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Sayonara, Girls. 少女は卒業しない (2022) Dir: Shun Nakagawa streaming on SAKKA
Sayonara, Girls. 少女は卒業しない 「Shoujo wa Sotsugyou Shinai」 Release Date: February 23rd, 2023 Available to Stream Here: SAKKA Duration: 120 mins. Director: Shun Nakagawa Writer: Shun Nakagawa...
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Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2024
This year’s London Film Festival will screen films from October 9 to 20. Tickets go on sale today at 10:00 for BFI Patrons, the 10th for BFI Members, and the 17th for the rest non-members. Here’s what...
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Shun Nakagawa on Sayonara, Girls. 少女は卒業しない, Adapting Ryo Asai, the Honesty of...
Sayonara, Girls., based on a series of short stories by Ryo Asai, is an understated and poignant drama of high school girls in Yamanashi prefecture saying goodbye to the loves, lives, and places they...
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My Sunshine, Tenchi yuyu Tota haiku no ippon michi, All About Suomi, Mrs....
Welcome to the first of three film trailer posts. The next one follows tomorrow and the final one for this week the day after. Japanese classes are going apace and I’m also doing festival work so I’m...
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Kono doga wa saisei dekimasen THE MOVIE, Wonderful Precure! The Movie!...
Welcome to the second trailer post of the week You can find the first trailer post here and the third trailer post comes tomorrow I’ve tried to sneak in some time with Shin Megami Tensei Persona 1 and...
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Lightning Over the Beyond 彼方の閃光 (2023) Director: Yoshihiro Hanno [Japan Film...
Lightning Over the Beyond 彼方の閃光 「Kanata no Senko」 Release Date: December 08th, 2023 Duration: 169 mins. Director: Yoshihiro Hanno Writer: Yoshihiro Hanno, Natsuo Shimao, Toru Okada (Screenplay),...
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Anata no omotori, TODOKU YO-NA, Japanese Film Trailers
Welcome to the third trailer post of the week You can find the first trailer post here and the second trailer post here. Since last week’s trailer posts, I have written a review of Sayonara, Girls. and...
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KALANCHOE カランコエの花 (2017) Dir: Shun Nakagawa
Kalanchoe カランコエの花 「Karankoe no Hana」 Running Time: 39 mins. Release Date: July 17th, 2017 Stream it at: SAKKA from September 20th Director: Shun Nakagawa Writer: Shun Nakagawa (Screenplay),...
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Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2024
The Vancouver International Film Festival 2024 runs from September 26th to October 06th and there are a mixture of Japanese feature and short films which will be screened as well as a Canadian film...
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Living in Two Worlds, Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM, The IDOLM@STER Shiny...
Welcome to the first of three trailer posts. The next two will be released over the next two days. I am back writing about films and studying Japanese. I was making good time with kanji about the...
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The Quintessential Quintuplets Specials 2, Given Umi e (movie 2024), Ano hito...
Welcome to the second of three trailer posts for this week. You can find the first post here while the last post of the week will be released tomorrow. I’ve got the last set of posts I want to do kinda...
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Mitsuki Sekai, Kohei Igarashi Retrospective: “Youthful Stories”, Two of Us,...
Welcome to the third of three trailer posts for this week. You can find part one here and part two here. Not much to report in terms of films watched. I did preview the Japanese films at this year’s...
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Japanese Films at the Busan International Film Festival 2024 (02nd-11th October)
The full programme for the 2024 edition of the Busan International Film Festival is out and there are a lot of Japanese films, some of which are mainstream titles that have hit multiplexes, some of...
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Super Happy Forever, Viva Nik – The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle, Cloud,...
Welcome to the first of three trailer posts. The next two follow over the coming days. Well, two games on my Steam wishlist – “Spirit Hunter II: Death Mark” and “The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story” –...
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Tokyo Drifter, Arrogance and Virtue, Previously Saved Version, BanG Dream!...
Welcome to the second trailer post of the week. You can find part one here and the third part will be posted tomorrow. I’ve been doing extra overtime in work to cover the cost of a plane ticket to...
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between, Tokubetsu senkou gekijouban kamisama no saikoro, Hona Mata Ashita,...
Welcome to the third trailer post of the week. The first part can be found here while the second part can be found here. I’m diving deeper into festival work and watching and writing about lots of...
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A Shinya Tsukamoto Release Double-Bill Courtesy of Third Window Films on...
Third Window Films has been a major factor in re-introducing the world to the works of Shinya Tsukamoto with releases of films like Tetsuo, Gemini, Kotoko, Bullet Ballet, A Snake of June, and Tokyo...
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HAPPYEND, Kitaro Tanjo: Gegege no Nazo Shinsei-ban, Fureru., ROF-MAO Cinema...
Welcome to the first of two trailer posts for this week. The next one follows tomorrow. I’ve been watching lots of films as prep for a festival and managed to keep up my Japanese, too. I won’t be doing...
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Cha-Cha, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Movie Edition Dai-San-Sho Rumu Hen,...
Welcome to the first of three trailer posts this week. The next two posts drop over the next two days. After a rocky couple of years, I restarted language learning and I’ve got to a point in my...
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Welcome to le Jardin, Vaundy LIVE in London, Muroi Shinji yaburezaru mono,...
Welcome to the second of three trailer posts. You can find part one here and the final part comes tomorrow. I’ve watched over 500 films this year. I tend to watch one a day, sometimes two. There have...
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