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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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Japan Archive
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![The title of Toshio Masuda’s 1967 film Like a Shooting Star aptly describes its main character, Goro (Tetsuya Watari), a cooler-than-thou gangster, who burns brightly and is gone just as fast. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SHOOTING_4-115x115.jpg "Review: Toshio Masuda’s “Like a Shooting Star”")
Review: Toshio Masuda’s “Like a Shooting Star”
Christopher BournePosted on July 15, 2011 | No CommentsThe title of Toshio Masuda’s 1967 film Like a Shooting Star aptly describes its main character, Goro (Tetsuya Watari), a cooler-than-thou gangster, who burns brightly and is gone just as fast. […] -
![The New York premiere of “Yakuza Weapon” on July 9 at the Japan Society welcomed four guests from the film: co-directors Tak Sakaguchi (坂口 拓) and Yudai Yamaguchi (山口 雄大); […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/tak-sakaguchi-115x115.jpg "“Yakuza Weapon” actor Tak Sakaguchi (坂口 拓), special guests attend New York premiere")
“Yakuza Weapon” actor Tak Sakaguchi (坂口 拓), special guests attend New York premiere
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe New York premiere of “Yakuza Weapon” on July 9 at the Japan Society welcomed four guests from the film: co-directors Tak Sakaguchi (坂口 拓) and Yudai Yamaguchi (山口 雄大); […] -
![A couple of films in the 2011 edition of Japan Cuts, North America’s largest annual Japanese film festival, examine the paths that kids take years after suffering traumatic childhood experiences. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ALiar2-115x115.jpg "Japan Cuts films explore the long-term effects of broken childhoods")
Japan Cuts films explore the long-term effects of broken childhoods
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 4, 2011 | No CommentsA couple of films in the 2011 edition of Japan Cuts, North America’s largest annual Japanese film festival, examine the paths that kids take years after suffering traumatic childhood experiences. […] -
Takayuki Yamada (山田孝之) Q&A – 2011 New York Asian Film Festival
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 4, 2011 | No CommentsJapanese actor Takayuki Yamada answers questions before the screening of "13 Assassins" at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival on July 2, 2011. -
![A story about an awkward, bespectacled boy trying to make his way through school, meet new friends and find his way through life sounds like a straightforward feel-good Disney kids’ […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/NinjaKids-115x115.jpg "Takashi Miike’s “Ninja Kids!!!” (忍たま乱太郎) – 2011 NYAFF and Japan Cuts Review")
Takashi Miike’s “Ninja Kids!!!” (忍たま乱太郎) – 2011 NYAFF and Japan Cuts Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on June 28, 2011 | No CommentsA story about an awkward, bespectacled boy trying to make his way through school, meet new friends and find his way through life sounds like a straightforward feel-good Disney kids’ […] -
![Yoshimasa Ishibashi is a video installation artist-turned-sketch comedy director whose best known creation is the 2000 television show “Vermillion Pleasure Night.” This program featured among its wacky sketches “Oh, Mikey!” […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Milocrorze_011-115x115.jpg "\"Milocrorze: A Love Story\" (ミロクローゼ) – 2011 NYAFF/Japan Cuts Festival Review")
"Milocrorze: A Love Story" (ミロクローゼ) – 2011 NYAFF/Japan Cuts Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsYoshimasa Ishibashi is a video installation artist-turned-sketch comedy director whose best known creation is the 2000 television show “Vermillion Pleasure Night.” This program featured among its wacky sketches “Oh, Mikey!” […] -
![Masahiro Kobayashi’s 2005 film Bashing takes as its inspiration the ostracism experienced by Japanese humanitarian workers in Iraq after surviving kidnapping there. The film’s protagonist, Yuko (played with quiet intensity by […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bashing+3-115x115.jpg "Review: Masahiro Kobayashi’s “Bashing”")
Review: Masahiro Kobayashi’s “Bashing”
Christopher BournePosted on June 24, 2011 | No CommentsMasahiro Kobayashi’s 2005 film Bashing takes as its inspiration the ostracism experienced by Japanese humanitarian workers in Iraq after surviving kidnapping there. The film’s protagonist, Yuko (played with quiet intensity by […] -
![Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios is best known for their wild, kinetic action films, especially those of Seijun Suzuki (Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill). However, there were a number of other directors […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Warped-Ones-115x115.jpg "Review: Koreyoshi Kurahara’s “The Warped Ones”")
Review: Koreyoshi Kurahara’s “The Warped Ones”
Christopher BournePosted on May 13, 2011 | No CommentsJapan’s Nikkatsu Studios is best known for their wild, kinetic action films, especially those of Seijun Suzuki (Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill). However, there were a number of other directors […] -
![There’s something to be said about going through life experiences on one’s own. Having other individuals squarely in the mix results in certain merits: the insights gained through conversation, the […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/still-115x115.jpg "“The Blessing Bell” (幸福の鐘) Review – A Retrospective of Sabu’s Works, Japan Society")
“The Blessing Bell” (幸福の鐘) Review – A Retrospective of Sabu’s Works, Japan Society
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on February 3, 2011 | No CommentsThere’s something to be said about going through life experiences on one’s own. Having other individuals squarely in the mix results in certain merits: the insights gained through conversation, the […] -
![What is the best way to describe a Sabu movie? Seemingly normal folks with a couple of eccentricities tossed in for good measure? Check. Scowling yakuza who aren’t always the […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/still1-115x115.jpg "Sabu’s “Troubleman” (トラブルマン) to make its international premiere at Japan Society")
Sabu’s “Troubleman” (トラブルマン) to make its international premiere at Japan Society
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on February 2, 2011 | No CommentsWhat is the best way to describe a Sabu movie? Seemingly normal folks with a couple of eccentricities tossed in for good measure? Check. Scowling yakuza who aren’t always the […]