Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
December 2, 2010
It has been half a week since the end of the Sydney leg of 14th Japanese Film Festival, and we’re slowly coming down off the dizzying heights of the …
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A Lone Scalpel (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
December 1, 2010
The Closing Night of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in Sydney is an adaptation of Doctor Toshihiko Oogane’s bestselling novel. Drawing on the controversial topic of human organ transplant …
Sword of Desperation (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 30, 2010
The history of Japanese cinema has long been defined into a number of key genres that reflect the history of Japan itself. Arguably the most famous of these is …
The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones (Japanese Film Festival)
November 29, 2010
Prior to the availability of handheld GPS, people used to rely on these things called maps and surveying to find their way around the world. It sounds like some …
Box! (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 29, 2010
Sport films tend to follow a fairly standard pattern, and are always good for a bit heart-string pulling in the audience. We’ve already had one sports film this year …
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 29, 2010
Production I.G. has always been a ground-breaker in the Japanese animation industry. Indeed, Production I.G. was the first company to film a series almost entirely in English with Japanese subtitles to …
Villon’s Wife (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 29, 2010
Based on the semi-autobiographical Osamu Dazai novel Villon no Tsuma.
Confessions (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 28, 2010
There has been a fair amount of hype surrounding Confessions (告白), the latest film from Memories of Matsuko and Happy-Go-Lucky writer/director Tetsuya Nakashima. When it was released in Japan …
Flavor of Happiness (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 26, 2010
It’s hard to turn on the television these days without someone telling you how to cook. Buoyed by the wave of success that shows such as MasterChef and Japan’s …
Zero Focus (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
November 26, 2010
Based on the novel by Seicho Matsumoto, Zero Focus (ゼロの焦点) marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of that famous Japanese author. A prolific writer of mystery, historical and …