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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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Film Review: So Yong Kim’s “Treeless Mountain”
Christopher BournePosted on March 2, 2012 | No CommentsSo Yong Kim's ineffably lovely second feature "Treeless Mountain" focuses on two sisters and their increasingly precarious existence. -
![Shinya Tsukamoto’s beautiful film Vital (2004), one of the great highlights of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” continues his filmic exploration of the human […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vital_8-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Vital”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Vital”
Christopher BournePosted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsShinya Tsukamoto’s beautiful film Vital (2004), one of the great highlights of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” continues his filmic exploration of the human […] -
DPRK Film Reviews: “Bellflower,” “My Look in the Distant Future”
Christopher BournePosted on February 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe melodramatic sugar makes the ideological medicine go down in "Bellflower." "My Look in the Distant Future" exhorts its viewers to look to the future. -
Review: Andrea Arnold’s “Red Road”
Christopher BournePosted on February 17, 2012 | No CommentsAndrea Arnold’s debut film "Red Road" is equal parts "Rear Window" and "Blow-Up," updated with evocations of post-9/11 surveillance. -
![Bela Tarr’s second feature The Outsider (1981), which recently screened as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Tarr retrospective “The Last Modernist,” right at the outset […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The+Outsider-115x115.jpg "Review: Bela Tarr’s “The Outsider”")
Review: Bela Tarr’s “The Outsider”
Christopher BournePosted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsBela Tarr’s second feature The Outsider (1981), which recently screened as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Tarr retrospective “The Last Modernist,” right at the outset […] -
Review: Park Jin-pyo’s “Voice of a Murderer”
Christopher BournePosted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe chilling docudrama Voice of a Murderer is one of the best films by Park Jin-pyo, one of Korea’s most interesting directors. His previous features Too Young to Die […] -
![Nishi Ginza Station (1958) was Imamura’s second film, a studio assignment made as a vehicle for popular singer Frank Nagai. Imamura was able to use this as a vehicle for […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/nishiginza_Large-115x115.jpg "Review: Shohei Imamura’s “Nishi Ginza Station”")
Review: Shohei Imamura’s “Nishi Ginza Station”
Christopher BournePosted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsNishi Ginza Station (1958) was Imamura’s second film, a studio assignment made as a vehicle for popular singer Frank Nagai. Imamura was able to use this as a vehicle for […] -
Film Review: Wong Kar-wai’s “My Blueberry Nights”
Christopher BournePosted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsWhile "My Blueberry Nights" is not Wong's best film, it is a beautiful piece of work that finds his patented Wong style successfully transplanted to the US. -
Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Retribution”
Christopher BournePosted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsKiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the most consistently interesting stylists in Japanese cinema. His films can be superficially associated with the “J-Horror” genre, but anyone familiar with his work […] -
Film Review: Lixin Fan’s “Last Train Home”
Christopher BournePosted on January 20, 2012 | No CommentsEvery winter in China, 130 million migrant workers make the trek home for Chinese New Year - startling images in Lixin Fan's documentary "Last Train Home."