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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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2011 African Diaspora International Film Festival Review Round-up
Christopher BournePosted on November 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe 19th edition screens in New York from November 25 through December 13, 2011. -
![A mystery without a solution, A Man Vanishes (1967) is a fascinating study of the eminently collapsible boundary between reality and artifice. More precisely, it suggests that what we […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Shohei Imamura’s “A Man Vanishes”")
Review: Shohei Imamura’s “A Man Vanishes”
Christopher BournePosted on November 25, 2011 | No CommentsA mystery without a solution, A Man Vanishes (1967) is a fascinating study of the eminently collapsible boundary between reality and artifice. More precisely, it suggests that what we […] -
Review: Jia Zhang-ke’s “Still Life”
Christopher BournePosted on November 18, 2011 | No CommentsMemory of what is rapidly being lost is one of the many eloquent themes in "Still Life." The loss of the past is what links the two non-converging stories. -
![Tan Chui Mui’s remarkable debut feature Love Conquers All (2006) is a beautiful, unsettling, baffling, and subtly surreal work that confirms the considerable talent to be found in contemporary Malaysian cinema. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Love-Conquers-All-2-115x115.jpg "Review: Tan Chui Mui’s “Love Conquers All”")
Review: Tan Chui Mui’s “Love Conquers All”
Christopher BournePosted on November 11, 2011 | No CommentsTan Chui Mui’s remarkable debut feature Love Conquers All (2006) is a beautiful, unsettling, baffling, and subtly surreal work that confirms the considerable talent to be found in contemporary Malaysian cinema. […] -
![One of the best, and certainly most visually impressive, cinematic depictions of the Korean War, Spring in My Hometown (1998) takes a very different approach from other films on this subject. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Spring-in-My-Hometown-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Kwang-mo’s “Spring in My Hometown”")
Review: Lee Kwang-mo’s “Spring in My Hometown”
Christopher BournePosted on November 4, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the best, and certainly most visually impressive, cinematic depictions of the Korean War, Spring in My Hometown (1998) takes a very different approach from other films on this subject. […] -
Review: Risa Morimoto’s “Wings of Defeat”
Christopher BournePosted on October 28, 2011 | No Comments"Wings of Defeat" sheds valuable light on one of the most notorious yet least understood aspects of World War II, the Japanese pilots known as kamikaze. -
![At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, L’Humanité, along with the top prizewinner, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Rosetta, was one of The Little French Films That Could, coming from seemingly […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/LHumanite-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Bruno Dumont’s “L’Humanité”")
Review: Bruno Dumont’s “L’Humanité”
Christopher BournePosted on October 21, 2011 | No CommentsAt the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, L’Humanité, along with the top prizewinner, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s Rosetta, was one of The Little French Films That Could, coming from seemingly […] -
![Shin Sang-ok’s 1960 feature A Romantic Papa was the first production from his newly established company, Shin Films. Shin had already established himself as one of the most […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Romantic+Papa+001_0001-115x115.jpg "Review: Shin Sang-ok’s “A Romantic Papa”")
Review: Shin Sang-ok’s “A Romantic Papa”
Christopher BournePosted on October 14, 2011 | No CommentsShin Sang-ok’s 1960 feature A Romantic Papa was the first production from his newly established company, Shin Films. Shin had already established himself as one of the most […] -
Film Review: Buichi Saito’s “Plains Wanderer”
Christopher BournePosted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsBuichi Saito’s 1960 feature "Plains Wanderer" is a sterling example of the “Eastern Western” genre, a popular staple of Nikkatsu action films. -
![“Carnage,” the latest from Roman Polanski, which opens this year’s New York Film Festival, may be as slight as its running time (a mere 80 minutes), but it is well […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/still-115x115.jpg "Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” – 2011 New York Film Festival Review")
Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” – 2011 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 30, 2011 | No Comments“Carnage,” the latest from Roman Polanski, which opens this year’s New York Film Festival, may be as slight as its running time (a mere 80 minutes), but it is well […]