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SADO Tempest UK Screening At Sci-Fi London Festival 2013
A haunting Japanese cinematic rendition of the Shakespeare play “The Tempest”! Date: 6 May 2013 Time: 16.15 Venue: Stratford East Picturehouse, Salway Road, E15 1BX London Includes a Q… more →
Diverse Japan
Well received Japanese film - I WISH - finally gets UK dvd release
wrote 12 hours ago: I WISH (PG) 2011 JAPAN KOREEDA, HIROKAZU £15.99 Two brothers torn apart by their parents … more →
Call for Papers: Enola's Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb, an edited anthology of essays
wrote 5 days ago: This is a call for papers, for a new anthology tentatively titled Enola’s Light: Japanese Cine … more →
Collection of films by Japanese director SADAO YAMANAKA gets the deluxe dvd treatment
wrote 6 days ago: COMPLETE EXISTING FILMS OF SADAO YAMANAKA (PG) JAPAN 1937 £25.99 The brief but prodigious career of … more →
Throne of Blood - Kurosawa's Masterpiece
wrote 1 week ago: Akira Kurosawa’s retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a haunting, pulsing folklore … more →
REVIEW: Death Tube
wrote 1 week ago: This was originally published at Zone SF. I’ll begin by saying this about the film: it is ment … more →
Why We Watch: A Lost in the Miso Exclusive (Part 1)
wrote 2 weeks ago: Lost in the Miso exclusive: Film bloggers talk about their love of Japanese and other foreign film, … more →
Movie Night
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wrote 2 weeks ago: A few weeks ago we were having dinner with two dear friends when the subject of Japanese cinema came … more →
That Day: Documentary
wrote 2 weeks ago: A voice over script I wrote for the documentary film, That Day. Rebecca Irby and Richard Mirocco br … more →
Anime, Japanese Cinema’s Second Golden Age: Celebrating a Decade of Progress (and Fandom)
wrote 2 weeks ago: By DAVE KEHR First Published: January 20, 2002, by The New York Times Perfect Blue (reviews.minitoky … more →
GUN AND SWORD: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I first became familiar with Chris D.’s (Dejardins) writing in the early 90s thanks to his work for … more →
Tom's SFIFF56 Report: Day 4 - "Night Across The Street", "The East", and "Key of Life"
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wrote 3 weeks ago: What a better way to spend a beautiful, sunny San Francisco day than to watch some films at a film f … more →
SADO Tempest UK Screening At Sci-Fi London Festival 2013
wrote 3 weeks ago: A haunting Japanese cinematic rendition of the Shakespeare play “The Tempest”! Date: 6 M … more →
My Favorite Hou Hsiao-hsien Films
wrote 3 weeks ago: * * * * (Out of * * * *) 1. Flowers of Shanghai (1998) 2. The Puppetmaster (1993) 3. Goodbye S … more →
'Battle Royale' (2000): Review
wrote 3 weeks ago: Like most snobs contend that ‘The Man from Nowhere’ (2010) is the much better, much more … more →
Notes On Bakamatsu Taiyô-Den
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wrote 4 weeks ago: It’s often said that one ought to watch at least one new movie that they’ve no previous … more →
Wafu FM Episode 20
wrote 1 month ago: News: Weird Science remake on the horizon, more Star Wars/Disney bollocks, The Tomb changes its titl … more →
Wafu FM Episode 19
wrote 1 month ago: News: CZ 12 wins awards, S.H.I.E.L.D pilot, Street Fighter: Assassins Fist needs your help, The Over … more →
Episode 20 - Another Ten Episodes, Another Remake...
wrote 1 month ago: News: Weird Science remake on the horizon, more Star Wars/Disney bollocks, The Tomb changes its titl … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Eventful almost to the point of disbelief in parts, always unpredictable, ‘Dreams for Sale … more →
