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The Human Wall / 人間の壁/ Ningen no kabe (1959)
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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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Episode #72 (S10E1) – Princess Mononoke [ もののけ姫] (1997)
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A beautifully written patchwork of stories of contemporary Japan each of which focuses on and mainly revolves around one person with associated minor characters who, though obviously less…
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Summer 2020 – Week 9 – The big wall o’ text edition.
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Sleeping Beauty (1959)
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New Moomin 47/52 - Slip Out Of the Land of Ice (氷の国をぬけだせ) (1972) (English subtitles)
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The Big Boss (暗黒街の顔役, Kihachi Okamoto, 1959)
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Beast Alley (けものみち, Eizo Sugawa, 1965)
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Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next (その後の蜂の巣の子供たち, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1951)
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Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (腑抜けども、悲しみの愛を見せろ, Daihachi Yoshida, 2007)
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A little boy’s difficulties in accepting his new stepmother express an anxiety about the changing nature of the family in Hiroshi Shimizu’s familial melodrama.
Episode 373, "Did That Dude's Glasses Break?"
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An interesting conjunction - How to Japanese - September 2023
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An alienated young man resentful of his forced relocation to the countryside bonds with an intense classmate in Yoichi Narita’s gentle coming of age drama
Street of Love and Hope (愛と希望の街, Nagisa Oshima, 1959)
A young man’s pigeon selling scam eventually ruins his cross-class friendship with a wealthy young woman in Oshima’s biting sociopolitical drama
Remembering Every Night/全ての夜を思い出す
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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.
Woman of Design (その場所に女ありて, Hideo Suzuki, 1962)
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今期で注目しているアニメ その他諸々
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墓碑銘の楽しき混乱 A Fun Derangement of Epitaphs
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Yuri Manga: Sore ha, Haru no Arashi no You ni, Volume 1 (それは、春の嵐のように)
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Asterism ni Hanataba o Yuri SF Anthology (アステリズムに花束を 百合 SFアンソロジー)
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