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Japan Society Announces Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years

Japan Society announce Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years, running February 7-14, 2025. The teenage symphonies of Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) are wound in a melancholy nostalgia for a period indelibly lost to time, neatly occupying the inexpressible gap between adolescence and adulthood. Woven through visually expressive fantasias with striking formal experimentation and pop-art boldness, Obayashi’s idiosyncratic…

Nobuhiro Hosoki
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‘Day of the Fight’ : Press Conference with Director Jack Huston & Actor Michael Pitt
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‘Day of the Fight’ : Press Conference with Director Jack Huston & Actor Michael Pitt

@Courtesy of Productivity Media  Day of the Fight : On the day of his first fight since leaving prison, Mikey, once champion boxer, takes a redemptive journey through his past. As Mikey prepares for the most important fight of his life, he reconnects with the people he was closest to and tries to make things…

Adriano Ercolani
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‘Hard Truths’ Filmmaker Mike Leigh on Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste For Their Character Study (Video Interview)
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‘Hard Truths’ Filmmaker Mike Leigh on Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste For Their Character Study (Video Interview)

For more than 50 years and over the course of 15 films, filmmaker Mike Leigh has become one of the most respected and praised British filmmakers with seven Oscar nominations – five for his screenplays, two for his direction – as well as 13 BAFTA nominations, winning two and receiving two special BAFTA honors. That’s…

Edward Douglas
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Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics. The documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin“, which chronicles the origins and rise of the iconic English rock band, is being released on the big screen in 2021 by Sony Pictures Classics. “Becoming Led Zeppelin” explores their origins with never-before-seen footage and commentary from the notoriously private band, consisting of Robert Plant,…

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©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Universal Pictures has dropped a new featurette for Christopher Abbott‘s “horrifying” new look of Wolf Man which will open Jan. 17 in theaters. Produced by Blumhouse, this a fresh update on the classic furry Universal Monster originally invented in the 1941 film The Wolf Man. The video focuses on how director Leigh Whannell…

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‘Hard Truths’ Filmmaker Mike Leigh on Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste For Their Character Study (Video Interview)

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Japan Society Announces Obayashi ’80s: The Onomichi Trilogy & Kadokawa Years

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Chicago Japan Film Collective : Check Out the Line Up and Get Discounts For Online Streaming!

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©Courtesy of Netflix If in the Western hemisphere Louisa May Alcott described sisterhood through her 19th century novel Little Women — and its sequels Good Wives, Little Men and Jo’s Boys — in the Eastern part of the world, a compelling TV series delves into the intricacies of female siblings. Asura is the new Netflix…

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Oshi no Ko Executes Both Sugary-Sweet J-pop & Sinister Suspense at Equally High Levels
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©Courtesy of Amazon  The business of cuteness sure can get ugly. Just ask the secret children of Japanese idol Ai Hoshino—make that the late Japanese idol. She was murdered by a psycho-stalker calling himself a “fan.” Despite their deceptively young ages, her son Aquamarine (Aqua) and daughter Ruby were already no strangers to tragedy. Somehow,…

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