Category: Film

  • Taking a Walk with Gondry

    PingMag spends an afternoon walking around Asakusa with filmmaker Olivier Gondry.

  • Readymade Shorts

    Don’t really know what to expect from this, but might be worth a look. As reported by Patrick: Nomoto Karia will have a series of daily very short films viewable for free on the columbia*readymade site. The first film will appear on October 10 at 0:00 and will change everyday! Archives will not be kept,…

  • 14 Days

    I’ve made no secret that I’m a huge James Bond fan, and in anticipation of the upcoming CASINO ROYALE — the first James Bond film in ages that has me really excited — I’ve recently started watching the entire series again (I have the complete collection in both VHS and DVD — and how nice…

  • Next on the Plate for Hayao Miyazaki

    Fans of Miyazaki, prepare to get excited: According to the Ghibli Production Diary, the storyboards for Hayao Miyazaki’s next movie have been completed and have been distributed to the main production staff. Animation production will begin this coming week. The storyboards for this project are notable because they were created in watercolor and the copies…

  • The Fist of Asuka

    Asuka Shimizu will kick your ass! Link via Tokyomango.

  • New Evangelion Films

    Not one, not two, no, not even three, how about four new Evangelion films! According to the October issue of Newtype (Japan) (On sale September 10), four new Evangelion movies are in the works. The four movies will include a prequel, a mid-series movie, a sequel and a “final” movie. The prequel movie is due…

  • 46-Oku-Nen no Koi

    THE JAPAN TIMES has an interesting review of Takashi Miike’s latest film, 46-OKU-NEN NO KOI, in which Mark Schilling addresses the changes in the director’s recent works. Admittedly, I haven’t seen any of his recent films, the latest one being IZO, and I was only able to get through half of that.

  • Tokyo Hectic

    Time-lapse video of busy Tokyo, set to a track by the Teriyaki Boyz. Link via Boing Boing.

  • Shots

    If you weren’t able to make it to the “Shots” party last week at SuperDeluxe, PingMag has got you covered.

  • Inspired 2006

    Let me start off by saying I have absolutely no problem with sponsored/curated competitions of this kind. If Getty Images wants to support new works by artists, then I’m all for it. That being said, here are the details for “Inspired 2006” (from Shift Blog): “Getty images Japan” carries out a film competition “Inspired 2006”…