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Being Natural 天然☆生活 Dir: Tadashi Nagayama (2018)
Being Natural 天然☆生活 「Tennen Seikatsu」 Release Date: March 23rd, 2019 Duration: 96 mins. Director: Tadashi Nagayama Writer: Tadashi Nagayama, Yuriko Suzuki (Screenplay), Starring: Yota Kawase, Kanji...
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Summer Night Sky Autumn Sunset Winter Morning and Spring Breeze, Legend of...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all well. I feel I’ve been searching for something deeper than the ocean and I may have found it now I have to summon the courage to seize it. I wrote a preview...
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New Directions in Japanese Cinema (Japan, 2019) [JAPAN CUTS / OSAKA ASIAN...
New Directions in Japanese Cinema (ndjc) is a programme which has been in operation since 2007 with the express purpose of cultivating talented young filmmakers through putting them together with...
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Fate/stay night Heaven’s Feel I. Presage Flower (2017) Dir: Tomonori Sudo...
The traditional Halloween movie review is back and I wanted to try something different with an action anime I had seen at the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival earlier this month. Fate/stay night...
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No Smoking, After the Matinee, Black School Rules, Family of Strangers, The...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all well. I’ve just completed a 12-day work week so I’ve got two days to relax. Because it is Halloween, I watched a bunch of 80s horror films such as Demons 2...
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Birthday Wonderland バースデー・ワンダーランド Dir: Keiichi Hara (2019) [Kotatsu Japanese...
Birthday Wonderland バースデー・ワンダーランド 「Ba-sude- Wanda-rando」 Release Date: April 26th, 2019 Duration: 115 mins. Director: Keiichi Hara Writer: Miho Maruo (Screenplay), Sachiko Kashiwaba (Original...
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Award Winners the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019
The Tokyo International Film Festival (TokyoIFF) finished yesterday with an award ceremony (results) that celebrated various strands programme including Japanese movies (see this preview). Awards were...
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Yuho no ato, Dumping Ground, Little Miss Period, One Night, Nunchaku and...
Happy weekend, people! I hope you are all well! I watched a bunch of more horror films this week and worked harder on my kanji. Slightly less overtime at work. I’m about to spin up for a few outside...
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Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 交響詩篇エウレカセブン ハイエボリューション, Dirs: Tomoki Kyoda,...
Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 交響詩篇エウレカセブン ハイエボリューション 「Kokyo shihen Eureka sebun Hai eboryu-shon 1」 Release Date: September 16th, 2017 Duration: 109 mins. Chief Director: Tomoki Kyoda Director:...
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Penguin Highway ペンギン・ハイウェイ Dir: Hiroyasu Ishida [Kotatsu Japanese Animation...
Penguin Highway ペンギン・ハイウェイ 「Pengin Haiuei」 Release Date: August 18th, 2017 Running Time: 119 mins. Director: Hiroyasu Ishida Writer: Makoto Ueda (Screenplay), Tomihiko Morimi (Original Script)...
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i -Documentary of the Journalist-, He Won’t Kill She Won’t Die, Wings Over...
Happy Weekend, everyone! Time to relax unless you have a weekend job. Only one film watched and that was the Italian zombie movie Burial Grounds which was not that great. Plenty of Japanese practise...
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Japanese Animation at the London International Animation Festival 2019
This year’s London International Animation Festival (LIAF 19) will be at the Barbican from Friday, November 29th to Sunday, December 08th. The organisers have combed through 2,600 entries and whittled...
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A Silent Voice 声の形 Dir: Naoko Yamada (2016) [Kotatsu Japanese Animation...
A Silent Voice 声の形 「Koe no Katachi」 Release Date: September 17th, 2016 (Japan) Duration: 129 mins. Director: Naoko Yamada Writer: Reiko Yoshida (Screenplay), Yoshitoki Ooima (Original Manga)...
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Niji Iro no Asa ga Kuru Made, The 47 Ronin in Debt, Rise of the Machine...
Happy weekend, everyone. I hope you are all well. It’s raining in my neck of the woods and I think I am coming down with a cold, this just before I take a teaching course to refresh my English language...
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If Cats Disappeared From the World 世界から猫が消えたなら Dir: Akira Nagai (2016)
If Cats Disappeared From the World If Cats Disappeared From the World Film Poster 世界から猫が消えたなら 「Sekai kara Neko ga Kieta nara」 Release Date: May 14th, 2016 Duration: 118 mins. Director: Akira Nagai...
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When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to Be Dead 家に帰ると妻が必ず死んだふりをしていま Dir:...
When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to Be Dead. 家に帰ると妻が必ず死んだふりをしています。 「Ie ni Kaeru to Tsuma ga Kanarazu Shinda Furi wo Shite Imasu」 Release Date: June 08th, 2018 Duration: 115 mins. Director:...
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Human Lost, Love and Murder of Sheep and Wolf , The Sower, Manriki, Out Zone,...
Happy weekend! I hope everyone is well. This post has been delayed because I’ve been busier than normal this week doing courses on top of my regular job and it’s been fun doing something outside of...
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POETIC VOICES: A Trip Through the Taiwanese Avant-garde of the 1960s
Presented as part the 2019 Aperture: Asia and Pacific Film Festival, “POETIC VOICES: A Trip Through the Taiwanese Avant-garde of the 1960s” is a collection of four short films that were recently...
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Bulbul Can Sing Dir: Rima Das (India, 2018)
Bulbul Can Sing Release Date: 2018 Duration: 95 mins. Director: Rima Das Writer: Rima Das (Screenplay), Starring: Arnali Das, Manoranjoan Das, Manabendra Das, Bonita Thakuriya, Pakija Begam IMDB...
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I Was A Secret Bitch, Magical Boy Wild Virgin, Ghost Master, The Initiation,...
Happy weekend, everyone! It’s December and if you’re reading this, you’ve almost made it to the end of another year. This week I published reviews for POETIC VOICES A Trip Through the Taiwanese...
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