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A Japanese Boy Who Draws ある日本の絵描き少年 Dir: Masayoshi Kawajiri (2018) [Japan...
A Japanese Boy Who Draws ある日本の絵描き少年 「Aru Nihon no ekaki shonen」 Release Date: March 02nd, 2019 Duration: 20 mins. Director: Masayoshi Kawajiri Writer: Masayoshi Kawajiri (Screenplay), Starring:...
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Nara International Film Festival Pre-event 2019 (September 14-16)
The organisers behind the Nara International Film Festival (NIFF) have lined up a special event this weekend (September 14-16), or should that be, Pre-Event, as they host three days of films with...
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They Say Nothing Stays the Same, Hit Me Anyone One More Time, No Longer...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are well. I’m trying to get my genki back. I’m posting this on a Friday because I’ve got something else reserved for tomorrow. Anyway, this week I posted a review...
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The Best of Youth La meglio gioventù Dir: Mario Tullio Giodarna (2003) [Italy]
The Best of Youth La meglio gioventù Release Date: June 22nd, 2003 Duration: 366 mins. Director: Marco Tullio Giordana Writer: Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli (Screenplay), Starring: Luigi Lo...
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Samurai Marathon サムライマラソン Dir: Bernard Rose (2019) [New York Asian Film...
Samurai Marathon サムライマラソン 「Samurai Marason」 Duration: 104 mins. Release Date: February 22nd, 2019 Director: Bernard Rose Writer: Hiroshi Saito, Kikumi Yamagishi Bernard Rose (Screenplay), Akihiro...
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And Your Bird Can Sing きみの鳥はうたえる Dir: Sho Miyake (2018) [Japan Cuts 2019]
And Your Bird Can Sing きみの鳥はうたえる 「Kimi no tori wa utaeru」 Release Date: September 01st, 2018 Duration: 119 mins. Director: Sho Miyake Writer: Sho Miyake (Screenplay), Yasushi Sato (Novel) Starring:...
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Blind Witness, Little Nights Little Love, Love’s Stoppage Time, My Father the...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are well! I ended last week with a review of The Best of Youth and then proceeded to go back into my Japanese film reviews with Samurai Marathon and the Sho Miyake...
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Orphan’s Blues オーファンズ・ブルース Dir: Riho Kudo (2018) [Japan Cuts 2019]
Orphan’s Blues オーファンズ・ブルース 「O-fanzu Buru-su」 Release Date: May 31st, 2019 Duration: 89 mins. Director: Riho Kudo Writer: Riho Kudo (Screenplay), Starring: Yukino Murakami, Takuro Kamikawa, Nagiko...
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Japanese Films at the Busan International Film Festival 2019 (03rd-12th October)
This year’s Busan International Film Festival is the 24th in the series and it runs from October 03rd to the 12th. This is the first time that I have covered Busan but it has been on the cards for a...
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The Flowers of Evil, From Miyamoto To You, Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die...
Happy weekend, everyone! Chichi no Kekkon Film Image I hope you are all well! This week I published my review for Orphan’s Blues and also a look at the Japanese films at this year’s Busan International...
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Ad Astra Dir: James Gray (2019) (USA)
Ad Astra アド・アストラ「Ado Asutora」 Release Date: September 18th, 2020 Duration: 123 mins. Director: James Gray Writer: James Gray, Ethan Gross (Screenplay), Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth...
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Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival Workshop and Talks with Award-Winning...
Cardiff’s Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival and the Japan Foundation have teamed up to host award-winning stop-motion animator Takeshi Yashiro and his producer Satoshi Akutsu on a tour of the UK as...
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The Other Home, Mukou no Ie,Liar! Uncover the Truth, Listen to the Universe,...
Happy weekend! I hope you are all well! The Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival is on and I’m locked into doing that. It has been good getting back into anime and watching the films with the audience...
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Garo – Under the Moonbow, Blackfox, Words Can’t Go There, Miss Blue Lotus, Ao...
This is the second part of my trailer post for last weekend’s releases. A lot came out and I was busy with a film festival so I kept putting it off until now. What was released last weekend??? Garo –...
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A Preview of Japan Cuts Hollywood 2019
JAPAN CUTS Hollywood is a 3-day film festival organised in cooperation with JAPAN CUTS in New York. There is a unique slate of titles different from the New York fest (except for Melancholic) and some...
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Itsuka no futari, The Truth, The Path Leading to Love, Her Blue Sky. Walking...
Welcome to the weekend, everyone! I hope you are all safe and well. It’s another weekend so that means more badly translated trailers. This week has been playing catch-up with reviews I am supposed to...
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Japanese Films at the London East Asian Film Festival 2019
The London East Asian Film Festival announced its programme last month and there will be a lot of films to see from October 24th to November 03rd and there is a great slate of films from Korea to Hong...
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Bullet Ballet バルットバレエ Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto (2000)
Bullet Ballet バルットバレエ 「Barutto Baree」 Release Date: March 11th, 2000 Duration: 87 mins. Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Writer: Shinya Tsukamoto Starring:...
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The Promised Land, Show Me the Way to the Station, Special Actors, If Hope...
Happy weekend, everyone! We made it to another one. But we have to do more than just survive… I’ve been really fatigued this week due to sleeping patterns which see me wake up at 03:00 in the morning...
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A Preview of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TokyoIFF) (October 28th-November 05th) is back with a programme that is set to appeal to as broad an audience as ever as it casts its net wide to take in a slew...
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