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An E-mail Interview with Oudai Kojima, Director of JOINT [Osaka Asian Film...
“No idea’s original, there’s nothing new under the sun. It’s never what you do, but how it’s done,” Nas from the album Best of Nas While every country around the world has its organised crime gangs,...
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Ito いとみち Director: Satoko Yokohama (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
Ito いとみち 「Itomichi」 Release Date: June 25th, 2021 Duration: 92 mins. Director: Satoko Yokohama Writer: Satoko Yokohama (Script), Osamu Koshigaya (Original Novel) Starring: Ren Komai, Etsushi...
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Kontora, Caution, Hazardous Wife: The Movie, You’re Not Normal, Either, Left...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope that you are all doing well. This week I covered a couple of Osaka Asian Film Festival posts with my interview with Oudai Kojima going live as well as my review of the...
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Toshiaki Toyoda’s Uprising 2021 in Chicago and A New Toyoda Film
“Only those rescued by movies will save movies” – Dir: Toshiaki Toyoda Source: https://www.kodo.or.jp/cms/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Profile_toshiaki-toyoda_credit_Keisuke-Nagoshi.jpg That’s a pretty...
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POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
POP! Release Date: N/A Duration: 86 mins. Director: Masashi Komura Writer: Masashi Komura (Script), Starring: Rina Ono, Yugo Mikawa, Katsuya Kobayashi, Masumi Nomura, Kenta Kiguchi, Website POP! is...
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Junk Head, The Blue Danube, Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, Girlz und Panzer das...
Happy weekend, everyone. I hope everyone is doing fine. This is the first of a two-part trailer post (six trailers today, six tomorrow) and it comes almost a week after recording a podcast about the...
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Green Jail, Ogawa Dorama Tokugawa ☆ Ieyasu, Searching for the Wolf, Zero-One...
Happy weekend, again. I hope that you are all well this Saturday! This is the second part of my weekend trailer post. You can find the first part here. What else was released this weekend? Green Jail...
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ZOKKI, Signal The Movie, Masamune Datenicle the Movie, The Girl Who Leapt...
Happy weekend, everyone. I took some time out this week to do other stuff, so there were no posts. I’ve skipped straight to the trailers. In viewing news, I’ve re-watched a number of Wong Kar-Wai films...
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Ura Aka – L’Aventure, Sower of Seeds 4 Tanemaku Tabibito Karen (Hasu) no...
Happy weekend, again! This is the follow-up post to yesterday’s. Since I posted it, I watched a couple of Wong Kar-Wai films and more episodes of the anime adaptation of Blade of the Immortal. What...
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An Email Interview with Hiroshi Gokan, Director of “Gotō-san” [Osaka Asian...
The Osaka Asian Film Festival has a number of sidebars and one of the more exciting is dedicated to works supported by the Housen Cultural Foundation, a funding body that provides support to students...
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Green Jail 緑の牢獄 Dir: Huang Yin-yu [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
Green Jail 緑の牢獄 「Midori no Rogoku」 Release Date: March 27th, 2021 Duration: 101 mins. Director: Huang Yin-yu Writer: N/A Starring: Yoshiko Hashima, Louis Leslie Kimura, Website IMDB Getting its...
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Over the Town 街の上で Dir: Rikiya Imaizumi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
Over the Town 街の上で 「Machi no Ue de」 Release Date: April 10th, 2021 Duration: 130 mins. Director: Rikiya Imaizumi Writer: Rikiya Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Ohashi (Script), Starring: Ryuya Wakaba, Moeka...
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Over the Town, My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy, A Garden of Camellias,...
Happy Weekend, everyone. I hopee you are doing good! While I was watching Wong Kar-Wai films last week, this week was all about Osaka Asian Film Festival titles and Peninsula, the sequel to Train to...
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An Interview with Satoko Yokohama, Director of “Ito” [Osaka Asian Film...
While getting a World Premiere in the Competition section of Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021 would be a sign of quality for director Satoko Yokohama and her film Ito, her work ended up taking two...
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A Rainbow-colored Trip にじいろトリップ Dir: Shinji Imaoka (2021) [Osaka Asian Film...
A Rainbow-colored Trip にじいろトリップ 「Niji-iro Torippu」 Release Date: 2021 Duration: 39 mins. Director: Shinji Imaoka Writer: Shinji Imaoka (Script), Starring: Yuune Sakurai, Yuri Ogino, Ryuju Kobayashi,...
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An Interview with Masashi Komura, Director of POP! [Osaka Asian Film Festival...
For the last few years, Osaka Asian Film Festival has been screening MOOSIC LAB films. These works are the result of the pairing together of up-and-coming directors, actors, actresses, and musical...
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Whiplash of the Dead, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (4K Remaster), Ride or...
Happy weekend, everyone! I hope you are all doing well. Since it’s the 25th anniversary of Resident Evil, I’ve been replaying the original Resident Evil 2 and completed the “Leon A” and “Claire B”...
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Young Birds 雛鳥 Dir: Eriko Izumi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]
Young Birds 雛鳥「Hinadori」 Release Date: N/A Duration: 80 mins. Director: Eriko Izumi Writer: Eriko Izumi (Script), Starring: Nanaho Otsuka, Jeremy Wang, Nanami Hidaka, Urara Matsubayahi, Saki Kato,...
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Make-Believers 夢見びと Dir: Kenjo McCurtain (2020)
Make-Believers 夢見びと 「Yumemibito」 Release Date: May 01st, 2020 Duration: 128 mins. Director: Kenjo McCurtain Writer: Kenjo McCurtain (Script), Starring: Takashi Kawaguchi, Yuki Morikawa, Saiki...
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final, Kankai no renzoku, Stay, BanG Dream! Episode of...
Happy Weekend, everyone! I hope you are all well. I’m still working on Osaka Asian Film Festival reviews and interviews and hope to get a few out next week. This week saw me review the earnest student...
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