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Lex+Otis Animation Studio has hired entertainment attorney and producer Lee Rudnicki as its executive vice president of business affairs.

Rudnicki’s responsibilities will include include legal and business oversight of the studio’s productions from development all the way through distribution and licensing phases.

The Los Angeles-based Rudnicki’s credits include Wonderwell, which stars the late Carrie Fisher in her final screen role, as well as Death Ride, Japanese filmmaker Junichi Suzuki’s Hollywood debut. He previously held roles at Eleven Arts, where he served as financing and production counsel for the US/Japanese co-productions. Rudnicki is also the author of the novel My ...

Lex+Otis Animation Studio has hired entertainment attorney and producer Lee Rudnicki as its executive vice president of business affairs.

Rudnicki’s responsibilities will include include legal and business oversight of the studio’s productions from development all the way through distribution and licensing phases.

The Los Angeles-based Rudnicki’s credits include Wonderwell, which stars the late Carrie Fisher in her final screen role, as well as Death Ride, Japanese filmmaker Junichi Suzuki’s Hollywood debut. He previously held roles at Eleven Arts, where he served as financing and production counsel for the US/Japanese co-productions. Rudnicki is also the author of the novel My ...

A catchall term for Japanese cuisine, washoku is omnipresent in these blessed United States thanks largely to one man: Noritoshi Kanai. The pioneer's legacy has expanded beyond sushi — which he introduced stateside in the 1960s — into other aspects of his native cuisine in the ensuing half-century, which Junichi Suzuki's documentary is careful to enumerate. Still, the transition hasn't been smooth for everyone: "They wanted me to perfect what is common," one chef at a Japanese restaurant here in America says with a hint of resignation about this country's customer-is-always-right philosophy. The tension between satisfying one's own creative inclinations and the less sophisticated palates of one's consumers is common among Wa-shoku's man...

Continuing its commitment to contemporary Japanese fare, Viz Cinema has been busy throughout the month of October with the San Francisco premiere of John H. Lee's Sayonara Itsuka: Goodbye, Someday (2010); encore screenings of Junichi Suzuki's documentary 442--Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (2010); the U.S. premiere of Takeshi Koike's anime Redline; while likewise hosting the San Francisco Film Society's Taiwan Film Days.

But Viz Cinema has granted equal time to honor classic Japanese cinema, most recently with four Yasujirō Ozu films profiling the performances of Setsuko Hara--Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1954), Late Autumn (1960) and Tokyo Twilight (1957)--and currently with four films by Kenji Mizoguchi: Women of the Night (1948), Miss Oyu (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1952) (running through early November).

Continuing its commitment to contemporary Japanese fare, Viz Cinema has been busy throughout the month of October with the San Francisco premiere of John H. Lee's Sayonara Itsuka: Goodbye, Someday (2010); encore screenings of Junichi Suzuki's documentary 442--Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (2010); the U.S. premiere of Takeshi Koike's anime Redline; while likewise hosting the San Francisco Film Society's Taiwan Film Days.

But Viz Cinema has granted equal time to honor classic Japanese cinema, most recently with four Yasujirō Ozu films profiling the performances of Setsuko Hara--Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1954), Late Autumn (1960) and Tokyo Twilight (1957)--and currently with four films by Kenji Mizoguchi: Women of the Night (1948), Miss Oyu (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1952) (running through early November).