SHIN GODZILLA: ORTHOCHROMATIC to Screen at Japan Cuts Festival in NY on July 14 & 21
Japan Cuts 2024, the New York film festival hosted by the Japan Society and billed as “North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese film”, will be screening SHIN GODZILLA: ORTHOCHROMATIC as part of their festival twice, on both July 14 and 21.
The 07/14 screening is already sold out. You can buy tickets for the 07/21 showing here.
This will mark the international premiere of this special black-and-white version of the film.
The Japan Society details the film:
『シン・ゴジラ:オルソ』
Shin Gojira OrusoInternational Premiere. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s 21st century masterpiece is reborn with this stunning black-and-white version, released in Japan last year in the leadup to Godzilla’s 70th anniversary. A major critical and commercial success that earned seven Japan Academy Prize awards, Shin Godzilla (2016) pays tribute to the monster movie franchise’s origins while reinventing the iconic kaiju within the context of Japan’s political present. Proposed by Anno and overseen by Higuchi, ORTHOchromatic adds new dimensions to the film’s visual impact by rendering it in orthochromatic (“ortho” for short) black-and-white, a type of monochrome characterized by starker contrasts and more pronounced blacks. The results are awe-inspiring and presents Shin Godzilla as never seen before.
Dir. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, 2023, 119 min., DCP, black and white, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara.
Part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film 2024
July 10—21, 2024
JAPAN CUTS is the largest showcase of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America and an annual highlight of New York’s cinema scene.
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Source: Japan Society