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JAPAN CUTS  : Festival of New Japanese Film is an annual festival of modern Japanese cinema held at New York City 's Japan Society .. Japan Society. Japan Society ( New York ). New York City. New York City. Japanese. Japanese language. Japanese cinema. Cinema of Japan. Japan. Japan. The festival was first held in 2007 , growing out of the Japan Society 's popular bi-annual series , New Films from Japan .. Japan Society. Japan Society ( New York ). Japan. Japan. But where New Films from Japan was a series that showed , on average , ten films over the course of several months , the JAPAN CUTS festival has scheduled an average of 26 films , many of them premieres , over two weeks during the month of July .. Japan. Japan. Screenings are held in Japan Society 's 260-seat Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium .. Japan Society. Japan Society ( New York ). Japan. Japan