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Hard-boiled Recipe, Seigi no Yukue, Echigo Okumiomote Digital Remaster, Rajio Shimokojiro Japanese Film Trailers

Hard-boiled Recipe, Seigi no Yukue, Echigo Okumiomote Digital Remaster, Rajio Shimokojiro Japanese Film Trailers

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Pain of the Anonymous, Double Life, 94-sai no Gei, Tatsumi, Osaka Casino, Japanese Film Trailers

Pain of the Anonymous, Double Life, 94-sai no Gei, Tatsumi, Osaka Casino, Japanese Film Trailers

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Amalock, Kiri no Fuchi   /   Beyond the Fog, Blue Lock: EPISODE Nagi, Onmyoji Zero, YOKOHAMA, Japanese Film Trailers

Amalock, Kiri no Fuchi   /   Beyond the Fog, Blue Lock: EPISODE Nagi, Onmyoji Zero, YOKOHAMA, Japanese Film Trailers

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8 days ago • Subscribe

BLUELOCK, BLUE LOCK THE MOVIE -EPISODE NAGI-, Onmyoji

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (2022) Director: Daisuke Miyazaki

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Dir: Daisuke Miyazaki, 2022) sees him explore the randomness of life and the preciousness of relationships in a series of vignettes split…

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Make-Believers, Ketsudan Unmei o Kaeta 3.11 Boshi Hinan, Kouin, Koza Mama Utatte! Koza no Mama-san!!, Nichi Nichi Geijutsu, Japanese Film Trailers

Make-Believers, Ketsudan Unmei o Kaeta 3.11 Boshi Hinan, Kouin, Koza Mama Utatte! Koza no Mama-san!!, Nichi Nichi Geijutsu, Japanese Film Trailers

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Ketsudan

Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram, The Yangtze River, Kuramerukagari, Kurayukaba, Himuro Renji, Fromage Japonais, Japanese Film Trailers

Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram, The Yangtze River, Kuramerukagari, Kurayukaba, Himuro Renji, Fromage Japonais, Japanese Film Trailers

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Kuramerukagari, Kurayukaba

Early Announcements for Nippon Connection 2024

Nippon Connection takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from May 28 to June 2, and there are expected to be around 100 shorts and features programmed. Here…

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Blue Giant, Phoenix, The Concierge

Performing KAORU’s Funeral カオルの葬式 Director: Noriko Yuasa [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Performing KAORU’s Funeral カオルの葬式 (Dir Noriko Yuasa) is a heady story of remembering an individual through pulling together memories. Amidst the farce and tears of the funeral lies a…

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Sojourn to Shangri-la 是日访古 Director: Lin Yihan [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

In “Sojourn to Shangri-la” 是日访古, director Lin Yihan uses the tragicomic event of a failed fashion shoot to slip into an exploration of the transcendent and mythological and…

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Gekijouban Kaijuu wa Osotte Kurenai, MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS, Watashi no Kaasan Tenshi no Uta, Toritsukushima Japanese Film Trailers

Gekijouban Kaijuu wa Osotte Kurenai, MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS, Watashi no Kaasan Tenshi no Uta, Toritsukushima Japanese Film Trailers

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Kurenai

Masaru Sano on Capturing Good Images for His Phantasmagorical Film Perfect Nervous (2024) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 Interview]

“We meticulously took photographs during the location scouting and created storyboards based on the photos, with the intention of making all the shots as beautiful as possible.”: Masaru…

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Perfect Nervous (2024) Dir: Masaru Sano [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Perfect Nervous (Dir: Masaru Sano, 2024) is a gorgeous short film with fantastical elements as it tells a life-affirming story wherein two young women with incurable body-altering diseases…

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Mar 25, 2024 • Subscribe

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (4K Remaster), Yurushi, Usagi no Oyako, Hona Mata Ashita, Japanese Film Trailers

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (4K Remaster), Yurushi, Usagi no Oyako, Hona Mata Ashita, Japanese Film Trailers

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Mar 21, 2024 • Subscribe

April Come She Will, Neko to Watashi to mo Hitori no Neko, Penalty Loop, Volunteering for Fools Documentary of The Swanky’s, Japanese Film Trailers

April Come She Will, Neko to Watashi to mo Hitori no Neko, Penalty Loop, Volunteering for Fools Documentary of The Swanky’s, Japanese Film Trailers

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Mar 20, 2024 • Subscribe

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…

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Mar 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Sumiko

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…

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Mar 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Sumiko

Kimagure, Blue Imagine, Ikusafumu, Moeru Dress o Tsumuida Japanese Film Trailers 

Kimagure, Blue Imagine, Ikusafumu, Moeru Dress o Tsumuida Japanese Film Trailers    

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Mar 15, 2024 • Subscribe

Henna Ie, Lovesick Ellie, Seishun Jack Tomerareruka, Oretachi wo 2, Japanese Film Trailers

Henna Ie, Lovesick Ellie, Seishun Jack Tomerareruka, Oretachi wo 2, Japanese Film Trailers

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Mar 14, 2024 • Subscribe

It Must Be Love 愛の茶番 Director: Junko Emoto [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

It Must Be Love 愛の茶番, by director Junko Emoto, has actors give fun improvisational performances as egotistic characters driven crazy by love in a film-meets-theatre experiment. [Osaka Asian…

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Mar 8, 2024 • Subscribe

The Winter of 1905 (1981) Director: Yu Wei-Cheng [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

The Winter of 1905 (1981), directed by Yu Wei-Cheng, is a solid dramatisation of Li Shutong’s time in Japan and the influences that would lead him to become…

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Mar 7, 2024 • Subscribe

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (2023) Director: Elene Naveriani [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (2023), by director Elene Naveriani, is a touching late coming-of-age film about a 48-year-old woman in a Georgian village growing into herself after a near-death…

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Snowdrop スノードロップ Director: Kota Yoshida [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Snowdrop スノードロップ, by director Kota Yoshida, is a socially conscious domestic drama/character study that looks at the welfare system via a woman chased by the trauma of abandonment…

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Mar 5, 2024 • Subscribe

City of Wind (2023) Director: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

City of Wind (2023), by director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, is a perfectly-crafted portrait of Mongolian youth that looks at the way modernity and tradition, social order and individuality affect…

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Mar 4, 2024 • Subscribe

Memories of His Scent においが眠るまで Director: Kahori Higashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Memories of His Scent においが眠るまで, by director Kahori Higashi, is a gentle and melancholy tale of a teenage girl searching for her late father through smell and visiting…

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Mar 3, 2024 • Subscribe

On a Boat オン・ア・ボート (2024) Director: Heso [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Black comedy and painful humiliation abound as a mismatched couple vie for control in the black comedy On a Boat オン・ア・ボート (2024) Director: Heso [Osaka Asian Film Festival…

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Suton すとん Director: Rikako Watanabe [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Suton すとん, by director Rikako Watanabe. is a quietly affecting character study where a young woman’s life is marked by the poignancy of aging and separation and also…

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Wash Away うぉっしゅ Director: Ikunosuke Okazaki [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Wash Away うぉっしゅ, the sophomore feature by director Ikunosuke Okazaki, may have an unlikely premise but it works well as an existential examination of loneliness. It plays at…

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Mar 1, 2024 • Subscribe

Falling Into Place Director: Aylin Tezel [Glasgow International Film Festival 2024]

Falling Into Place, by director: Aylin Tezel, is a beautifully shot story of a couple struggling through personal problems to realise their romance that is told in an…

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Mar 1, 2024 • Subscribe

Third Window Films Release Tak Sakaguchi’s ONE PERCENTER on Blu-ray and Digitally on March 11th

Details on the Third Window Films release of ONE PERCENTER on Blu-ray and Digitally on March 11th!

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Feb 26, 2024 • Subscribe

Kanon

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

Feb 19, 2024 • Subscribe

Swimming, Sumiko

Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2024

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2024 (February 15-25)

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Feb 13, 2024 • Subscribe

MAD CATS (2023) Director: Reiki Tsuno

A Review of MAD CATS, the Third Window Films release on Blu-ray and Digital Formats! It came out on January 29th!

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Feb 12, 2024 • Subscribe

Third Window Films Release Junta Yamaguchi’s 2023 Time-Loop Comedy RIVER on DVD, Blu-ray and Digitally on 12th February

Details on the Third Window Films DVD/Blu-ray/digital release of Junta Yamaguchi’s 2023 time-loop comedy RIVER.

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Feb 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Osaka University of the Arts Department of Film and New Media Graduation Works 2024

Osaka University of the Arts Department of Film and New Media Graduation Works 2024

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Feb 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Graduation

Japanese and Korean Films at the Glasgow Film Festival 2024

A Preview of the One Japanese Film at the Glasgow Film Festival 2022

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Feb 6, 2024 • Subscribe

A Glimpse at the Films at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024

A glimpse at the feast of films programmed for Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 (March 01st to March 10th)

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Feb 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Pig Daddy, Baseball Youtuber Yuya, Yumemiru Kyuushoku, Yumemiru Kyuushoku Kanketsu-hen, Okinawa Kyosokyoku, Sampaguita, Japanese Film Trailers

Pig Daddy, Baseball Youtuber Yuya, Yumemiru Kyuushoku, Yumemiru Kyuushoku Kanketsu-hen, Okinawa Kyosokyoku, Sampaguita, Japanese Film Trailers

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Feb 4, 2024 • Subscribe

Given Winter Mix (movie 2024), Kemonote, Let It Be: Bloom, Everything Everywhere, Sono Kodo ni Mimi o Ateyo, Japanese Film Trailers

Given Winter Mix (movie 2024), Kemonote, Let It Be: Bloom, Everything Everywhere, Sono Kodo ni Mimi o Ateyo, Japanese Film Trailers

Genkinahito

Jan 25, 2024 • Subscribe

S (Esu), Omoi de o, Koete Ike 30th Documentary HAWKS, YUKIHIRO TAKAHASHI LIVE 2018 SARAVAH SARAVAH!, Charo no Saezuri Japanese Film Trailers

S (Esu), Omoi de o Koete Ike 30th Documentary HAWKS, YUKIHIRO TAKAHASHI LIVE 2018 SARAVAH SARAVAH!, Charo no Saezuri, Japanese Film Trailers

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Jan 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 – Unforgettable – Memories, Times and Reflections in Japanese Cinema

A preview of the Japan Foundation’s 2024 Touring Film Programme – get information on the films, from trailers, synopses, and more.

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Jan 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2024

A Preview of the Japanese Films Programmed for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024

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Jan 15, 2024 • Subscribe

Project X-Zone 1 and 2 Director: Soichiro Morizumi

After nearly a decade in storage, I finally played both Project X Zone 1 and 2 and generally found them entertaining, regardless of the slog of the storyline.…

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Jan 9, 2024 • Subscribe

Third Window Films Releases 2023 Indie Action Comedy MAD CATS on Blu-ray and Digitally on 29th January

Details on the Third Window Films release of MAD CATS on Blu-ray and Digital Formats! See it on January 29th!

Genkinahito

Jan 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Genkina hito’s Top Ten Films of the Year (2023)

The ten films that meant the most to me (and ones I judged to be of the highest quality!) of 2023!

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Jan 3, 2024 • Subscribe

MARINES DOCUMENTARY 2023 Kyou o Chansu ni Kaeru., Why Space Boku ga Uchuu e Itta Riyuu Japanese Film Trailers

MARINES DOCUMENTARY 2023 Kyou o Chansu ni Kaeru., Why Space Boku ga Uchuu e Itta Riyuu Japanese Film Trailers

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Dec 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Monster  怪物 (2023) Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]

Monster 怪物 (2023), by director Hirokazu Kore-eda, is a Rashomon-like story about how misapprehension can cause problems and hide people’s suffering. [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]…

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Concrete Utopia 콘크리트 유토피아 (2023) Director: Um Tae-hwa [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]

Concrete Utopia 콘크리트 유토피아 (2023), directed by Um Tae-hwa, is a disaster movie that marries together an apocalyptic earthquake and the dog-eat-dog world of home ownership in Korea. [Chicago…

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Dec 18, 2023 • Subscribe

The Night Before, Ami wa Obake, 99% Cloudy… Always, Kokoro no Ari ka, Starting Over, Good Luck My Road Japanese Film Trailers

The Night Before, Ami wa Obake, 99% Cloudy… Always, Kokoro no Ari ka, Starting Over, Good Luck My Road, Japanese Film Trailers

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Dec 15, 2023 • Subscribe

The Imaginary, Hanshin Tiger’s THE MOVIE 2023 Eikou no ARE, Father Father, Polar Night, Mikikan’no tomo ni, Daughter, Japanese Film Trailers

The Imaginary, Hanshin Tiger’s THE MOVIE 2023 Eikou no ARE, Father Father, Polar Night, Mikikan’no tomo ni, Daughter, Japanese Film Trailers

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Dec 14, 2023 • Subscribe

The Imaginary

Raging Grace (2023) Director: Paris Zarcilla [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]

Raging Grace (2023), by director Paris Zarcilla, cleverly offers a balance of social commentary and historical horror that emerges in the experiences of a carer living in present-day…

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Dec 11, 2023 • Subscribe