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Getting Any? みんな～やってるか！ (1995) Dir: Takeshi Kitano
Getting Any? みんな～やってるか！ 「Minna~ Yatteru ka」 Running Time: 108 mins. Release Date: February 11th, 1995 Director: Takeshi Kitano Writer: Takeshi Kitano (Screenplay), Starring: Dankan, Moeko Ezawa,...
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Close Knit 彼らが本気で編むときは、 (2017) Dir: Naoko Ogigami
Close Knit 彼らが本気で編むときは、 「Karera ga Honki de Amu toki wa」 Running Time: 127 mins. Director: Naoko Ogigami Writer: Naoko Ogigami (Screenplay), Starring: Rinka Kakihara, Toma Ikuta, Kenta Kiritani,...
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A Preview of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2017
The 30th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) runs from October 25th – November 03rd in Roppongi and it’s the best event to see films with English subtitles in Japan at this time of the year since...
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Yamato (California) 大和（カリフォルニア） (2017) Director: Daisuke Miyazaki Osaka...
Yamato California 大和（カリフォルニア） 「Yamato (Kariforunia)」 Running Time: 75 mins. Director: Daisuke Miyazaki Writer: Daisuke Miyazaki (Screenplay) Starring: Hanae Kan, Nina Endo, Reiko Kataoka, Mayumi...
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Japanese Films at the Five Flavours Film Festival
The 11th Five Flavours Film Festival takes place from November 15th to the 22nd in Poland and the programme was announced at the end of October. It’s packed with a great selection of films for people...
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Birds Without Names, My Teacher / Teacher! Is It Okay for Me to Love You?,...
Hello dear reader. I am bringing back my trailer weeklies as the film resurgence begins. Inspired by my stay in Japan, recent films I have watched, and seeing the works listed at the Tokyo...
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Snow Woman 雪女 (2017) Dir: Kiki Sugino
My yearly Halloween post is back! Last year, when I was in Tokyo, I reviewed Hideo Nakata’s mid-90s chiller, Don’t Look Up! (soon to be released in the US with a sparkly update thanks to Tidepoint...
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Joy of Man’s Desiring 人の望みの喜びよ Dir: Masakazu Sugita (2014)
Joy of Man’s Desiring 人の望みの喜びよ 「Hitono Nozomino Yorokobiyo」 Running Time: 85 mins. Director: Masakazu Sugita Writer: Masakazu Sugita (Screenplay), Starring: Ayane Omori, Riku Ohishi, Naoko...
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Special Guests at the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2018
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme launches tomorrow and the organisers have announced the special guests attending this year and they are big-hitters. The first guest to be announced was...
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“Anarchist from Colony” to Open Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018
The Osaka Asian Film Festival is back for its 13th year and a wide variety of films from across Asia will be shown in a programme that includes a Competition, Special Screenings, Special Programs, an...
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Miko Girl, The Scythian Lamb, The Wolves of the East, Blank 13, Namae no nai...
Happy weekend, people! I’m currently in London and about to watch some films at the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme run at the ICA with a friend. I’m looking forward to seeing some great...
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“Love and Other Cults” Plays at Derby QUAD and Deptford Cinemas before...
Love and Other Cults is one of the latest in films produced Third Window Films and it is about to hit cinemas and homes in the UK very soon. This is the latest film from Eiji Uchida, director of...
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Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2018
The 68th Berlin International Film Festival, running from February 15th to the 25th, has a pretty good line-up of films but I’m super interested in the Japanese contingent. Thanks to the great media...
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Akihiro Toda’s “THE NAME (名前)” to Close Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018
The team behind the Osaka Asian Film Festival has given a glimpse of the entire programme of films that will play at this year’s edition and full details of the film which will close this year’s...
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Red Comet Club, Fumiko’s Feet, Kenen, Sea Opening, Spiritual Bolsheviki,...
Happy weekend! I hope everyone is well! This is going to be a super fast post light on details because I have been pushed for time this weekend! I completed editing a game’s story and have been busy at...
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Japanese Films at the Glasgow International Film Festival 2018
The Glasgow Film Festival (February 21st – March 04th) will launch at the end of this month and it kicks off with Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, a stop-motion animation set in a dystopian Japan and...
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Room For Let 貸間あり Dir: Yuzo Kawashima (1959)
Room For Let 貸間あり 「Kashima Ari」 Running Time: 112 mins. Release Date: June 02nd, 1959 Director: Yuzo Kawashima Writer: Giichi Fujimoto, Yuzo Kawashima (Screenplay), Masuji Ibuse (Original Novel),...
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Our Blue Moment, River’s Edge, Cherry Boys, Sunny / 32, Kamen Rider Para-DX...
Happy weekend, people! I hope you are all well. I’m still spending a lot of my free time writing about lots of different things but I had more time to do the trailer post this week which is ironic...
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Destruction Babies ディストラクション・ベイビーズ Dir: Tetsuya Mariko (2016)
Destruction Babies destruction-babies-film-poster ディストラクション・ベイビーズ 「Deisutorakushon Beibi-zu」 Running Time: 108 mins. Director: Tetsuya Mariko Writer: Tetsuya Mariko, Kohei Kiyasu (Screenplay),...
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Ren Osugi (September 27, 1951 – February 21, 2018)
Veteran actor Ren Osugi passed away earlier today from heart failure. He was only 66. It’s not often that I write about someone’s passing but I can’t let Osugi’s go by without a few words. I’ve grown...
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