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Dirty Red, Soup, Ima boku wa uso o tsuite iru, Gekijouban Mononoke: Karakasa, Shimbashi Tantei Monogatari 2 Bull Revolver Love, Japanese Film Trailers

Dirty Red, Soup, Ima boku wa uso o tsuite iru, Gekijouban Mononoke: Karakasa, Shimbashi Tantei Monogatari 2 Bull Revolver Love, Japanese Film Trailers

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Mononoke, Mononoke: Karakasa

Blue Imagine ブルーイマジン Director: Urara Matsubayashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 / Japan Cuts 2024]

Director Urara Matsubayashi makes a definitive #MeToo film for the Japanese film industry with her sincere and complex drama Blue Imagine ブルーイマジン [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 / Japan…

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Kubi 首 (2023) Director: Takeshi Kitano, Shuta Takahata [Japan Cuts 2024]

Kubi 首 (2023), directed by Takeshi Kitano, is a historical epic that amps up the violence and sex for satire’s sake as Kitano takes aim at the absurd samurai social…

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Kubi 首 (2023) Director: Takeshi Kitano [Japan Cuts 2024]

Kubi 首 (2023), directed by Takeshi Kitano, is a historical epic that amps up the violence and sex for satire’s sake as Kitano takes aim at the absurd samurai social…

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Whale Bones 鯨の骨 (2023) Director: Takamasa Oe [Japan Cuts 2024]

Takamasa Oe’s social media mystery turns into a satire of living life online as a hapless website worker tries to find a missing AR girl in his beautifully…

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Motion Picture: Choke 映画（窒息) (2023) Director: Gen Nagao [Japan Cuts 2024]

Gen Nagao’s Motion Picture: Choke 映画（窒息) (2023), is a complete surprise with its post-apocalyptic dialogue-free story centred on a cavewoman and sterling action set pieces [Japan Cuts 2024]…

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SHUNGA: The Lost Japanese Erotica  春の画 SHUNGA (2023) Director: Junko Hirata [Nippon Connection 2024]

Junko Hirata’s gorgeous and informative documentary SHUNGA: The Lost Japanese Erotica  春の画 SHUNGA (2023) reclaims the erotic artform by showing the skill involved in making the prints and the…

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Mirai

All the Long Nights 夜明けのすべて (2024) Director: Sho Miyake [Nippon Connection 2024 / Japan Cuts 2024]

Beautifully depicted, workmates suffering in silence with mental and physical conditions feel the warmth of human connection in director Sho Miyake’s All the Long Nights 夜明けのすべて (2024)…

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Alien’s Daydream 地球星人（エイリアン）は空想する (2023) Director: Yoshiki Matsumoto [Nippon Connection 2024]

Yoshiki Matsumoto’s Alien’s Daydream 地球星人（エイリアン）は空想する (2023) is a low-budget movie but goes from a mockumentary and multimedia flood aesthetic to utterly beautiful imagery that hints at…

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Ripples 波紋 (2023) Director: Naoko Ogigami [Nippon Connection 2024]

Ripples 波紋 (2023), written and directed by Naoko Ogigami, [Nippon Connection 2024] [Nippon Connection 2024]

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Sumiko 22, Promised Land, Addict o machinagara, Kaijuu, Yurei wa wagamamana yume o miru, Japanese Film Trailers

Sumiko 22, Promised Land, Addict o machinagara, Kaijuu, Yurei wa wagamamana yume o miru, Japanese Film Trailers

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Sumiko

Visitors – Complete Edition 悪魔がはらわたでいけにえで私 (2024) Director: Kenichi Ugana [Nippon Connection 2024]

Visitors – Complete Edition 悪魔がはらわたでいけにえで私 (2024), by director Kenichi Ugana, serves as an affectionate love letter to splatter horror of the 80s with lots of references to classics like Evil…

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A Preview of the Japanese Titles at the New York Asian Film Festival 2024

A glance at the Japanese films programmed for New York Asian Film Festival 2024!

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Third Window Films Unleashes Gakuryu (Sogo) Ishii’s “The Crazy Family” on Blu-ray on June 17th

Information on the Third Window Films Blu-ray release of Gakuryu (Sogo) Ishii’s “The Crazy Family,” scheduled to drop on June 17th

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A Preview of Japan Cuts 2024 (July 10th – July 21st)

Details on the line-up for Japan Cuts 2024 (July 10th – July 21st))

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Tokyo Cowboy, P DOCUMENTARY OF PLAMO IDOL, Funnys, Keep Your Left Hand Down, Dare ka ga utteru, Japanese Film Trailers

Tokyo Cowboy, P DOCUMENTARY OF PLAMO IDOL, Funnys, Keep Your Left Hand Down, Dare ka ga utteru, Japanese Film Trailers

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Dr. Catherine Munroe Hotes introduces short films that transcend borders at Nippon Connection 2024

Dr. Catherine Munroe Hotes introduces short films by Maya Yonesho, Cagil Harmandar, Izumi Yoshida, Kim Ye-won, and Fukumi Nakazawa at Nippon Connection 2024

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Jakkotai, MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season5, Mujina Pass, Rei, Yume no Arika Hitobito no Toriroji Japanese Film Trailers

Jakkotai, MIRRORLIAR FILMS Season5, Mujina Pass, Rei, Yume no Arika Hitobito no Toriroji Japanese Film Trailers

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LONESOME VACATION ロンサム　バケーション (2023) Director: Atsuro Shimoyashiro [Nippon Connection 2024]

LONESOME VACATION ロンサム　バケーション (2023), by director Atsuro Shimoyashiro, gains strength by playing against noir genre expectations and presents a heart-warming tale of people finding connection in ea…

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LONESOME VACATION ロンサム　バケーション (2023) Director: Atsuro Shimoyashiro [Nippon Connection 2024] Second Draft

LONESOME VACATION ロンサム　バケーション (2023), by director Atsuro Shimoyashiro, gains strength by playing against noir genre expectations and presents a heart-warming tale of people finding connection in ea…

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Who Were We?, Thank You Gateway to the World, Kitchen Kara Hanataba wo, Shneidman Blues, Japanese Film Trailers

Who Were We?, Thank You Gateway to the World, Kitchen Kara Hanataba wo, Shneidman Blues

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Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie, Confession, Tonoban: Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era, Oshukatsu Sai Haru! Jinsei Rhapsody, Japanese Film Trailer

Teasing Master Takagi-san Movie, Confession, Tonoban: Musician Kazuhiko Kato and His Era, Oshukatsu Sai Haru! Jinsei Rhapsody, Japanese Film Trailers

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Jinsei - Life Consulting, Rhapsody, Teasing Master Takagi-san

A Look at Nippon Connection 2024 with Florian Höhr, the Festival’s Programmer [Nippon Connection 2024]

A Look at Nippon Connection 2024 with Florian Höhr, the Festival’s Programmer [Nippon Connection 2024] The festival takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from May 28 to…

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JFF+ Japanese Film Festival Online: Japanese Films Available to Stream in 2024

Stream Japanese Indie Movies via Japanese Film Festival+ – Titles Available: An Artisan’s Legacy, Tsunekazu Nishioka, Hey! Our dear Don-chan, Lonely Glory, Bon Uta A Song From Home,…

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Hanako, Mahiro no Hoshi, Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said, Meteru to Dobutsuenmae no Sekai, Wakamusha, Haru no Kessho, Japanese Film Trailers

Hanako, Mahiro no Hoshi, Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said, Meteru to Dobutsuenmae no Sekai, Wakamusha, Haru no Kessho, Japanese Film Trailers

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Shukujitsu, Runaway Wrestler, Kago no nai Tori, Oraga Mura no Tsuchinoko Sodoki, At the End of Desire, Japanese Film Trailers

Shukujitsu, Runaway Wrestler, Kago no nai Tori, Oraga Mura no Tsuchinoko Sodoki, At the End of Desire, Japanese Film Trailers

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Missing, The Women in the Lakes, Gobangiri, Happiness, i☆Ris the Movie Full Energy!!, Japanese Film Trailers

Missing, The Women in the Lakes, Gobangiri, Happiness, i☆Ris the Movie Full Energy!!, Japanese Film Trailers

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A Preview of 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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Inch Forward 走れない人の走り方 (2024) Director: Su Yu-chun [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Inch Forward 走れない人の走り方 (2024) Director: Su Yu-chun [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

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Japanese, Korean, and Other Asian Films at the Cannes Film Festival 2024

A preview of the Japanese and Korean films at the Cannes Film Festival 2024, which runs from May 14 to the 25

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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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BLUE LOCK, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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