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An Interview with Urara Matsubayashi and Mayu Akiyama on the Film “Kamata...
Mayu Akiyama (director) and Urara Matsubayashi (producer/lead actress) from the Osaka Asian Film Festival My final interview at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020 was with Mayu Akiyama and Urara...
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Japanese Films at the Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2020
The Skip City International D-Cinema Festival runs from Saturday, September 26th to Sunday, October 4th, 2020. Skip City was one of the first international competitive film festivals to exclusively...
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“Performing KAORU’s Funeral”– A Kickstarter Project by Noriko Yuasa
Noriko Yuasa has a new project on Kickstarter and it is for a feature-length film called Performing KAORU’s Funeral. A successful campaign will help finance this film which is based on an original...
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Kamata Prelude, Midnight Swan, My Sweet Grappa Remedies, Keep Your Hands off...
Happy weekend, everyone. We have made it through another week. I have been busy posting things such as a round up of the Japanese films at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the London Film...
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Creepy クリーピー 偽りの隣人 Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2016)
Creepy Creepy Film Poster クリーピー 偽りの隣人 「Kuri-pi- Itsuwari no Rinjin」 Running Time: 130 mins. Release Date: June 13th, 2016 Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Chihiro Ikeda...
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Kokutai 國體 (2019) Dir: Ryushi Lindsay
Kokutai 國體 「Kokutai」 Release Date: September 23rd, 2020 Duration: 10 mins. Director: Ryushi Lindsay Writer: N/A Starring: N/A Website IMDB Baseball has never looked so menacing. Kokutai is...
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Third Window Films Release World’s First Blu-ray Edition of Gentle Warped...
Third Window Films are going to issue the world’s first blu-ray release of the offbeat comedy The Taste of Tea on October 05th. Here are the details on the extras on the disc. Extra features: Extra...
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The Asadas!, Architecture Time and Kazuyo Sejima, Our Story, Gekijouban BEM...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all doing well. I will be recording an episode of the Heroic Purgatory podcast tonight so I spent this week watching pistol operas from John Woo – A Better...
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The Taste of Tea 茶の味 Dir: Katsuhito Ishii (2004)
The Taste of Tea 茶の味 「Cha no Aji」 Release Date: July 17th, 2004 Duration: 143 mins. Director: Katsuhito Ishii Writer: Katsuhito Ishii (Screenplay), Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Takahiro Sato, Maya...
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Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival 2020 (Online) – Free Films and Workshops...
I wrote two news posts on Anime UK News covering the Kotatsu Festival and have decided to merge them here. The Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival 2020 is a free two-day event (Oct 24-25) where a whole...
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An Interview with Ryushi Linday, director of Idol (2020) and Kokutai (2019)
Ryushi Lindsay (website) is an Anglo-Japanese filmmaker working in both Japan and the UK. He currently has two very different films on the festival circuit, the experimental documentary Kokutai (2019)...
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Japanese Films at the Busan International Film Festival 2020 (21st-30th October)
The full programme for the 2020 edition of the Busan International Film Festival was announced earlier this month as was the format of the festival. This year’s edition is smaller than previous years...
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The Real Thing, Mechanical Telepathy, Under the Stars, Tokyo Telepath 2020,...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all well. I started the week with a review of the gentle family comedy The Taste of Tea (2004) and followed that with a preview of the free films and events at...
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OP PICTURES+FEST 2020 Films (October 16th – 29th)
OP PICTURES + Fes 2020 OP Pictures is back for another year and it comes in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, a time when intimacy is to be shunned lest the virus get you. These films were mostly...
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Japanese Films at the Raindance Film Festival 2020
The 2020 edition of the Raindance Film Festival takes place online from October 20th to November 07th with the UK being able to enjoy all of the entire programme while people in other parts of the...
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Wife of a Spy, Mio’s Cookbook, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie:...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all doing fine! This week I posted about the Japanese films at the Raindance Film Festival and the OP Pictures + Fest going on throughout this month. I will be...
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Japanese Films at Tokyo FILMeX 2020 (October 30th to November 05th)
Tokyo FILMeX 2020 runs from October 30th to November 05th. It’s the place to see arthouse films but, due to Covid-19, organisers have decided to shorten the duration of the fest and have it run...
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One Night ひとよ Dir: Kazuya Shiraishi (2019)
One Night ひとよ 「Hitoyo」 Release Date: November 08th, 2019 Duration: 123 mins. Director: Kazuya Shiraishi Writer: Izumi Takahashi (Screenplay), Yuko Kuwabara (Original Stage Play) Starring: Takeru...
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Living in Your Sky, True Mothers, Your Eyes Tell, An Ant Strikes Back,...
Dreams Into Drawing Happy weekend, everyone!!! I hope you are all well. This post is truncated due to time constraints. As has been the case for at least the past four years, I’m working as press...
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GOZE, We Are Oh! & Yeah!!, Dancing in Her Dreams, Little Subculture Wars –...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all doing fine! The Kotatsu Festival is underway and there will be two free film streaming sessions later today. My review for Yuya Ishii’s All the Things We...
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