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The First Wave and the Reboot of Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno Films at Nippon...
The Nippon Connection Film Festival takes place from May 23 to 28, 2017 and it will be held in Frankfurt am Main. The organisers released details of the 100+ short and feature length films that will...
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Yoji Yamada’s “A Class to Remember” Screening at the Japanese Embassy in...
The Japanese embassy in London regularly screens films that are hard to find in the West and they are an eclectic bunch. The latest one programmed is one from the venerable director Yoji Yamada. It’s...
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Documentaries at the Nippon Connection Film Festival 2017
The Nippon Connection Film Festival takes place from May 23 to 28, 2017 and it will be held in Frankfurt am Main. The organisers released details of the 100+ short and feature length films that will...
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“Dogs Without Names” Documentary Film Screening and Q&A at London’s Phoenix...
The Japan Society in London has organised another screening in London and this one looks like it will be a moving subject. One of the films in my list of titles covering the Great East Japan Earthquake...
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Short Films at the Nippon Connection Film Festival 2017
The Nippon Connection Film Festival takes place from May 23 to 28, 2017 and it will be held in Frankfurt am Main. The organisers released details of the 100+ short and feature length films that will...
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Feature-Length Fiction Films at Nippon Connection Film Festival 2017
The Nippon Connection Film Festival takes place from May 23 to 28, 2017 and it will be held in Frankfurt am Main. The organisers released details of the 100+ short and feature length films that will...
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East Winds Film Festival 2017 – Catch-Up Post
The East Winds Film Festival is back after a hiatus of a couple of years (the last one was in 2014). Words about the films was released before the event but I’m a bit late in covering it. It started...
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Clouded Vision: The Films of Yo Ota on the Big Screen in New York
Yo Ota is a film maker from Tokyo who has produced a body of work consisting of short films that mix together the realism found in landscape films with some manipulation of time and movement and...
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Korean Film Nights Continues with “The Journal of Musan” on June 01st
The Korean Cultural Centre is continuing its season of films concerned with migration in South Korea. These titles have been programmed by students from the Film Studies Programming and Curation MA...
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The Korean Cultural Centre Will Screen the film “Seoul Searching” on June 08th
Seoul Searching (2015) is a coming-of-age drama that melds the tropes of a John Hughes teen comedy like The Breakfast Club with the true story about summer camps that took place in 1980s in Korea where...
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Korean Film Nights Closes with “He’s On Duty” on June 15th
The Korean Cultural Centre will bring its season of films concerned with migration in South Korea to a close in just over a week’s time with the light-hearted comedy, He’s On Duty. These titles have...
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Korean Drama “The King” Gets its UK Premiere at the Picturehouse Central...
The London Korean Film Festival has revealed the fourth of its teaser screenings in the form of The King, a film billed as the Korean Wolf of Wall Street. Audiences will be able to enjoy seeing the...
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Sogo Ishii’s “The Crazy Family” will be screened at the Barbican on June 11th
The Barbican are running an exhibition about Japanese homes and domestic architecture called The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945. It began on March 23rd and lasts until June 25th. As...
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Shinji Somai’s “Moving” will be Screened at the Japanese Embassy in London on...
The Japanese Embassy in London has a 16mm print of Shinji Somai’s 1993 film Ohikkoshi and there will be a free screening of it on June 23rd. This film is a touching story about a girl dealing with the...
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The Studio Ghibli Film “Whisper of the Heart” will be screened at the...
The Barbican is running an exhibition about Japanese homes and domestic architecture called The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945. It began on March 23rd and lasts until June 25th. There...
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Japanese Films at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 Review Round-Up: Takashi...
It has been a while since I last did a review round-up of any festival but fellow cinephile and Twitter-user FelixAguirre regularly collects links to reviews and alerts them to me and with such a...
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The Studio Ghibli Film “Whisper of the Heart” will be screened at the...
The Barbican is running an exhibition about Japanese homes and domestic architecture called The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945. It began on March 23rd and lasts until June 25th. There...
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Japanese Films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017
The 2017 edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival takes place from June 21st until July 02nd and the films have been announced. There is a mix of titles that give a good indication of what...
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Yasujiro Ozu’s Film “I Was Born, But…” will be screened with live piano and...
The Barbican’s exhibition about Japanese homes and domestic architecture, The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945, began on March 23rd and it finishes on June 25th with this special film...
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Japanese Films at the New York Asian Film Festival 2017
The 16th New York Asian Film Festival takes places from June 30th until July 16th. There are almost 60 films on the programme with many highlights from Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, China, South Korea and...
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