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1746 Post (at Webster) San Francisco, CA 94115

415-525-8630

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Best Gift Shop for Japanese Wares
Award Winner 2011

Hours: Daily 8am-11pm

Price: $$$
Features: Wheelchair Accessible

Parking: Garage, Street

Description

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Daily from May 25 until May 31

Law enforcement searches for the scene of a murder.
Hide Away

Daily from June 1 until June 7

A man with no name moves to Michigan and reflects on his own sorrow.

2011 | Best Gift Shop for Japanese Wares

New People will persuade you that you need a necklace with an ice cream sundae on it, a smiley-faced toothpick holder, and a round, puffy speaker to plug into your iPod and dangle out of your pocket -- all in the same shopping trip. The retail cornerstone of the 2-year old complex in Japantown that also features an anime movie theater has managed to put a stranglehold on cuteness for an area already dripping with kawaii. More »
2010 | Best New Shopping Experience

Where else can you get Japanese goth dresses, anime DVDs, and gorilla-shaped iPod speakers, all under the same roof New People offers all those items and more. Opened by VIZ Media founder Seiji Horibuchi, the three-story building houses the New People Store, VIZ Cinema, several cutting-edge boutiques, and the Superfrog Gallery. You can go from browsing the latest J-pop CDs to trying out a toothpick dispenser and putting your money in a Face Bank (think of a piggy bank, but with human nose... More »

Delayed Reaction

By Nick Pinkerton | Wed, May 02, 2012

The Day He Arrives, the prolific Hong Sang-soo's 12th film, begins with Sungjoon (Yu Jun-sang), a former film director now retired to a professorship at a provincial school, returning for a visit to Seoul, his former home. Failing to connect with ... More »
Work of Art, Act of Defiance

By : Karina Longworth | Wed, April 04, 2012

In 2010, internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home and sentenced to six years in prison for “[participating] in a gathering and carrying out propaganda against the system.” The sentence included a 20-year b... More »
Iraqi Filmmaker Visits San Francisco With Drama About a Hired Killer

By Jonathan Curiel | Tue, April 3, 2012

Qarantina is about a ruthless hit man in Baghdad who lives in the same house as a dysfunctional family. Violence is everywhere beyond their windows, symbolized by the overhead sounds of wartime helico... More »
"House of Pleasures": Carnal Film Embraces Contradictions

By Karina Longworth | Wed, March 28, 2012

Early on in Bertrand Bonello's haunting, darkly gorgeous new film, House of Pleasures, a client of the titular turn-of-the-20th-century brothel calls The War of the Worlds, the book he's just read,"idiotic but pure genius." That a "guilty" pleasur... More »
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By : Michael Leaverton | Wed, March 21, 2012

In America, outdoor scavenger hunts are just an excuse to start drinking early, but it’s different in Japan, which is no surprise. When it comes to pop trends, the Japanese double down. Tokyo’s Takao Kato turned the scavenger hunt inside out sever... More »
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San Francisco Film Society | New People Cinema

1746 Post (at Webster) San Francisco, CA 94115

415-525-8630

Description

Daily from May 25 until May 31

Daily from June 1 until June 7

2011 | Best Gift Shop for Japanese Wares

2010 | Best New Shopping Experience

By Nick Pinkerton | Wed, May 02, 2012

By : Karina Longworth | Wed, April 04, 2012

By Jonathan Curiel | Tue, April 3, 2012

By Karina Longworth | Wed, March 28, 2012

By : Michael Leaverton | Wed, March 21, 2012