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Japan Cuts 2015 opens in New York today and runs through July 19. We've got the trailer and we're collecting review of the new restorations of Eiichi Yamamoto's Belladonna of Sadness (1973) and Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth (1961); Shingo Wakagi's Asleep and Masaharu Take's 100 Yen Love, both starring Sakura Ando; Juichiro Yamasaki's Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn; Takahisa Zeze's Strayer's Chronicle; Yuya Ishii's The Vancouver Asahi; two collections of experimental films—and more. » - David Hudson...

Japan Cuts 2015 opens in New York today and runs through July 19. We've got the trailer and we're collecting review of the new restorations of Eiichi Yamamoto's Belladonna of Sadness (1973) and Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth (1961); Shingo Wakagi's Asleep and Masaharu Take's 100 Yen Love, both starring Sakura Ando; Juichiro Yamasaki's Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn; Takahisa Zeze's Strayer's Chronicle; Yuya Ishii's The Vancouver Asahi; two collections of experimental films—and more. » - David Hudson...

The Centerpiece Presentation of this year's Japan Cuts in New York will be the North American premieres of Shingo Wakagi's Asleep and Masaharu Take’s 100 Yen Love. The star of both films, Sakura Ando, is also this year’s honored recipient of the Cut Above Award for Outstanding Performance in Film. More goings on: Joel McCrea and Bruce Labruce in New York, Iranian cinema in Los Angeles, Gus Van Sant and Nicholas Ray in Portland, Allan Dwan in Melbourne, Polish cinema in London, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy throughout the UK, Agnieszka Holland in Berlin and Gregory J. Markopoulos in Basel. » - David Hudson...

The Centerpiece Presentation of this year's Japan Cuts in New York will be the North American premieres of Shingo Wakagi's Asleep and Masaharu Take’s 100 Yen Love. The star of both films, Sakura Ando, is also this year’s honored recipient of the Cut Above Award for Outstanding Performance in Film. More goings on: Joel McCrea and Bruce Labruce in New York, Iranian cinema in Los Angeles, Gus Van Sant and Nicholas Ray in Portland, Allan Dwan in Melbourne, Polish cinema in London, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy throughout the UK, Agnieszka Holland in Berlin and Gregory J. Markopoulos in Basel. » - David Hudson...

Asian films have dominated the Tiger Awards at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival in Holland, with a total of six movies up for nomination.

A total of 15 films from countries around the world are competing at the festival, which seeks to recognise a director's first or second films.

Among the contenders include Malaysian director nm1356503 autoLiew Seng Tat[/link]'s Flower In The Pocket, Chinese filmmaker Wemg Shou-ming's Fujian Blue, Japanese director nm1115569 autoShingo Wakagi[/link]'s Waltz In Starlight, Filipino director nm2336847 autoJohn Torres[/link]' Years When I Was a Child Outside, and Thai moviemaker nm0039775 autoAditya Assarat[/link]'s Wonderful Town.

Danish filmmaker nm1494245 autoOmar Shargawi[/link] (Go With Peace Jamil), Swedish nm0429634 autoJens Jonsson[/link] (The King of Ping Pong) and the Ukraine's Igor Podolchak + nm0440061 autoDean Karr[/link] (Las meninas) are also up for awards.

The festival will take place between 23 January and 3 Feburary, and winners will take home a prize of $22,000 (GBP11,000).

AMSTERDAM -- The International Film Festival Rotterdam on Wednesday unveiled the first films selected for its Tiger Award competition.

Japanese autobiographical production "Waltz in Starlight" by Shingo Wakagi, Pusan award-winner "Flower in the Pocket" by debutante Liew Seng from Malaysia and "Wonderful Town" by Aditva Assarat, a Thai production supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, are the first three titles chosen.

The full competition lineup for the Jan. 23-Feb. 3 festival will be unveiled in January by newly appointed director Rutger Wolfson, who replaced Sandra den Hamer in September.

The 37th edition already is taking shape, with U.S. experimental director Robert Breer and Russian director Scetlana Proskurina chosen as Filmmakers in Focus.

The festival also announced a number of world premieres. Brit director Stephen Dwoskin will present "The Sun and The Moon", a radical portrait of lust, pain and melancholy, while U.S. helmer Jeff Pickett presents his first feature, "The Skyjacker", a story about a man who hijacks a plane and falls in love with the stewardess.