September 2010
10 posts
August 2010
19 posts
TokyoScope Talk Vol. 6 - Bad Girls & Wild Women
… at NEW PEOPLE’s VIZ CINEMA in San Francisco on Monday, September 9th.
This will be the 6th in the TokyoScope Talk series and the focus this time is on BAD GIRLS & WILD WOMEN in Japanese cinema.
Also, this event will be part of the J-Pop Summit 2010 at NEW PEOPLE. As such, this will be a “TokyoScope Talk Deluxe” presentation, including V.I.P. reception (food and drink...
R.I.P. Satoshi Kon, 1963-2010
We would like to pay our respects to visionary Japanese animation director Satoshi Kon, who passed away on the morning of August 24 from pancreatic cancer. On that occasion, we wish to celebrate the exceptional body of work he leaves to posterity: his four feature films, Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), Tokyo Godfathers (2003) and Paprika (2006), which was screened as part of the...
WatchOn our watchlist: Fumihiko Sori’s film ASHITA NO JOE, which will be released in Feburary 2011 in Japan. It stars Teruyuki Kagawa (SWAY, GOLDEN SLUMBER) and Yusuke Iseya (CASSHERN, Sukiyaki Western: Django).
… hoping for the best (but expecting the worst… who knows?)
Teaser from Nippon Cinema.
Japanese Film Festival Singapore 2010 |...
Starting today…
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Japanese Film Festival Singapore 2010
19-29 August
Here are the list of films that I would like to watch. Visit
http://sfs.org.sg/japanesefilmfestival/jff2010/index.html for more details.
(All information and images are taken from the official site shown above.)
Fish Story (PG)
Fri 20 Aug 930pm
2009, 112 min, Colour, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, PG...
New Monthly Classics: Zen and Its Opposite
The new line-up will be up soon…
We’ll start with Kobayashi’s KWAIDAN on October 15.
Miike's Thirteen Assassins
A preview screening of Takashi Miike’s Thirteen Assasins, a remake of Eiichi Kudo’s 1963 black-and-white film, was held in Tokyo today, August 17, 2010. The film will be released theatrically in the country in September.
The film has a bunch of stars: Koji Yakusho (Memories of a Geisha, Shall We Dance?), Hiroki Matsukata (Battles Without Honor and Humanity) and Takayuki Yamada...
Japan's porn stars make their way in the real... →
Diner, Glasses...and Toilet.
After the success of Kamome Diner (screened at Japan Cuts 2007) and Megane, Naoko Ogigami has gained quite a following (and rightly so…). Her much anticipated new film Toilet will hit Japanese theaters at the end of this month, for a limited release/run (unfortunately).
After their mother passes away, three siblings try to cope and move in together with their Japanese grandmother… who can’t...
What Else Was Lost in Translation →
youmightfindyourself:
It doesn’t take much to figure out that “Lost in Translation,” the title of Sofia Coppola’s elegiac new film about two lonely American souls in Tokyo, means more than one thing. There is the cultural dislocation felt by Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a washed-up movie actor, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young wife trying to find herself. They are also lost in their...
