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Hard-boiled Recipe, Seigi no Yukue, Echigo Okumiomote Digital Remaster, Rajio Shimokojiro Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the second trailer post of the week. You can find the first post here. I’m taking a break this week, although I did a podcast recording for Heroic Purgatory about the Johnnie To films The Heroic Trio and Executioners (both released in 1993) which will get released some time nest week. I also hope to get a review of Inch Forward released by the end of this week. Outside of work, I am…

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Evil Does Not Exist, Inch Forward, Are you ready for a mindset that will never sell?, City Hunter, Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Kyoryuger, Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger vs. Donbrothers. Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the first of two trailer posts this week. The second trailer post comes tomorrow. I have managed to watch a film a day and have generally enjoyed all of them. I’ll continue coverage of Osaka while the next bunch of festivals are beginning to show their hands with Cannes announcing their selection, Nippon Connection dropping early highlights and Japan Cuts announcing dates! Expect…

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Pain of the Anonymous, Double Life, 94-sai no Gei, Tatsumi, Osaka Casino, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the second of two trailer posts this week. You can find the first post here. Well, I finished Bravely Default! I feel a review coming on because it was an enjoyable game. Even the final boss and all of that grinding. It’s a game all about the combat system, which is silky smooth, and the way that it makes everything convenient to get in and out of combat is really impressive. Now,…

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Amalock, Kiri no Fuchi   /   Beyond the Fog, Blue Lock: EPISODE Nagi, Onmyoji Zero, YOKOHAMA, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the first of two trailer posts of the week. The second trailer post arrives tomorrow. I’m coming to the final couple of boss battles in Bravely Default on the 3Ds and I’m eager to end the game. I’ve maxed out every class and got end-game weaponry and a nice class configuration for my characters. All that is left to do is a final dungeon and four boss battles. After that, Fire Emblem:…

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"To affirm everything happening and not reject was the rule of this film," Daisuke Miyazaki on harnessing the ideas of new talent and embracing randomness to make My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (2022)

Whenever I see the name Daisuke Miyazaki, I always take a look at what he is involved with. My first encounters with him were at the Osaka Asian Film Festival where his indie features have delighted and shown his command of various genre of film (Tourism – travelogue/comedy, Videophobia – horror/thriller, North Shinjuku 2055 – gangster/sci-fi). He has come off the back of a strong 2023 where he…

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (2022) Director: Daisuke Miyazaki

MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS    Release Date: March 29th, 2024 Duration: 69 mins. Director: Daisuke Miyazaki Writer: N/A Starring: Toki Miyoshi, Husen Akimoto, Kanon Kobayashi, Misaki Yatabe, Reo, Akito Imai, Website Twitter: @MYLIFE_GHOSTS MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS is quite a title and it is hard to imagine what sort of story it contains. It turns out it isn’t one story. It is a…

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Make-Believers, Ketsudan Unmei o Kaeta 3.11 Boshi Hinan, Kouin, Koza Mama Utatte! Koza no Mama-san!!, Nichi Nichi Geijutsu, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the second trailer post of the week. You can find the first post here. I have got back into the movie groove and found myself watching two a day. Mostly low-budget horror films from the early 2000s but some major mid-90s Hollywood ones thrown into the mix. I have started watching the new Fallout series on Amazon and will pin Twin Peaks on at the end. On top of western films, I have…

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Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram, The Yangtze River, Kuramerukagari, Kurayukaba, Himuro Renji, Fromage Japonais, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the first of two trailer posts this week The second one will follow later today I’m nearing the end of Bravely Default and grinding out Job Points for a couple of the last two jobs before hitting the final bosses. The game was easy to play and had nice visuals but the roster of characters and character designs didn’t quite grab me despite good writing so I was not invested in the…

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Early Announcements for Nippon Connection 2024

Nippon Connection 2024 is just around the corner and an early selection of films has been made available. The festival takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from May 28 to June 2 and for six days festivalgoers will be able to sample the delights of around 100 short and feature-length films at eight venues, many of which will be German, European and international premieres. Alongside the…

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Performing KAORU’s Funeral カオルの葬式 Director: Noriko Yuasa [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024] Second Draft

Performing KAORU’s Funeral      カオルの葬式    「Kaoru no Soshiki」   Release Date: 2024 Duration: 100 mins. Director: Noriko Yuasa Writer: Takato Nishi, Noriko Yuasa (Screenplay), Starring: Koji Seki, Kano Ichiki, Chise Niitsu, Asuka Kurosawa, Daijiro Harada, Tomomitsu Adachi, Website    IMDB In life, you can never truly know another person. That same notion applies even more in death and once a person…

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"Life, Living Desperately,": Noriko Yuasa on Making Performing KAORU’s Funeral カオルの葬式 and How it, as a Film, is a Mirror to Society [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 Interview]

I was convinced of Noriko Yuasa’s talent at my first brush with it at Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) 2018 with her short Ordinary Everyday and have only become more convinced as I have travelled through her other shorts, from Looking For My Lost Sunflowers (2014) to Girl, Wavering (2015) and Coming Back Sunny (2019) – for which  I interviewed her. She’s a great filmmaker with complete control…

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Doku Musume, GekixCine Tengohsei, Cinema Kabuki Touken Ranbu: Tsuki no Tsurugi Enishi no Kiri no wa, Normal Seventeen, A Trout in the Milk, Ripples of Physis, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the one and only trailer post for this week. This is the only post for this week, actually. I decided to stick to one post to arrange an interview and review as I draw a pretty intense period of coverage for the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 to a close. In years gone by, I tend to spread out the writing/publication because I am usually travelling across Japan and also balancing my…

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Doku Musume, GekixCine Tengohsei, Cinema Kabuki Touken Ranbu: Tsuki no Tsurugi Enishi no Kiri no wa, Normal Seventeen, A Trout in the Milk, Ripples of Physis, Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the one and only trailer post for this week. This is the only post for this week, actually. I decided to stick to one post to arrange an interview and review as I draw a pretty intense period of coverage for the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 to a close. In years gone by, I tend to spread out the writing/publication because I am usually travelling across Japan and also balancing my…

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“I wanted to evoke an experience for the audience akin to reading ancient Chinese travelogues” Lin Yihan on the making of her short Sojourn to Shangri-la 是日访古 [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 Interview]

Sojourn to Shangri-la tells the story of a fashion shoot on a beach that goes awry as an installation that was built as the backdrop for models disappears into the sea. A young assistant art director named Cal (Fu Yunfei) sets out to rescue it and get the shoot back on track. What starts out like a farce soon becomes a fantasy as Cal explores the shooting location and uses tools like a camera…

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Sojourn to Shangri-la 是日访古 Director: Lin Yihan [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Sojourn to Shangri-la  是日访古 「Shi ri fang gu」 Release Date: 2024 Duration: 19 mins. Director: Lin Yihan Writer: Lin Yihan (Screenplay), Starring: Fu Yunfei, Website IMDB Lin Yihan’s short Sojourn to Shangri-la starts out as a workplace comedy where a fashion shoot falls apart after an elaborate beach-side structure, from which a model was meant to emerge, vanishes into the sea. Then it turns into…

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Gekijouban Kaijuu wa Osotte Kurenai, MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS, Watashi no Kaasan Tenshi no Uta, Toritsukushima Japanese Film Trailers

Welcome to the second of two trailer posts You can find the first one here. One post this week (so far) and that’s an interview with Ikunosuke Okazaki on his film Wash Away. I have a review and interview due out tomorrow but wanted time to work on it while giving the trailers enough of a gap before the films get released. Next week will just be reviews, probably! I’m watching and reading a lot…

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Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya Jihen Blu-ray & DVD4-kan & 5-kan Hatsubai Kinen Serekushon Ibento Joei, FPS, Ishioka TARO, Asa o Sagashite, Japanese Film Trailers

Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya Jihen Blu-ray & DVD4-kan & 5-kan Hatsubai Kinen Serekushon Ibento Joei        呪術廻戦「渋谷事変」 Blu-ray＆DVD 4巻＆5巻発売記念　セレクションイベント上映　「Jujutsu Kaisen Shibuya Jihen Blu-ray & DVD4-kan & 5-kan Hatsubai Kinen Serekushon Ibento Joei」 Release Date: March 22nd, 2024 Duration: 89 mins Director: Shota Goshozono Writer: Hiroshi Seko (Series Composition/Screenplay), Gege Akutami (Original…