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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.

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Feb 19, 2024 • Subscribe

Swimming, Sumiko

A Glimpse at the Japanese Films and a Selection of Others at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

A glimpse at the feast of Japanese films and a few titles that really moved me that are playing at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 (March 10th to…

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Mar 6, 2023 • Subscribe

After the Rain

A Glimpse at the Films at the Tokyo Student Film Festival 2023

A Glimpse at the 12 films programmed for the Tokyo Student Film Festival 2022, which runs from August 18th to August 20th in Shibuya Eurolive

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Aug 17, 2023 • Subscribe

A Glimpse at the Films at the Tokyo Student Film Festival 2022

A Glimpse at the 12 films programmed for the Tokyo Student Film Festival 2022, which runs from August 20th to August 21st in Shibuya Eurospace

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Aug 17, 2022 • Subscribe

A Glimpse at the Films at the Tokyo Student Film Festival 2021

A Glimpse at the 25 films at the Tokyo Student Film Festival 2021, which runs from October 19th to October 23rd in Shibuya Eurospace

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Oct 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022’s Japanese Films

Details on many of the Japanese films that will be screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022

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Mar 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

 For the second year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) which took place between March 10 and March 19.…

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Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

 For the second year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) which took place between March 10 and March 19.…

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Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023

 For the second year in a row, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) which took place between March 10 and March 19.…

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Mar 21, 2023 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022’s Opening and Closing Films

Details on Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022’s Opening and Closing Films – Yanagawa, Miss Osaka

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Feb 9, 2022 • Subscribe

A Glimpse at the Japanese, Korean, and Other Asian Films at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 (September 07th-17th)

A Preview of the rich variety of Asian films at the Toronto International Film Festival 2023 (September 07th-17th)

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Aug 22, 2023 • Subscribe

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

Japanese Films at the London East Asian Film Festival 2021

A brief look at the Japanese Films at the London East Asian Film Festival 2021

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Sep 27, 2021 • 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

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

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

A Glimpse at the Films at the Five Flavours Film Festival 2023 (November 15th to the 21st)

An Early Glimpse at the Films at the Five Flavours Film Festival 2023 (November 15th to the 21st) – works from Chihiro Ito, King Hu and a whole…

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Oct 27, 2023 • Subscribe

A Glimpse at the Japanese Films at the Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival 2023

Cinema at Sea – Okinawa Pan-Pacific International Film Festival 2023 – November 23rd to November 29th – will screen films from nations around the Pacific region. This post…

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Nov 7, 2023 • 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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Mar 2, 2024 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022: 10 Japanese Films Online and Available Internationally

Details on the films programmed for the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 Online Theater (Available Internationally)

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Mar 3, 2022 • Subscribe

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

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

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 Announces Complete Lineup

At venues across Osaka March 10 to 20 plus 10-film retrospective selection streaming worldwide March 3 to 21

Windows on Worlds

Feb 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 Announces Complete Lineup

In Osaka 10th to 19th March.

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Mar 5, 2023 • 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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Mar 6, 2024 • Subscribe

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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Mar 2, 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

Japanese Films at the Chicago Film Festival 2023

A Preview of the Chicago International Film Festival 2023 – October 11 to 22 – Monster, Evil Does Not Exist, The Boy and the Heron, Before Anyone Else,…

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Sep 20, 2023 • Subscribe

The Boy and the Heron

Japanese Films at the Glasgow Film Festival 2022

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

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Feb 2, 2022 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the Cannes Film Festival 2021

A preview of the Japanese and Japanese co-production films at the Cannes Film Festival 2021

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Jun 16, 2021 • 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

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

Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2022

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2020

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Feb 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Bubble

Japanese Films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2023

A preview of the Japanese Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023

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Jan 18, 2023 • Subscribe

Japan Sinks: 2020, Kick-Heart, Lu Over the Wall, Mind Game, Ride Your Wave

Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2022

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2022

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Sep 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2022

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2022 – 5 to 16 October in cinemas around the UK, 14 to 23 October on…

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Sep 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Tomorrow’s Leaves

Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2021

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2021 (October 06th – 17th)

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Sep 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Tomorrow’s Leaves

Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2021

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2020

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Sep 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Special A

Japanese Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022

A preview of the Japanese Films at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2022

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Jan 19, 2022 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the Hawai’i International Film Festival 2023

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Hawai’i International Film Festival 2023, which runs from October 12-22

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Sep 27, 2023 • Subscribe

The Boy and the Heron

Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2023

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2022 (February 16-26)

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Feb 6, 2023 • Subscribe

Suzume

Japanese Films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

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Aug 20, 2021 • Subscribe

The Deer King

Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2021

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Berlin International Film Festival 2020

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Feb 17, 2021 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the Glasgow International Film Festival 2021

A Preview of the One Japanese Film at the Glasgow International Film Festival 2021

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Feb 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2023

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the BFI London Film Festival 2022 – 4 to 16 October in cinemas around the UK,

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Sep 5, 2023 • Subscribe

The Boy and the Heron

Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2023

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2022 – September 28th to October 08th – will screen MONSTER, EVIL DOES NOT EXIST, UNDERCURRENT, THE…

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Sep 7, 2023 • Subscribe

The Boy and the Heron

Japanese Films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023: THE FIRST SLAM DUNK and TOKYO POP are on the programme.

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Aug 16, 2023 • Subscribe

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK

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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Mar 25, 2024 • Subscribe

Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 – In Cinemas, Online, and International

Details on Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 – It Plays In Cinemas and Online and the online part with be available to International Viewers!

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Jan 31, 2022 • Subscribe

POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]

POP! provides a slightly surreal, slightly sweet existential crisis. POP! Director: Masashi Komura (2021) [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021]

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Mar 24, 2021 • Subscribe