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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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About Author: Paul Kazee
Posts by Paul Kazee
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2017 Capitolfest: Fay Wray, short films and much more
Paul KazeePosted on August 27, 2017 | No CommentsFay Wray was the featured star at this year's Capitolfest. Audiences were delighted to learn that her daughter would be the festival's very special guest. -
“Train to Busan” (부산행) – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on August 2, 2016 | No CommentsCritics have been nearly unanimous in calling "Train to Busan" one of the best zombie flicks in years, and while it is that, it also has glaring flaws. -
“Under the Shadow” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 29, 2016 | No CommentsWhile "Under the Shadow" may work better as political allegory than as horror, it is not without its effective supernatural scares. -
Spoken Word: Grady Hendrix’s “Summerland Lost: A Ghost Story in Progress” – 2016 Fantasia Film Festival
Paul KazeePosted on July 27, 2016 | No CommentsAmong the author's latest creations is a spoken word piece detailing the history of Spiritualism in the U.S., starting with the Fox sisters in 1848. -
“I, Olga Hepnarová” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 23, 2016 | No CommentsNeither justifying or condemning her, "I, Olga Hepnarová" simply observes a lonely, alienated woman - the last woman to be executed in Czechoslovakia. -
Agnieszka Smoczynska’s “The Lure” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 20, 2016 | No CommentsIf you watch only one mermaid musical in your lifetime, please let it be "The Lure," which is pretty much the best movie in the world for its first half. -
Marcin Wrona’s “Demon” – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 17, 2016 | No CommentsWith roots in the Jewish myth of the Dybbuk, the ghost who clings to a human victim in "Demon" is of a young Jewish woman who vanished during World War II. -
Guillermo del Toro talks about his love for Fantasia
Paul KazeePosted on July 16, 2016 | No CommentsDirector Guillermo del Toro ("Pan's Labyrinth," "Pacific Rim") arrived at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal to a packed schedule. -
Fantasia 2016: “Antibirth,” “A Conspiracy of Faith,” “Rupture”
Paul KazeePosted on July 16, 2016 | No CommentsNatasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny are spot on "Antibirth;" "A Conspiracy of Faith" can't quite find the truth; and Noomi Rapace shines in a flawed "Rupture." -
“King Dave” – 2016 Fantasia International Film Festival Review
Paul KazeePosted on July 15, 2016 | No CommentsWhat makes "King Dave" truly amazing is not just that it's a single take, but rather, it's what director Podz manages to fit into the frame.