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Okiku and the World, Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room The Movie, Akina...
Happy Weekend You know the drill. This is the first of a two-part trailer post. More films will be posted tomorrow. What are the first batch of films released this weekend? Okiku and the World...
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Esper X Tantei-sha Sayonara no Sagashimono, YIELD Final Version, Daichiyo...
Happy Weekend This is the second part of the two-part trailer post for this week. The first part is here. Well, this week saw me swerve around in terms of films I wrote about as I was taken by the Jack...
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Let Him Rest in Peace 友よ、静かに瞑れ (1985) Director: Yoichi Sai
Let Him Rest in Peace 友よ、静かに瞑れ 「Tomoyo, Shizuka ni Tsumure」 Release Date: June 15th, 1985 Duration: 103 mins. Director: Yoichi Sai Writer: Shoichi Maruyama (Screenplay), Kenzo Kitakata (Original...
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Japanese and Korean Films at the Cannes Film Festival 2023
This year’s Cannes Film Festival will May 16-27 and the official line-up of films has been announced. This year sees a LOT of titles from East Asia. As with last year, Hollywood is going to be at the...
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Father of the Milky Way Road, Ginga Tetsudo no Chichi, PascaLs Shiawase no...
Happy Weekend Well, this week I started things off with a review of the Yoichi Sai 1985 noir Let Him Rest in Peace. Not necessarily the most exciting film but its old-school heroes and themes of...
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What Can You Do about It だってしょうがないじゃない (2019) Director: Yoshifumi Tsubota
What Can You Do about It だってしょうがないじゃない 「Datteshou ganai Janai」 Release Date: 2019 Duration: 120 mins. Director: Yoshifumi Tsubota Writer: N/A Starring: Makoto Ohara, Yoshifumi Tsubota, Machiko...
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Shiver 戦慄せしめよ (2022) Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Shiver 戦慄せしめよ 「Senritsu seshimeyo」 Release Date: January 29th, 2022 Duration: 89 mins. Director: Toshiaki Toyoda Writer: Toshiaki Toyoda Starring: Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Website IMDB Toshiaki Toyoda is...
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Adulthood Friends, Gekijouban Oshi ga Budoukan itte Kuretara Shinu,...
Happy Weekend This is the first of a two-part trailer post so the second part comes tomorrow. I’ve upped my film watching again and I’m writing reviews more consistently. I really want to cover another...
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Izure Anata ga Shiru Hanashi, Origin of Lies “Drawing Song / White Lie”,...
Happy Weekend This is the second part of the two-part trailer post. You can find the first part here. So, as stated, in that aforementioned post, I’m playing The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky on...
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Kidofuji (2023) Director: Atsuro Shimoyashiro
Kidofuji Release Date: 2023 Duration: 11 mins. Director: Atsuro Shimoyashiro Writer: Atsuro Shimoyashiro (Screenplay), Music: Atsuro Shimoyashiro Starring: GON, Kumiko Tsushimi, Shohei Matsuzaki,...
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An Interview with Atsuro Shimoyashiro about his film “KIDOFUJI”
The last time I met Atsuro Shimoyashiro was at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020 for an interview about his film The Modern Lovers, a bittersweet tale of love temporarily rekindled and the realisation of...
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Drive into Night 夜を走る (2022) Director: Dai Sako
Drive into Night 夜を走る 「Yoru o Hashiru」 Release Date: May 13th, 2022 Duration: 125 mins. Director: Dai Sako Writer: Dai Sako (Script), Starring: Tomomitsu Adachi, Reo Tamaoki, Nahana, Shohei Uno,...
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A Hard Day, Uchuu-jin no Aitsu, 「Amuse Presents SUPER HANDSOME LIVE 2022...
Happy Weekend This is the first part of a two-part trailer post! The Cannes Film Festival has kicked off and I placed on the Heroic Purgatory Twitter account a tweet thread of film coverage from the...
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Idolish7 the Movie Live 4Bit Beyond the Period, The River Breathes, Aru Hi...
Happy Weekend This is the second part of a two-part trailer post. The first part is here. This week I started with a review of the short film Kidofuji and an interview with its composer/writer/director...
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Detective vs Sleuths 神探大战 (2022) Director: Wai Ka-Fai
Detective vs Sleuths 神探大战 「San taam daai zin」 Release Date: July 21st, 2022 Duration: 96 mins. Director: Wai Ka-Fai Writer: Ryker Chan, Lu Jia, Li Jie (Screenplay), Starring: Sean Lau, Charlene...
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Police Story 3: Supercop (1992) Dir: Stanley Tong
Police Story 3: Supercop 警察故事３超級警察 「gíng chaat gu sih sāam: Chīu kāp gíng chaat」 Release Date: July 04th, 1992 Duration: 96 mins. Director: Stanley Tong Writer: Edward Tang, Ma Fibe, Yee Lee Wai...
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Hamon, Kishibe Rohan Louvre e Iku, Kowareru Koto Ikiru Koto, The Feast of...
Happy Weekend This is the first of a two-part trailer post. Second part tomorrow. Between getting a severe hankering to play Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin and Advance Wars (the original on GBA), I’ve...
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26-ji 13-bu, Spring in Between, Boku no Machi wa Ofuro ga Atsukute Maizokin...
Happy Weekend This is the second part of this week’s trailer post. The first part is here. The Cannes Film Festival is still in effect and it has been interesting collecting views on the films playing....
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A Little Girl’s Dream 夢は牛のお医者さん Director: Yoshiaki Tokita
A Little Girl’s Dream 夢は牛のお医者さん 「YUME WA USHI NO OISHASAN」 Running Time: 86 mins. Release Date: March 29th, 2014 Director: Yoshiaki Tokita Writer: N/A Starring: Tomomi Maruyama, Yui Yokoyama...
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Somebody’s Flowers 誰かの花 (2022) Director: Yusuke Okada
Somebody’s Flowers 誰かの花 「Dareka no Hana」 Release Date: January 29th, 2022 Duration: 115 mins. Director: Yusuke Okada Writer: Yusuke Okada (Script), Starring: Shinsuke Kato, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Choei...
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