How A Former Senior Netflix Staffer Launched Japan’s Buzziest Cinema

How A Former Senior Netflix Staffer Launched Japan’s Buzziest Cinema

Director Lee Chang-dong’s beautiful genre mash-up, Possible Love; Dario Argento’s Giallo classic, Suspiria; and Sophy Romvari’s accomplished debut, Blue Heron, are some of the titles Japanese cinephiles can catch this week at Cineyama, one of the country’s buzziest new indie cinema venues. Located in Yamanashi Prefecture, just outside Tokyo, CineYama is a unique proposition in Japan’s indie film scene: The venue sits at the site of a former kin…