u2019s biggest film awards, The Man From Nowhere is a sleek, streamlined thrill machine. One part Batman and one part Bourne, star Won Bin plays a retired government operative, living in obscurity, collecting his pension and minding his own business. But when a gang of black market organ harvesters abduct the kid who lives next door, he swings into action like a sleek torpedo, tearing through everyone in his path as he races to the rescue. If you thought Hollywood had a lock on taut, tight, high impact summer blockbusters, think again.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9752\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-the-unjust\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9752\" title=\"NYAFF - The Unjust\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 387'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-The-Unjust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE UNJUST<\/strong><br \/>\nLongtime NYAFF favorite, director Ryoo Seung-Wan (City of Violence, also screening in this year\u2019s festival), may be best known for his action movies but with The Unjust he\u2019s delivered the best movie of his career. Like Serpico or The Wire jacked up on amphetamines, it\u2019s a nightmare vision of twisted bureaucracy, failed government, and sprawling corruption. A corrupt cop and an even more corrupt district attorney go to war with each other as they try to find a scapegoat for a series of slayings and keep a gang war from boiling over into open violence. Echoing films like Anatomy of a Murder, The Unjust is a powerful indictment of the South Korean criminal justice system and of our own carnivorous instincts to succeed at all cost.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9753\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/nyaff-the-yellow-sea\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9753\" title=\"NYAFF - THE YELLOW SEA\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 386'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/NYAFF-THE-YELLOW-SEA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE YELLOW SEA<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 2008, Na Hong-Jin and actors Ha Jung-Woo and Kim Yun-Seok set Korean cinema on fire with The Chaser (also screening at this year\u2019s festival). Their low budget movie about a pimp looking for a serial killer became a massive word-of-mouth hit and shot 50,000 watts of high voltage current through the Korean film industry. Now, with a bigger budget from 20th Century Fox, director Ha and his two actors reunite to unleash this sprawling hitman epic written in bruised knuckles and broken teeth that was a selection of Un Certain Regard at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival. The Yellow Sea is a big, relentless movie about a gambling addicted cabbie set up by a crime boss to take a big fall in Seoul. However, he turns out to have a talent for survival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2011 Star Asia Awards will go to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Asia Rising Star Award<\/strong><br \/>\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9754\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/takayuki-yamada\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9754\" title=\"Takayuki Yamada\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 500 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Takayuki-Yamada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <strong>Takayuki Yamada<\/strong> &#8211; Japan\u00b9s most versatile young actor has gone from being a TV heartthrob to a TRAIN MAN (his breakthrough role) to one of Takashi Miike\u00b9s 13 ASSASSINS. And in this year&#8217;s Opening Night selection,<br \/>\nMILOCRORZE: A LOVE STORY, he plays every single male part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9755\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2011\/06\/new-york-asian-film-festival-preview\/tsui-hark-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter size-full wp-image-9755\" title=\"Tsui Hark 1\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 580 406'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Tsui-Hark-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tsui Hark<\/strong> &#8211; One of our first events was a retrospective of Hong Kong&#8217;s veteran filmmaker and award-winning director, Tsui Hark, way back in 2001. We figured it was time to bring him to the festival and recognize his extraordinary, lifelong contributions to Hong Kong cinema, especially after his latest film, DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME, was a huge box office hit and won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival Previewby Wilson Morales June 30, 2011 This weekend marks the 10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival with the Film Society of Lincoln Center&#8217;s Walter Reade Theater (July 1 &#8211; 14), in partnership with the Japan Society&#8217;s &#8220;Japan Cuts&#8221; program (July 7 &#8211; 10), showcasing 46 films from [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" 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