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Ghost Diaries, Tatsujin The Master, Mijyoubutsu Hyakumonogatari ~AKB48 Ikai e...
Happy Weekend, again! This is the second of my trailer posts. Here’s the link for the first one. What else was released this weekend? Ghost Diaries ゴーストダイアリーズ 「Go-suto Daiari-zu」 Release Date:...
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To Sleep So as to Dream 夢みるように眠りたい (1986) Director: Kaizo Hayashi [Japan Cuts...
To Sleep So as to Dream 夢みるように眠りたい 「Yumemiru you ni nemuritai」 Release Date: May 18th, 1986 Duration: 84 mins. Director: Kaizo Hayashi Writer: Kaizo Hayashi (Script), Starring: Shiro Sano, Koji...
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A Preview of the Kanazawa Film Festival 2021 in Kanazawa’s 21st Century...
The Kanazawa Film Festival 2021 will take place this year from September 18th (Saturday) to the 20th (Monday) at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Theatre 21. There are different...
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My Life Mom Life, A Balance, Ghost in the Shell 4K Remaster, Eternally...
Happy Weekend! ©2021 YAMIKEN I hope you are well. This is the first of a two-part trailer post. I’m a bit slow at doing things but steadily knocking down targets. I finished my review of Double Layered...
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MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season1, Drunken Tokyo Dance Music, Dear Moon, Memories,...
Happy Weekend. I hope you are well. This is the second part of the trailer post. You can find the first part here. What else is released this weekend? MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season1 マスカレード・ナイト...
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An Interview with Kazuya Shiraishi, Director of “Last of the Wolves” [New...
All bets were off with Last of the Wolves. It was the highly anticipated sequel to The Blood of Wolves, a gangster epic that was a throwback to Kinji Fukasaku’s Battles Without Honor and Humanity...
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An Interview with Mayu Nakamura, Director of Among Four of Us [OAFF...
Mayu Nakamura’s film Among Four of Us may only last 20 minutes but it makes a deep impact. A conversation piece involving three friends reuniting during the COVID-19 pandemic, it focuses on their...
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First Gentleman, The Mars Canon, World’s End/Girl Friend, Chokolietta, A...
Happy weekend. I hope you are well. This is the first of a two-part trailer post. Image from CURE by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (one of my all-time favourite films!). What are some of the films that are released...
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fOUL, Intolerance, Yellow Dragon’s Village, Princess Principal: Crown Handler...
Happy Weekend. I hope you are well. This is the second in a two-part trailer post (you an find the first part here). This week, I published interviews with Kazuya Shiraishi (Last of the Wolves) and...
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Japanese Films at the London East Asian Film Festival 2021
The London East Asian Film Festival announced its programme last week and there are more Japanese films in the running than last year. The fest runs from October 21st to October 31st. Here are the...
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Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2021
This year’s London Film Festival runs from October 06th to the 17th and it is partially online, partially in-theatre. Viewers across the UK will be able to access a selection of films in some regional...
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Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2021
The Vancouver International Film Festival 2021 (VIFF) runs from October 01st to October 11th and there are five feature films which will be screened in cinemas. Here’s the round-up of Japanese films....
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Boku to Kanojo to Rally to, In the Wake, Biokids the Movie, SPITZ JAMBOREE...
Happy Weekend. I hope you are well. This is the first in a three-part trailer post. There are 19 Japanese films listed but two are ones getting further coverage from last week. What is released this...
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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021 (October 07 – 14)
The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021 (YIDFF) runs from October 07 to the 14 and it is an online event due to the coronavirus pandemic. A lot of planning has been put into keeping...
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Flirtatious Asterism, The Never-Ending Battle: New Coronavirus Infections and...
Happy Weekend! Tactics Ogre Art 2 I hope you are well. This is the second of three trailer posts (the first one can be found here) and it covers more live-action films. It’s a rainy Saturday where I am...
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Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, Lupin wa Ima mo Moeteiru ka?, Riku wa...
Happy Weekend Again! I hope you are well. This is part three of the trailer posts covering the 19 Japanese titles that were released into the wild. You can find part one here and part two here. This...
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Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions 二重のまち 交代地のうたを編む...
Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions 二重のまち 交代地のうたを編む 「Nijuu no machi koutai-chi no uta o amu」 Release Date: February 27th, 2021 Duration: 79 mins. Director: Haruka Komori,...
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Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021: Online from October 7–14
The 2021 edition of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival kicks off in an hour’s time and it is online. You can watch the opening ceremony wherever you are in the world via the YouTube...
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Onoda – 10,000 Nights In The Jungle, Child of Kamiari Month, The Laws of the...
Happy Weekend. I hope you are well. This is a two-part trailer post because there are a lot of films going out. I’ll keep this brief since I am providing coverage of the Yamagata International...
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Saikyou Koroshiya Densetsu Kunioka Kanzenhan, How We Work How We Live,...
Happy Weekend, AGAIN! I hope you are well. This is the second trailer post of the week (first one here). Prisoners of the Ghostland is also released in Japan. Since it’s Halloween season, I have been...
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