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Featured image for Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) –  April 6, 2024Background image for Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) –  April 6, 2024

Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – April 6, 2024

Yuri Manga I Want to Love You Till Your Dying Day Kimi ga Shinu made Koi wo Shitai) licensed by Kodansha, via Alex Mateo. Creator Arai Sumiko has…

Okazu

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Sumiko 22 スミコ22 (2024) Director: Sawako Fukuoka [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024] Second Draft

Sumiko 22 スミコ22 (2024), sees editor/writer/director Sawako Fukuoka draw upon her own experiences to make a quirky comedy/drama about the everyday pressures and small-scale strangeness experienced b…

Genkinahito

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Sumiko 22 スミコ22 (2024) Director: Sawako Fukuoka [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Sumiko 22 スミコ22 (2024), sees editor/writer/director Sawako Fukuoka draw upon her own experiences to make a quirky comedy/drama about the everyday pressures and small-scale strangeness experienced b…

Genkinahito

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Sumiko 22 (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A subtle but playful narrative about a subject who slowly tries to crawl out the hole of emptiness and diminished self-worth.

psycho-cinematography

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Sumiko 22 (スミコ22, Sawako Fukuoka, 2024)

A young woman fears she’s losing her sense of self but begins to regain an interest in the world through a series os surreal encounters in Sawako Fukuoka’s…

Windows on Worlds

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A Preview of the Japanese Films at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024

A Preview of the Japanese Films at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 (March 01 – March 10) – trailers and synopses.

Genkinahito

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – February 10, 2024

Yuri Manga Melonbooks is doing a promotion if you buy Volume 2 of Kininatteru Hito Ga Otoko Jankakatta (気になってる人が男じゃなかった), by Arai Sumiko, you will be entered into a…

Okazu

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Wait and See (あ、春, Shinji Somai, 1998)

An emotionally distant salaryman faces instability in his professional and personal lives just as his estranged father resurfaces in Somai’s gentle family drama.

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The Beauty and the Dragon (美女と怪龍, Kozaburo Yoshimura, 1955)

A clever princess takes advantage of a courtly crisis to save the kingdom and arrange her own marriage in Kozaburo Yoshimura’s adaptation of the well-known kabuki play Narukami.

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Yuri Network News – (百合ネットワークニュース) – December 9, 2023

Yuri Manga Yamashita Tomoko’s Ikkou Nikki, about a person-avoidant woman who takes in her niece, who is queer,  has been named best manga in DaVinci magazine’s “Book of…

Okazu

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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All – A Revist

I think a few of you might recognize the lime green backgrounds with the grey scale characters. Or maybe you have an inkling about this series due to…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Cat-Eyed Boy 03

Happy Halloween! Barely in time, Orphan yet again brings you some paper cut-out thrills and chills: the third episode of Umezz Kazuo's 1976 ...

Collectr's Blog

Featured image for Blood of Revenge (明治侠客伝 三代目襲名, Tai Kato, 1965)Background image for Blood of Revenge (明治侠客伝 三代目襲名, Tai Kato, 1965)

Blood of Revenge (明治侠客伝 三代目襲名, Tai Kato, 1965)

An earnest yakuza trying to walk a more legitimate path faces off against a thuggish businessman in Tai Kato’s late-Meiji ninkyo eiga.

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Featured image for New Moomin 52/52 - Farewell, Moominvalley (さらばムーミン谷) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 52/52 - Farewell, Moominvalley (さらばムーミン谷) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 52/52 - Farewell, Moominvalley (さらばムーミン谷) (1972) (English subtitles)

It is time for Moominvalley to go into hibernation, and for Snufkin to leave for the winter. Before he departs, Snufkin takes one last look around Moominvalley and…

Toadette-IAD

Featured image for New Moomin 48/52 - The Broken Necklace (こわれたくびかざり) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 48/52 - The Broken Necklace (こわれたくびかざり) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 48/52 - The Broken Necklace (こわれたくびかざり) (1972) (English subtitles)

The snows are approaching in Moominvalley, and Moomin and his pals are making their own necklaces while they still can. My, jealous of Nonnon's beautiful necklace, attempts to…

Toadette-IAD

Featured image for New Moomin 43/52 - Arion's Lyre (アリオンのたて琴) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 43/52 - Arion's Lyre (アリオンのたて琴) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 43/52 - Arion's Lyre (アリオンのたて琴) (1972) (English subtitles)

Pappa waxes lyrical about the stars, and tells Moomin the tale of Arion and his lyre to convey to him the power of beautiful poetry. The next day,…

Toadette-IAD

Featured image for New Moomin 38/52 - The Curse of the Red Moon (赤い月の呪い) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 38/52 - The Curse of the Red Moon (赤い月の呪い) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 38/52 - The Curse of the Red Moon (赤い月の呪い) (1972) (English subtitles)

Every lunar eclipse, swarms of bats arrive in Moominvalley, and these bats are said to be vampiric. When it turns out that Snufkin has been taking care of…

Toadette-IAD

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The Hunter’s Diary (猟人日記, Ko Nakahira, 1964)

A serial philanderer’s life is upended when his conquests start turning up dead in Ko Nakashira’s twisted noir.

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Featured image for New Moomin 34/52 - I Am King! (ぼくは王様だ!) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 34/52 - I Am King! (ぼくは王様だ!) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 34/52 - I Am King! (ぼくは王様だ!) (1972) (English subtitles)

Moomin has to clean the storehouse before he can go play with his friends in the sea. While rummaging through the items, he finds a strange pair of…

Toadette-IAD

Featured image for New Moomin 8/52 - The Marvelous Spoon (ふしぎなスプーン) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 8/52 - The Marvelous Spoon (ふしぎなスプーン) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 8/52 - The Marvelous Spoon (ふしぎなスプーン) (1972) (English subtitles)

Moomin is a picky eater, and is curious about starvation. When Pappa takes out a giant spoon and discusses how it has kept the family from starving, Moomin…

Toadette-IAD

Featured image for New Moomin 4/52 - Snufkin Is Back (スナフキンが帰って来た) (1972) (English subtitles)Background image for New Moomin 4/52 - Snufkin Is Back (スナフキンが帰って来た) (1972) (English subtitles)

New Moomin 4/52 - Snufkin Is Back (スナフキンが帰って来た) (1972) (English subtitles)

Moomin seems to have broken Mr. Hemulen's horn, so he takes on various jobs in an attempt to buy a new one for him. Along the way, however,…

Toadette-IAD

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Twitter Comic Intro – The Person You’re Interested In, Isn’t a Guy

I had a different post planned for today. Unfortunately, I got in my own way and it didn’t happen – so we’re trying something new today. I do…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

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Air Doll (空気人形, Hirokazu Koreeda, 2009)

An inflatable doll gains a heart only to find it broken by the emptiness of contemporary society in Hirokazu Koreeda’s urban fable

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Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko: Authorship and Gender Di...

Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko: Authorship and Gender Discourses The Japan Foundation, London partnered with Birkbeck, University of London to present a two-part event: “Japanese Documentary Filmmaker Haneda Sumiko:…

Japan Foundation

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Queer Japan (クィア・ジャパン, Graham Kolbeins, 2019)

Kolbeins’ elegantly designed documentary showcases the breadth and diversity of Japan’s vibrant LGBTQ+ community without losing sight of battles still to be won

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Red Handkerchief (赤いハンカチ, Toshio Masuda, 1964)

A pure-hearted former policeman embarks on a noirish journey of retribution after discovering his partner may have betrayed him in Masuda’s stylish crime drama

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Featured image for Casting Blossoms to the Sky (この空の花 長岡花火物語, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012)Background image for Casting Blossoms to the Sky (この空の花 長岡花火物語, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012)

Casting Blossoms to the Sky (この空の花 長岡花火物語, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012)

An emotionally arrested journalist begins to reconnect with the past through wartime stories of Nagaoka in Obayashi’s compassionate plea for a kinder future

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Seiyuu Veteran Shirakawa Sumiko Passes away

  Shirakawa Sumiko aka Shirato Sumiko she was 80 and was famous for her role in Doraemon as Dekisugi and recently Sazae-san as Nakajima-kun. Shirakawa’s final episode on Sazae-san as Nakajima-…

The CyberNauts Cast Podcast

Featured image for YOTSUYA KAIDAN 四谷怪談 (1949) + NIJI OTOKO (THE RAINBOW MAN) 虹男 (1949)Background image for YOTSUYA KAIDAN 四谷怪談 (1949) + NIJI OTOKO (THE RAINBOW MAN) 虹男 (1949)

YOTSUYA KAIDAN 四谷怪談 (1949) + NIJI OTOKO (THE RAINBOW MAN) 虹男 (1949)

YOTSUYA KAIDAN This is one of several film versions of  Tsuruya Nanboku IV’s story, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan. Nanboku wrote this tale...

Black Sun

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INTERVIEW: Director Yuki Tanada and The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky

Yuki Tanada at the 36th Toronto International Film Festival (L), The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky theatrical poster (R) by…

Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow