“Film Forum’s Japanese Horror Fest Celebrates Nightmare Fuel”

“Common wisdom holds that movie theaters are busiest on weekend evenings. Imagine film programmer Akinaru Rokkaku’s surprise, then, over packed weeknight screenings at the century-spanning Japanese Horror festival, in the books after its March 1-14 series run. Celebrated New York City movie house Film Forum held and co-presented the event with The Japan Foundation, New York; even in a city known for vast cultural diversity, a 25-picture lineup comprising horror Japanese-language films dating as far back as 1926, and as recently as 2002, would seem to play to a pretty niche audience.” (Full feature at JoySauce.)

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