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Spouse. Kaz Kuzui. Fran Rubel Kuzui is an American film director and producer. She received her master's degree from New York University and was a script supervisor for a decade, prior to her first film, 1988's Tokyo Pop, which she co-wrote and directed. The movie was shown at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim ...
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- New York University
- 1988–present
- Kaz Kuzui
Aug 2, 2023 · Fran Rubel Kuzui, director of \"Buffy The Vampire Slayer\" and \"Tokyo Pop\", talks about the 4K restoration of her debut feature, which was distributed by two bankrupt companies. She also shares her experience of working in Japan during the economic bubble and the New York independent film scene.
Aug 4, 2023 · Fran Rubel Kuzui's Tokyo Pop is a film about a blonde American singer and a Japanese rocker who fall in love in Tokyo's music scene. The film, restored by IndieCollect, celebrates the culture clash and the passion of rock 'n roll.
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Mar 1, 2024 · “If it wasn’t for Luke Perry, Buffy the Vampire Slayer would’ve never happened,” says Fran Rubel Kuzui, the director of the 1992 movie, speaking via Zoom from her home in Tokyo where she ...
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Jul 1, 1992 · Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui. With Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens, Rutger Hauer. Flighty teenage girl Buffy Summers learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.
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Fran Rubel Kuzui. Excerpts from this interview appeared in Millimeter Magazine, 1992. A graduate of NYU's Master's program and an associate producer and production manager at PBS, Fran Rubel was working as a script supervisor when she met her husband, Kaz Kuzui, on the set of a Japanese film called PROOF OF THE MAN, on which he was First A.D.
Aug 16, 2023 · Knowing how “Tokyo Pop” came about requires revisiting Kuzui’s ties to the 1980s American indie film scene. Fran and husband Kaz Kuzui turned their bringing of the first hip-hop movie “Wild Style” and classic Talking Heads concert film “Stop Making Sense” into a company distributing American films in Japan.