All the Long Nights (夜明けのすべて, Sho Miyake, 2024) by Windows on Worlds / Anime Blog Tracker

Remembering Every Night (すべての夜を思いだす, Yui Kiyohara, 2022)

A series of women wander around Tama New Town each searching for something in Yui Kiyohara’s wistful drama.

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Rainbow Over the Pacific (夜明けの二人, Yoshitaro Nomura, 1968)

An unserious man begins to grow up while chasing love in Hawaii in a cheerful if ultimately downbeat musical celebration of the centenary of Japanese migration to Hawaii.

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All About Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ・シュシュのすべて, Shunji Iwai, 2001)

Alienated turn of the century youth finds refuge in the music of an etherial pop star and online connection in Shunji Iwai’s elegiac youth drama.

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Oni to Yoake Yuzikiyo (鬼と夜明け夕月夜)

While shopping in random bookstores in Japan at the end of last year I kept seeing book,s with girls in school uniforms wielding swords. I did that thing…

Okazu

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Remembering Every Night/全ての夜を思い出す

In 2017, director Kiyohara Yui released her first feature film, Our House (私たちの家), and established herself as a talent to watch. Though that film at times felt a…

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Oct 26, 2023 • Subscribe

Anata no Yoru ga Aketera (あなたの夜が明けたら)

Anata no Yoru ga Aketera (あなたの夜が明けたら), translated on the cover as After Sunrise, Haru Harukawa Collection is a collection of shorts by, obviously Harukawa Haru. Some of these…

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Small, Slow But Steady (ケイコ目を澄ませて, Sho Miyake, 2022)

An aspiring boxer begins to lose the will to fight in Sho Miyake’s empathetic character study.

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The New Morning of Billy the Kid (ビリィ★ザ★キッドの新しい夜明け, Naoto Yamakawa, 1986)

A collection of pop culture icons attempt to safeguard a cafe bar/live house from an assault by savage gangsters in Yamakawa’s anarchic post-modern satire

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Ju-On: Origins 呪怨: 呪いの家 Director: Sho Miyake (2020)

Ju-On: Origins 呪怨: 呪いの家 Director: Sho Miyake (2020) is a largely forgettable entry in the horror franchise.

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Thousand and One Nights (千夜、一夜, Nao Kubota, 2022)

Two women are united by the search for answers in the disappearances of their husbands but take very different paths in Nao Kubota’s melancholy tale of unanswerable longing.

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The End of the Pale Hour (明け方の若者たち, Hana Matsumoto, 2021)

Dejected youngsters flounder amid the ruins of the salaryman dream in Hana Matsumoto’s youthful drama.

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The Dawning Sky (明け行く空, Torajiro Saito, 1929)

A female pastor is unexpectedly reunited with the child she was forced to abandon in Torajiro Saito’s tearjerking familial melodrama.

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野獣死すべし OST - Akihiko Takashima

The Beast to Die [Yajû Shisubeshi] Directed by: Toru Murakawa 1980 (Thanks eternally H2O) (Also, s orry for…

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Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月)

Saki loves piano. Or does she? She loves taking lessons with her teacher, she’s sure of that. But her teacher is leaving… In Uyanotsuki, Volume 1 ( 雨夜の月),…

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Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete, Volume 4 (私の拳をうけとめて！)

Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete, Volume 4 does something wonderful. But first…. Soramori and Takebe are taking a trip. To an onsen. Overnight. Yeah, and don’t think they…

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Watashi no Kobushi wo Uketomete, Volume 3 ( 私の拳をうけとめて)

In Volume1 and Volume 2, we met Soramori and Takebe, former rivals in high school gangs who have met once again as adults. Soramori confesses to Takebe that…

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Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫, Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)

A young man from an exiled clan tries to make peace between the natural world and the industrial in Hayao Miyazaki’s landmark 1997 animation

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Mononoke, Princess Mononoke

Intro to Niji Nights 2024

Welcome to readers! Noobs and Otakus, it’s that time of the year again! Our annual celebration of all things under the queer weeby umbrella! Giving you food for…

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365 Nights (三百六十五夜, Kon Ichikawa, 1948)

A noble architect’s life is ruined by an obsessive stalker in Kon Ichikawa’s stylish though improbably post-war melodrama.

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Episode #72 (S10E1) – Princess Mononoke [ もののけ姫] (1997)

We kick off Season 10 with one of the most internationally renowned animated films of all time. Derick McDuff of the Underrated network returns to discuss Studio Ghibli’s…

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The Beast Shall Die (野獣死すべし, Eizo Sugawa, 1959)

A sociopathic serial killing literature student runs rings around an ideologically divided police force in a grimy post-Sun Tribe Toho noir from Eizo Sugawa

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My Atomic Aunt (波の向こう, Kyoko Miyake, 2013)

Documentarian Kyoko Miyake explores the plight of those left in limbo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster through the story of her pioneering aunt Kuniko

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Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 2 ( 雨夜の月)

In Volume 1, we met Saki, a high school student who plays piano, and her classmate (and piano teacher’s daughter), Kanon, who is hard of hearing. Kanon is…

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Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 4 ( 雨夜の月)

Well, wow. A whole lot of story happened in this volume. First, Saki finds Kanon’s former best friend – the one Kanon feel betrayed her – and learns…

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May 7, 2023 • Subscribe

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Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 3 ( 雨夜の月)

2022 has been an absolute celebration of amazing Yuri manga licenses and releases. Almost everything I wanted to have been licensed has been. Of the two remaining that…

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Oct 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 5 (雨夜の月)

In my fevered anticipation for The Moon on a Rainy Night, Volume 1 coming from Kodansha next week, I was thrilled to have the newest volume of the…

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Aug 31, 2023 • Subscribe

Amayo no Tsuki, Volume 6 (雨夜の月)

Do you remember Morinaga Milk’s series Girl Friends? It was an incredibly popular and influential Yuri manga in the early 2010s, so more than a decade ago. The…

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Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu., Volume 7 (兄の嫁と暮らしています。)

Kuzushiro’s Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu. (兄の嫁と暮らしています。) lurches along, awkward, uncomfortable, neither a romance nor something else, and yet, I cannot look away. I last reviewed Volume 5,…

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Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire [シスターズロワイヤル 5姉妹に嫌がらせを受けて困っています] (PlayStation 4) Unboxing

A few days ago I received a shoot em up from Japan, and it came with some interesting goodies.

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Remember Death All Year Long

The man who would be a warrior considers it is the most basic intention to keep death always in mind, day and night, from the time he first…

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Jul 16, 2023 • Subscribe

正チャンの冒険 – Sho-chan Adventures Ep. 5

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Nov 23, 2022 • Subscribe

Episode #54 – Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧)

In the final episode of the season, Kota of the Against Japanism podcast brings his extensive knowledge of Japanese politics and the Japanese left-wing to bear in this…

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Sep 10, 2021 • Subscribe

Right Stuf: So long, and thanks for all the fish

Last month marked the end of an era in the North American industry as the Right Stuf website and store were officially folded into Crunchyroll. It was the…

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Nov 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Love, Life and Goldfish (すくってごらん, Yukinori Makabe, 2021)

An elitist banker learns to embrace his sensitive side when demoted to a country backwater obsessed with goldfish in Yukinori Makabe’s charmingly quirky musical

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Love at Least 生きてるだけで、愛 (2018) Director: Kosai Sekine

Love at Least offers a nuanced depiction of living with depression with three great performances from its lead cast. Love at Least 生きてるだけで、愛 (2018) Director: Kosai Sekine

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Lonely Glory わたしの見ている世界が全て Director: Keitaro Sakon

Lonely Glory わたしの見ている世界が全て, directed by Keitaro Sakon, plays as part of the Japan Film Festival + 2023 season.

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Sep 6, 2023 • Subscribe

New Moomin 37/52 - The Bell That Rings On Moonlit Nights (月夜になる鐘) (1972) (English subtitles)

On moonlit nights, Moominvalley's bell tolls mysteriously, and the culprit seems even stranger, leaving leaves behind. When everyone tries to take the bell down to figure out who…

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