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Whether he likes it or not, unassuming Keishi Nagatsuka is widely seen as being foremost among the coming generation in Japan's contemporary theater world.

Though the 38-year-old director, actor and playwright began to stand out after founding the Asagaya Spiders company in his early 20s, in 2008 he stepped right off the treadmill and took a year's break in London to study at the National Theatre.

Since then, Nagatsuka's talents have blossomed anew. As well as presenting several works that mix up times and places in surreal ways, he has been rethinking how to further engage his audiences and free — rather than direct — their imaginations. He often uses abstract and almost empty sets, and once created a South American stage for a kabuki play. With his "Macbeth" in Tokyo now, he's boldly opted for a theater-in-the-round — and that's besides this being the first of William Shakespeare's works he's ever tackled.

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This past few weeks I  volunteered for the Japan Society Film Department’s annual Japan Cuts film festival, which screens a host of new Japanese blockbusters, avant-garde films, and documentaries. This 10-day festival included 30+ films shown in the Japan Society’s mainstage space, as well as numerous shorts being screened on a loop in the Japan Society Murase room.

Admittedly, I only saw a small cross-section of films- to see them all would have required an insane time commitment and to be honest, for some reason, I get a horrible headache after staring at a screen for more than a few hours, so watching films back-to-back-to-back is hard for me.

That being said, the films I did see ran the gamut of stuff I really liked to things I just plain hated- but I guess that is the point of a film festival, right? So, here’s what I saw-

SATURDAY JULY 21 @10:15PM– NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (夜は短し歩けよ乙女) and DREAMLAND.

Dreamland was a short that preceded Night is Short, by experimental animator Mizue Mirai. There was a blurb before the short saying this was an ongoing project from the 1960s, but since Mizue was born in 1981, I’m not quite sure what that meant. Mizue is known for cell-based animation that, of late, hyper-focused on linear shap