Month: September 2003

Film festival time is coming up in Tokyo, and I still can’t understand why they put all the big film festivals in the same month (November) every year, which means that I can’t really afford to go to all of them. First up is the Tokyo International Film Festival (November 1-9), which is the one…

I am all over the new Mark Robinson album, ORIGAMI AND URBANISM, and what a fitting title for this site. Get thee to the TeenBeat website and order this as fast as humanly possible. While you’re there, also order his excellent CANADA’S GREEN HIGHWAYS. This came as a total surprise this week as I had…

From Japan Today: People who give their store a French name don’t worry about the meaning. All they care about is how it sounds. – Jean Dacher, head of the French department at Nova, on the current trend for many retail outlets to adopt French names. (Reuters) This is so true, you see it everywhere.…

An anime series based on the game GUNGRAVE is going to be making its debut on TV Tokyo October 6 at 25:30 (which is the Japanese way of indicating after midnight). So that’s what will be replacing LAST EXILE, which ends next week. Looks like it might be good.

Satoshi Kon’s MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is getting distributed in North America through a new Dreamworks label called Go Fish Pictures. They’ve just launched their site. And in other Satoshi Kon news (from AICN): Satoshi Kon, whose anime movie work has included Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress will be writing, producing, and by some reports directing TV…

Oh yeah, a new comic hero for our age. From Yahoo! News (click on the link for the whole article): A newly published comic book depicting the bizarre life of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-Il has proved a runaway success with Japanese devotees of manga cartoons.

Oh man, Andrew W.K. was just on WARATTE II TOMO. He was participating in a game with the regulars where they show two images, and one person says the Japanese word, and Andrew and a bandmate had to guess what it was. Everytime he got it right he was freaking out, jumping up and down…