Tag: Japan
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Hanamizuki (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
We’ve had a variety of inspirations for this year’s entries in the Japanese Film Festival – a novel (Feel the Wind), a manga (Solanin), a true story of calligraphy performance (Shodo Girls) and a 1960s Kon Ichikawa film (About Her Brother) – but Hanamizuki may be the first film based on a pop song. At…
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Japanese Film Festival 2010: Opening Night
On a steamy spring night in Sydney town, the 14th Japanese Film Festival officially opened at the Regent on George Street. As we were reminded in an opening address, this festival keeps growing every year, from the humble beginnings of 5 films and 500 guests to this year’s 21 films and almost 10,000 guests around…
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Solanin (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
REVIEW: Too young to hold on, and too old to just break free and run
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Shodo Girls (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
The thing that has always excites me about cinema is that I am constantly learning new things. Prior to Shodo Girls, I had no idea that there was such a thing as competition performance calligraphy. Yes, the gentle art of fancy lettering is a no-holds-barred bloodletting that gets pretty fierce. Plus, it’s all based on a…
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Feel the Wind (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
“Through the training and the experience, each member finds their inner strength and the joy of feeling the wind.”
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ReelAnime: Summer Wars
REVIEW: One of the best anime films, or any kind of family films, in years.
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ReelAnime: Redline
Showcasing some of the best Japanese animation of the last few years, the Reel Anime Festival has managed to put together a fine selection of films this year. Indeed, Redline has not even been released in Japan yet, with only the Swiss Lorcano International Film Festival pipping Australia to the post on screening this first globally.…
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ReelAnime: King of Thorn
The Reel Anime Festival is currently playing at cinemas around Australia and New Zealand, showcasing some of the best Japanese animation of the last few years. One of the big acquisitions of the festival in 2010 is King of Thorn, based on the serialised manga by Yūji Iwahara (Chikyu Misakai) and released theatrically in Japan…
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Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
Fifteen years after creator Hideaki Anno and Studio Gainax attempted to put the final word on the giant robot genre, Evangelion is still going. Neon Genesis Evangelion, the television show that turned a generation of viewers onto the wonders of Japanese anime, continues to hold a place in the hearts of many anime viewers. This…
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