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Tiger and Bunny: The Rising, Yukihiko Nishino’s Love and Adventure, Tears of...
There are enough film released this week to warrant a double-trailer post. Rain has poured forth from the heavens and a fierce wind gusts about outside so the poor weather is a great excuse to stay...
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Kokkuri-san Gekijoban Shin Toshi Densetsu, Earth Defense Widow, Basujack,...
I started this week by returning home from London where I attended the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme. Out of the six films I saw, my top three were Shindo, Parade and Otaku in Love. The best...
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Japanese Films at the Berlin Film Festival 2014
The 2014 Berlin Film Festival is underway and there are lots and lots of films. Enough from me, here’s the line-up. New Features Forma Japanese: 小さい おうち Romaji: Chiisai Ouchi Running...
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All is Lost
All is Lost Running Time: 106 mins. Release Date: February o8th, 2014 Director: J.C. Chandor Writer: J.C. Chandor (Screenplay), Starring: Robert Redford (Our Man) All is Lost is the second feature...
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, The Tale of Iya, Fankī Katō My Vu~oisu...
The first trailer post of the week features all sorts of different films but the most impressive is The Tale of Iya. Watch the trailer and tell me you aren’t impressed by it. I’m so impressed that I’m...
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Hello! Junichi, Ryusei, Murakami Kazuo Dokyumento `SWITCH’ Idenshi ga...
I want to start this post by congratulating Haru Kuroki who won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at this year’s Berlin Film Festival for her performance in Yoji Yamada’s Little House. Head over to the...
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12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave Running Time: 106 mins. Release Date: February o8th, 2014 Director: Steve McQueen Writer: John Ridley (Screenplay), Solomon Northup (Original Book) Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor,...
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Third Window Films Release Shady
Third Window Films have a great line-up of films from Korea and Japan getting a release this year but the one that I think everybody should be looking out for is Shady. SHADY Japan / 2012 / 94 Mins /...
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Wonderfull!!, Giovanni’s Island, Nakajima Miyuki Girls’ Festival, Red x Pink,...
Lots of films get released this weekend and there is a wide variety of genres and mediums! In this trailer post there are many action films, a concert and wrestling matches and anime. The only title...
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Refugee in Tokyo, Train Heroes the Movie, Ikeshima Ballade, Bodacious Space...
What a week! The focus was on Japanese classes and getting to grips with constructing complex sentences with clauses embedded here, there and everywhere. In between that I’ve started clearing out 20...
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The Great Passage
The Great Passage Japanese Title: 舟を編む Romaji: Fune wo Amu Release Date: April 13th, 2013 (Japan) Seen at the BFI London Film Festival 2013 Running Time: 133 mins. Director: Yuya Ishii...
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Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Japanese Title: 地獄 で なぜ 悪い Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Romaji: Jigoku de Naze Warui Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Release Date: September 28th, 2013 (Japan) Running...
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Homeland, Kiki’s Delivery Service, The Who’s Who of the Machiya, Anime Mirai...
This is the first of the two trailer posts for this week. This instalment features a lot of anime because Anime Mirai 2014 is featured. There is a film that was featured at this year’s Berlin Film...
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Touching the Skin of Eeriness, Love’s Whirlpool, Neko Samurai, Sukima Onna...
The epic clearing out of about 20 years of my life continued this week as I recycled lots of CDs and VHS tapes, a computer with the Windows 98 OS and a lot of Edge magazines. I also got covered in a...
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Mother
Mother Running Time: 128 mins. Release Date: May 28th, 2009 Director: Bong Joon-Ho Writer: Bong Joon-Ho, Park Eun-Kyo (Screenplay), Starring: Kim Hye-Ja, Won Bin, Jin Goo, Yoon Je-moon,...
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Terracotta Far East Film Festival 2014 Announces Dates
The film festival season for 2014 is in full flow with Rotterdam and Berlin having finished and Cannes about to kick off mid May. The Terracotta Far East Film Festival 2014 launches two days before...
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Japan Academy Awards 2014 Results
The 37th Japan Academy Prize results were announced on Friday and two films, Like Father, Like Son and The Great Passage, dominated the proceedings. The Great Passage, the film about the making of a...
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Mai Mai Miracle Meets Kickstarter Goal
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I was blown away by an unexpected anime called Mai Mai Miracle at last year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme. After watching it, I wrote a...
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Silver Spoon, The Court of Zeus, Kizuna Futatabi Kizuna Futatabi no Sora e...
The first of the two trailer posts for the weekend where Japan finally gets to experience 12 Years a Slave (congrats go to the filmmakers for winning big at the Oscars) there are lots of adaptations of...
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Puzzle, Yuigon Genpatsu Sae Nakereba, Itsutsu Kazoereba Kimi no Yume, Idai...
This week has been spent clearing even more of my room out and coming to the realisation that my film collection is larger than I had first thought and most of it is stored in boxes. I watched a couple...
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