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  • I Heart T(N)YO

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    See Momus experience Tokyo-love in New York. I second his recommendation of Katsuhito Ishii’s THE TASTE OF TEA — I loved it dearly when I saw it a few weeks ago (and even mentioned it in this Gridskipper post).

  • Festival du Film Francais Yokohama

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    If you don’t mind heading out to Yokohama, then take note that this year’s edition of the Festival du Film Francais is happening this week. I wouldn’t mind seeing LES POUPEES RUSSES. With master director Costa-Gavras as its organising committee’s president, this festival introduces in 19 programs (18 feature films plus one short film special)…

  • Hot Time in the City

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    Writer and Japanese cult-film otaku Patrick Macias (CRUISING THE ANIME CITY, TOKYOSCOPE) has just moved to Tokyo, and he’s chronicling it on his blog.

  • Flashback/Flashforward

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    I was recently sent word of the following FILMeX produced film event, which I wrote about on Gridskipper yesterday: Following yesterday’s film festival posts, here’s something you might want to check out if in Tokyo this month. The FILMeX group will organize a three-day film screening (June 24-26) at the Japan Foundation Forum in Akasaka.…

  • Midnight Eye May Update

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    The excellent Japanese film site Midnight Eye has just posted a new update and it includes: an interview with Go Shibata, a feature on Rokuro Mochizuki, a few reviews (LATE BLOOMER, THE SOUP ONE MORNING, THE FACE OF ANOTHER), and a round-up of recent DVD releases. And if you haven’t already, you really should pick…

  • Pink Ribbon

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    Oh, I definitely want to catch this. Not only is it playing at Uplink X, the smaller venue that opened last year that I still haven’t checked out, but it’s showing with English subs — cheers to the Uplink people! With special screenings for women for example, “pink” (=erotic) movies nowadays attract a different audience…

  • Mayonaka no Yajisan Kitasan

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    The film looks like fun, and now comes this exhibition to help celebrate it: The genial writer Kankuro Kudo and the charismatic manga artist Shiriagarikotobuki present the movie exhibition “Mayonaka no Yajisan Kitasan”, featuring:
- the costumes and stage elements used in the play
- a reenactment of the famous “Oni no gojusanji” scene, a complex mix…

  • Mikako Ichikawa

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    I’m finding myself strangely attracted to Mikako Ichikawa, and I’m not quite sure why. Even though she played a nerdy sidekick to hyper-sexy Eriko Sato in CUTIE HONEY, I thought she was the best thing in the film. Today I watched the anthology film JAM FILMS 2 (quite a step up from the first one,…

  • Filming the Monster

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    Looks like Naoki Urasawa’s MONSTER is going to be turned into a live-action Hollywood film. Link via Paul.

  • When Masters Were Young

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    English subs! English subs! English subs! This is volume two of the “Masters of the Japanese Cinema” series, part one of which enjoyed great popularity especially among foreign fans of Japanese film in June 2004. Again offering an attractive set of movies shown with English subtitles, the program this time is made up of Ichikawa…