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Category The Cut

Film worth talking about — not reviews in the traditional sense, more like a reckoning. Sato on the movies that documented something real, invented something new, or got more right about a specific time and place than anything else made that year.

The Cut

Kids (1995) documented a New York that no longer exists and that’s why it hurts

Illustrated Sato scene on a gritty New York street corner at dusk, skaters in the background, graffiti on the walls, late afternoon light fading

Harmony Korine was nineteen years old when he wrote Kids. He wrote it in three weeks. He told Larry Clark — the photographer who would direct it — “I’ve been waiting all my life to write this story.” He had…

Satoshi Takara
June 21, 2026