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Sadako 3D: Zokuhen, The End of Summer, Moment Girl, R-18 Literary Prize...
The week has been busy in movie terms. I watched four films, three of them were on DVD and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (one more tonight) and I had a trip to the cinema to see Elysium which was a...
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Scotland Loves Animation 2013 Festival Line-Up
On the day that Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement from the production of feature-length films has been announced, I report about this year’s Scotland Loves Animation takes place in Glasgow (October...
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Hayao Miyazaki Retires From Directing Feature Films
Today was supposed to be the start of a Kiyoshi Kurosawa season but news that Hayao Miyazaki is retiring from making feature films broke yesterday and I have to post about it. According to an NHK...
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Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2013
The 57th BFI London Film Festival is running from Wednesday 09th October to Sunday 20th October, a mere week after the end of the Raindance Film Festival. The London Film Festival programme was...
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock, 009-1: The End of the Beginning, Backwater,...
This week was all about festivals! It began with a post about the Scotland Loves Animation Festival 2013 and was followed by a post about the announcement that Hayao Miyazaki will be retiring from...
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Japanese Films at the Raindance Film Festival 2013
The films for the Raindance Film Festival (September 25th – October 06th ) have been announced and there are a lot of Japanese titles on offer in the Way Out East strand. There are some I have...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa Season and Biography
Regular readers will know that I keep ranting about four directors: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sion Sono, Takashi Miike. and Shinya Tsukamoto. The reason these four men are always mentioned is that they have...
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Serpent’s Path
I’m a big Kiyoshi Kurosawa fan but when Third Window Films announced they had two Japanese films made by Kurosawa in the 90’s I had no idea what they could be and I had little to guide me but posters...
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Unforgiven, Taka no Tsume GO Utsukushiki Eriēru Shōshū Purasu , ATARU The...
How have you lot been? All’s well? Plenty of films and anime to watch like me? A good week at work? Great weather? Perfect. Yet today is going to be even better because I have a lot of time set aside...
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Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2013
Canada has two awesome film festivals at this time of year. The first is the Toronto International Film Festival and the second is the Vancouver International Film Festival. The line-up for Vancouver...
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Eyes of the Spider
I’m a big Kiyoshi Kurosawa fan but when Third Window Films announced they had two Japanese films made by Kurosawa in the 90’s I had no idea what they could be and I had little to guide me but posters...
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The Guard From Underground
The Guard From Underground Japanese Title: 地獄の警備員 Romaji: Jigoku no Keibin Release Date: 1992 Running Time: 97 mins. Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kunihiko Tomioka...
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BFI Event: Ring Screening and Talk
For anybody living in London and into Japanese films here’s something you may be interested in. When I was at the BFI London Film Festival I was subject to trailers for their Gothic season which has...
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Republic of Thieves Read-Along Week Two Answers
Ha, the second week of the Republic of Thieves Read-Along and the questions come from Over the Effing Rainbow! Week one got off to a great start with lots of interesting responses and the book is still...
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Samurai Flamenco First Impression
Samurai Flamenco Director: Takahiro Omori, Original Character Designer: Chinatsu Kurahara, Series Composition: Hideyuki Kurata, Character Designer: Yoshimitsu Yamashita, Art Director:...
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Japanese Film Trailers Part One: Judge, The Kiyosu Conference, Fu-Zoku...
This week was all about trying to get my anime first impressions underway… even though I have a dozen or more film reviews to do. I’ve pretty much started hacking away at the numbers and I’ll spend the...
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Japanese Film Trailers Part 2 The Tiger Mask, Patema Inverted, Tokyo...
This is the second part of my trailer post for this week. Normally I would publish one a week to capture the films getting shown in cinemas in Tokyo but there were too many to fit into one post – 25...
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Terracotta and Third Window Films Asian Film Releases for November
I’ve been a bit tardy with posting some of the latest releases from Terracotta and Third Window Films due to all of the festival coverage and reviews/anime so here’s a selection of their releases this...
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Republic of Thieves Read-Along Week Three Answers
It’s the third week of the Republic of Thieves Read-Along and we’re over half way through the book. Week one was all about getting to know the characters again while week two was all about revealing...
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Ku_On
Ku_On Japanese Title: クオン 久遠 Running Time: 78 mins. Seen at the Raindance Independent Film Festival Director: Takayuki Hatamura Writer: Takayuki Hatamura...
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