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THE YURI TIMESでは、漫画『どれが恋かがわからない』（KADOKAWA）の著者、奥たまむし先生にインタビューさせていただきました。
"これいる？ vs. これ欲しい？" #learnjapanese
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Minamata Mandala (水俣曼荼羅, Kazuo Hara, 2020)
Kazuo Hara’s empathetic documentary follows suffers and researchers of Minamata Disease as they battle continued governmental indifference
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On ゆきゆきて、神軍 Dir: Kazuo Hara, Producer: Sachiko Kobayashi (1987)
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Dear Etranger / 幼な子われらに生まれ
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Kazuo Hara attempts to understand enigmatic author Mitsuharu Inoue as he follows him through the final months of his life
Domains 王国 (あるいはその家について) (2019) Dir: Natsuka Kusano
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Basic Japanese Sentence Structure No. 20 かわいい #learnjapanese
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初めて言われました
The newsletter is online! This month I wrote about the nice, efficient phrase 初めて言われました (Hajimete iwaremashita, That’s the first time anyone has said that about me). I think…
SAKURA (朽ちないサクラ, Hiroto Hara, 2024)
A police PR assistant turns investigator when her friend is murdered only to stumble on a wider conspiracy in Hiroto Hara’s paranois thriller.
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Mathematical Goodbye / 笑わない数学者
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A Dedicated Life 全身小説家 (1994) Director: Kazuo Hara, Producer: Sachiko Kobayashi
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Special - Cinema as Struggle: A Retrospective on the Films of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi
Hello everyone, In this special episode of Heroic Purgatory, John and Jason take a brake from 90s Asian cinema to discuss a retrospective on the cinema of documentarians Kazuo…
Life’s Extremes: Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi’s Shifting Documentary Practices and Trilogy of “Living Dissent”
From June 4 to July 2, 2021, Japan Society’s retrospective “Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi” celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Shisso Productions,…
Baby Assassins (ベイビーわるきゅーれ, Yugo Sakamoto, 2021)
A pair of mismatched high school girls raised as elite assassins get swept into gangland conflict while forced to live together to learn how integrate into society in…
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『どれが恋かがわからない』奥たまむし先生インタビュー（第二回）
THE YURI TIMESでは、漫画『どれが恋かがわからない』（KADOKAWA）の著者、奥たまむし先生にインタビューさせていただきました。
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Haruka’s Pottery ハルカの陶 Dir: Naruhito Suetsugu (2019)
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Aisarete mo Iindayo, Volume 1 ( 愛されてもいいんだよ)
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Happy Birthday to me! And what better way to celebrate than with this! The final short fiction in this phase of our plan!
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Family of Strangers (閉鎖病棟 それぞれの朝, Hideyuki Hirayama, 2019)
A collection of patients at a psychiatric clinic eventually find new strength to accept themselves through mutual solidarity Hirayama’s empathetic social drama
"Would it Be これがいりますか？" #learnjapanese
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The staff of a hotel along with its guests find themselves trapped in an infinite two minute loop in Junta Yamaguchi’s strangely poignant farce.
A Muse Never Drowns (ミューズは溺れない, Nozomi Asao, 2022)
A teenage girl flounders amid a series of changes in her life while questioning her future and identity in Nozomi Asao’s empathetic coming-of-age film.
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Baby Assassins: Nice Days (ベイビーわるきゅーれ ナイスデイズ, Yugo Sakamoto, 2024) [Fantasia 2024]
After beginning to conquer the demands of adulthood, Mahiro (Saori Izawa) and Chisato (Akari Takaishi) are taking a well-deserved break, or more like a working holiday to be…
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