SHINTOHO MIND WARP Film Series Features 8 Premieres at Japan Society, Now thru 3/10
by Movies News Desk - Feb 27, 2013
Born of the fires of dissidence, pioneering Japanese film studio Shintoho was founded in 1947 by employees of the Tokyo-based Toho Company during a strike (Shintoho literally means 'New Toho'). The fledgling studio promptly established itself as one of the major film producers of the second golden age of Japanese cinema, specializing in low- to no-budget productions that have become absolute cult classics.
SHINTOHO MIND WARP Film Series to Feature 8 Premieres at Japan Society, 2/27-3/10
by Movies News Desk - Feb 4, 2013
Born of the fires of dissidence, pioneering Japanese film studio Shintoho was founded in 1947 by employees of the Tokyo-based Toho Company during a strike (Shintoho literally means "New Toho"). The fledgling studio promptly established itself as one of the major film producers of the second golden age of Japanese cinema, specializing in low- to no-budget productions that have become absolute cult classics.
Japan Society Screens Hardest Men in Town 3/9-3/19
by Movies News Desk - Mar 9, 2011
Years before Coppola's Godfather enthralled a nation and decades before "Sopranos" and "Boardwalk Empire" fed viewers' insatiable appetites for serial gangster melodrama, the yakuza (Japanese mafia) were mainstays of the Japanese film industry.
