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Shield of Straw, A Woman and War, Jellyfish Eyes, Library Wars, Monster and...
This week started with a look at the Japanese films playing at the Cannes Film Festival 2013. There are two films from two great directors – Miike and Koreeda – and the trailer for Miike’s film gets me...
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Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Teaser Trailer Sion Sono’s Next Film Release
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Japanese Title: 地獄 で なぜ 悪い Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Romaji: Jigoku de Naze Warui Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Release Date: September 28th, 2013 (Japan) Running...
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Liebester Blog Award Number Three
Lynn from Lynn’s Book Blog has passed on the Liebster Blog Award to me. Not one for ignoring praise (please give me praise, I have writer’s syndrome) and never one for ignoring Lynn (a blogger with...
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Devil Survivor 2 The Animation First Impression
Devil Survivor 2 The Animation Director: Seiji Kishi, Series Composition: Makoto Uezu, Music: Kotaro Nakagawa Voice Actors: Aya Uchida, Hiroshi Kamiya, Junichi Suwabe, Nobuhiko Okamoto,...
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Return to Iitate Village of Radiation, Innervision Trailers and the Japanese...
A new week a new dorama. With xxxHOLiC ending on a nice note I have picked up Shinya Shokudo, a recommendation from fellow Japanese dorama fan Tired Paul. So far it reminds me of Bartender. Expect a...
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Terracotta Festival’s “Asia In London” Short-Film Competition Information
The Terracotta Far East Film Festival is a month away and the line-up of films will be released tomorrow. I have been a bit tardy in posting this information on a short-film competition with the...
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Third Window Films Release For Loves Sake on DVD & Blu-Ray
Long time readers of the blog will remember that I attended last years BFI London Film Festival and saw For Love’s Sake. My review was positively overflowing with love, praise and fervour for the film...
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Saint Young Men, Home, Prefecture Government’s Hospitality Division, Phone...
What did I do this week? Well I’ll tell you whether you’re interested or not. A post for the release of For Love’s Sake and a Competition to go to Hong Kong thanks to the lovely folks at the Terracotta...
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Flowers of Evil / Aku no Hana First Impression
Aku no Hana Director: Hiroshi Nagahama, Assistant Director: Tetsuo Hirakawa, Original Creator: Shuuzou Oshimi, Series Composition: Aki Itami, Character Designer: Hidekazu Shimamura, Art Director:...
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The Complex, Maruyama, The Middle Schooler, Buddha Burning Human, Proof of...
Aku no Hana/Flowers of Evil was the only post this week but I wanted to let this one have the spotlight for a couple of days because I think the anime is very, very brilliant. I also had to revise for...
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5TH ANNUAL TERRACOTTA FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FULL LINE-UP
Tickets are now on sale for the fifth edition of the annual Terracotta Far East Film Festival. Due to Japanese language studies this post is about two weeks late but there is still time to order...
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Peach Festival Presents Tears, The Morning of the Funeral, Tokyo Halloween...
Only one post this week and that was for the Terracotta Far East Film Festival which I will be attending in just under two week’s time! I have watched plenty of anime including Attack on Titan (tears...
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Japanese Films at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 Critical Reactions and Awards
The 66th Cannes Film Festival came to an end today and the illustrious jury lead by Steven Spielberg had a tough time picking winners. Apart from Spielberg , the jury included interesting names like...
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BFI Nikkatsu Studio Season
This year marks the centenary of the founding of Nikkatsu Studio and because of this a lot of their old titles are getting restored and re-released. The BFI are joining in with the celebrations by...
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Hataraku Maou-Sama
Hataraku Maou-Sama¹ Director: Naoto Hosoda, Series Composition: Masahiro Yokotani Voice Actors: Ryota Ohsaka, Kanae Itō, Yōko Hikasa, Hiro Shimono, Yuuki Ono, Nao...
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The Garden of Words, Someone’s Gaze, Real, Kinoshita Keisuke Story, Dogs and...
The week started with the announcement of Hirokazu Koreeda’s win of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his latest film Like Father Like Son. I followed that with news on the BFI Nikkatsu...
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Red Data Girl
Red Data Girl Director: Toshiya Shinohara, Series Composition: Michiko Yokote Voice Actors: Saori Hayami, Kouki Uchiyama, Jun Fukuyama, Kaito Ishikawa, Rie Kugimiya, Akira Ishida, Kazuhiko...
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Director Atsushi Funahashi in London
Atsushi Funahashi is a name that is cropping up more and more on this blog. He first came to prominence with his 3.11 documentary Nuclear Nation which premiered at last year’s Berlin International Film...
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Terracotta Reveal Film Festival Guests!
Big news has just been released from the fine folks running the Terracotta Far East Film Festival in the form of the guests who will show up and who won the short film competition and the trip to Hong...
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Japanese Films at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2013
I did not cover the Edinburgh Film Festival last year and that turned out to be a major mistake because there were a lot of Japanese films shown. Well this year I’m ahead of the game and here is a...
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