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An Interview with Daisuke Miyazaki, director of “TOURISM”, at the Osaka Asian...
Daisuke Miyazaki was born in 1980 in Yokohama, Kanagawa. A passion for analysing films turned into a career when he started making them while studying at Waseda University. In 2004, he participated in...
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Punk Samurai Slash Down, The Name, Modern Love, The Trial, The Negotiator:...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope everyone is feeling great! I’ve had a good week watching some fantastic films and enjoying the good weather the UK is experiencing. I also got a lot festival press work...
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Passage of Life 僕の帰る場所 Dir: Akio Fujimoto (2017) Osaka Asian Film Festival...
Passage of Life 僕の帰る場所 「Boku no kaerubasho」 Running Time: 100 mins. Release Date: November 25th, 2017 Director: Akio Fujimoto Writer: Akio Fujimoto (Screenplay) Starring: Kaung Myat Thu, Khin Myat...
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Japanese Films at the Fantasia International Film Festival (July 12th –...
The Fantasia International Film Festival starts in Montreal next week on July 12th and runs until August 02nd. The selection of Japanese films is simply stunning with titles from Miki Satoshi, Takashi...
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Room Laundering, The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine, Rainbow Days, 36.8°C...
Happy weekend, you lovely people! I hope you are well! I’ve had a busy week packed full of fun things. Sunday started with VCinema posting my review of The Blood of Wolves and then I posted a review...
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Japanese Films at the Asian Film Festival Dallas 2018 (July 19 – 26)
The Asian Film Festival Dallas runs from July 19th to 26th and is continuing its mission of bringing movies from Asian and Asian-American filmmakers living around the world to audiences in Dallas,...
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An Interview with Rina Tanaka, Ryo Kato, Fixy Lee, Takehito Sato, and Kaori...
At the Osaka Asian Film Festival, Filled with Steam (2017) was one of the films screened at the Housen section, a place reserved for films that received support from the Housen Cultural Foundation....
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Ginmaku-ban shonan no kaze ichigoichie, Pokemon the Movie: Everyone’s Story,...
Happy weekend, people! I hope everybody is doing well! Think about the people who live in the western part of Japan who have lost a lot due to the heavy rain and consider donating to relief efforts if...
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Third Window Films Release “SUFFERING OF NINKO” on July 23rd on DUAL FORMAT...
Third Window Films are having a cracking year releasing great films what with three Sono titles The Whispering Star/The Sion Sono and Antiporno and the Osamu Tezuka anime. Here’s a great title which I...
View ArticleThe Path Leading to Love アイニ向カッテ Dir: Kohei Takayama (2017) Osaka Asian Film...
The Path Leading to Love アイニ向カッテ 「Ai ni Mukatte」 Running Time: 76 mins. Release Date: 2018 Director: Kohei Takayama Writer: Kohei Takayama (Screenplay), Starring: Ippei Tanaka, Yumi Mukai, Mika Dehara,...
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An Interview with Kohei Takayama, director of “The Path Leading to Love” at...
Kohei Takayama was born in Chiba prefecture in 1987. After graduating from Waseda University, he began making indie films such as Ni naru (2015) and Kudaranai kudaranai kono sekai (2016). He was at...
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Bleach, Mirai of the Future, Still Life of Memories, Ame no kubi furizaka,...
Happy weekend, people! I hope everyone is feeling fine. I’ve just finished a six-day working week at my regular job and I’m in the middle of film festival work for Kotatsu. I finished crafting PR stuff...
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Japan Foundation’s “Pre-Summer Explorers!” Free Film Screenings in August
The Japan Foundation are running their Summer Explorers full of anime and live-action films that are set during the summer. This is a free event which you have to register for. I repeat, this is a...
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Japan Foundation’s Free Film Screenings: “Summer Explorers!”
The Japan Foundation in London are putting on a series of free film screenings the first of which I posted about yesterday – Pre-Summer Explorers! – and this is the second series of screenings which...
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A Preview of BATSU FILM FESTIVAL 2018 (AUGUST 03-05)
Here’s a brand new festival for North America that is totally dedicated to Japanese films. It’s called the BATSU FILM FESTIVAL and it runs from August 03rd to 05th at the Alamo Drafthouse in Denver...
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Code Blue, Imagination Game, Katachi no Nai Hone, 1999 – Nen no natsu yasumi,...
Happy weekend, dear reader! I hope you are all well. It has been a busy week for J-film fans in North America because the while the New York Asian Film Festival has finished, Japan Cuts is still in...
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Japanese Film Festival Los Angeles (August 18 – 19)
Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles will run on August 18 to 19 at the Japanese American National Museum and then at Orange County’s Newport Beach Higashi Honganji. It’s an event that has been running...
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Donation Theater: Help Western Japan Recover From the Flooding Through Film
Japan has a rainy season and typhoon season every year but this year’s has been pretty bad with record rainfall in July leading to widespread flooding and landslides in various areas of western Japan...
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Sensei Kunshu, Ao-Natsu Kimi ni Koi Shita 30-nichi, My Hero Academia THE...
Happy weekend, people! I hope you are all well. I’ve started doing regular PR work for a festival which is on the horizon and I’m making my way through as many films as I can and I also re-watched some...
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Japanese Films at the Venice International Film Festival 2018
The Venice International Film Festival is here for its 75th edition and it will run from August 29th to September 08th. There are about five apanese films at this year’s festival (so far), the...
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