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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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Film Archive
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Review: Chris Martinez’s “100”
Christopher BournePosted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsIn Chris Martinez's debut "100," a woman about to die from cancer follows a series of Post-Its that detail what she wishes to accomplish before she passes. -
Review: Wayne Wang’s “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers”
Christopher BournePosted on April 6, 2012 | No Comments"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," based on a Yiyun Li short story, is one half of a diptych conceived by Wayne Wang as a return to his indie-film roots. -
![Alejandro Landes’ second film, “Porfirio,” is a very unusual sort of biopic. It is a minimalist, minutely detailed and observational portrait of its title subject that richly mines the sometimes […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/porfirio-still-115x115.jpg "Alejandro Landes’ “Porfirio” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review")
Alejandro Landes’ “Porfirio” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review
Christopher BournePosted on March 31, 2012 | No CommentsAlejandro Landes’ second film, “Porfirio,” is a very unusual sort of biopic. It is a minimalist, minutely detailed and observational portrait of its title subject that richly mines the sometimes […] -
![“Now, Forager” was created as a conscious corrective to other food-based films that co-directors Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin felt were overly romantic and inaccurate in culinary terms. Here, they […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NowForager-still-115x115.jpg "Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin’s “Now, Forager” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review")
Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin’s “Now, Forager” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review
Christopher BournePosted on March 31, 2012 | No Comments“Now, Forager” was created as a conscious corrective to other food-based films that co-directors Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin felt were overly romantic and inaccurate in culinary terms. Here, they […] -
![Lee Chung-ryoul’s documentary Old Partner was a surprise hit in Korea in 2009, expanding through word of mouth from an initial release on seven screens to becoming number one […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Old+Partner-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Chung-ryoul’s “Old Partner”")
Review: Lee Chung-ryoul’s “Old Partner”
Christopher BournePosted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsLee Chung-ryoul’s documentary Old Partner was a surprise hit in Korea in 2009, expanding through word of mouth from an initial release on seven screens to becoming number one […] -
Review: Kim Ki-duk’s “Real Fiction”
Christopher BournePosted on March 23, 2012 | No Comments"Real Fiction," shot in 200 minutes using ten 35mm cameras and two DV camcorders, was conceived as an experiment, and it’s not an entirely successful one. -
Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “The Happy Life”
Christopher BournePosted on March 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe title of Lee Joon-ik’s The Happy Life at first seems like a bitterly ironic jape, since the lives we see on display seem to be anything but. Ki-young (Jung Jin-young), […] -
Review: John Carney’s “Once”
Christopher BournePosted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsA small film in the greatest sense of the word, Once is a musical of a different kind. Appropriately, since the film’s songs are its core, Once is musical in […] -
![One of my favorite recent Japanese films is the complex crime drama/lovers-on-the-run story Villain, screening as part of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Below is what I […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AC_Villain_악인_ST4-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Lee Sang-il’s “Villain”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Lee Sang-il’s “Villain”
Christopher BournePosted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsOne of my favorite recent Japanese films is the complex crime drama/lovers-on-the-run story Villain, screening as part of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Below is what I […] -
![Tale of Cinema, Hong’s sixth feature, is an incredibly witty and playful meditation on the confluence of life and cinema. Over the course of twelve films, Hong has […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TaleOfCinema_01-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”
Christopher BournePosted on March 7, 2012 | No CommentsTale of Cinema, Hong’s sixth feature, is an incredibly witty and playful meditation on the confluence of life and cinema. Over the course of twelve films, Hong has […]