Category: Japanese Film Festival
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JFF15 Review: Arrietty
JFF15 REVIEW: We begin our coverage of the 15th Japanese Film Festival with Studio Ghibli’s latest masterpiece.
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15th Japanese Film Festival Reveals Full Program and guests
NEWS: The Japanese Film Festival announces its 15th full program, with festival guests director Hideyuki Hirayama and star Yutaka Takenouchi.
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15th Japanese Film Festival adds ‘Arrietty’, ‘Space Battleship Yamato’ and more
NEWS: The 15th Japanese Film Festival opens tonight in Adelaide, and the lineup just keeps getting better and better.
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15th Japanese Film Festival adds ‘Ninja Kids!!!’,’In His Chart’ and ‘Star Watching Dog’
FESTIVAL NEWS: JFF15 can now add three more titles to that list: Takashi Miike’s Ninja Kids!!!, Yoshihiro Fukagawa’s In His Chart and Tomoyuki Takimoto’s adorable-looking Star Watching Dog along with Perth, Brisbane and Canberra dates.
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First Look: 15th Japanese Film Festival
NEWS: Following the massive success of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in 2010, the Japan Foundation has announced that the 15th Japanese Film Festival will be even bigger than the previous one with Australian premieres of GANTZ, The Last Ronin and more!
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Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
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 best that Japanese cinema has to offer us. Is Post Festival Displacement (PFD) a treatable disorder, and if so, can we claim it on Medicare? With…
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A Lone Scalpel (Japanese Film Festival 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 from brain-dead patients in Japan, where brain-death was not legally recognised for a number of years, it is the second film in the festival (after Dear Doctor)…
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Sword of Desperation (Japanese Film Festival 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 jidai-geki, or period dramas, and consist of films largely set in the Edo Period of Japan (1603 – 1868), with samurai cinema such as Rashomon,…
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The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones (Japanese Film Festival)
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 kind of madness, but apparently they didn’t have the Internet in those days either. (It’s ok, we can say what we like about them here: they’ll…
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Box! (Japanese Film Festival 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 at the Japanese Film Festival in Feel the Wind, two if you count the competition performance calligraphy of Shodo Girls, both of which featured the underdog…
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