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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: Thospol Siriwiwat and Piraphan Laoyont’s “Sick Nurses”
Christopher BournePosted on September 30, 2011 | No CommentsThe Thai horror film "Sick Nurses" is a series of murderous set pieces executed with an impressive flair for luridly-colored visuals and sharp editing. -
Singafest 2011: Interview with “Savasana” director Gerry Curtis
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsThe 18-minute “Savasana” was directed and written by Gerry Curtis, who left a successful career in sales and marketing behind to pursue filmmaking. -
![After their Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men, and its attendant raft of rapturous critical notices and multiple Oscars, the Coen Brothers returned to high farcical mode with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Burn-After-Reading-115x115.jpg "Review: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Burn After Reading”")
Review: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Burn After Reading”
Christopher BournePosted on September 23, 2011 | No CommentsAfter their Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men, and its attendant raft of rapturous critical notices and multiple Oscars, the Coen Brothers returned to high farcical mode with […] -
![Repast (1951), Mikio Naruse’s first adaptation of the work of celebrated Japanese novelist Fumiko Hayashi, is one of his very finest films, a deceptively simple examination of a troubled marriage, told […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Repast-2-115x115.png "Review: Mikio Naruse’s “Repast”")
Review: Mikio Naruse’s “Repast”
Christopher BournePosted on September 16, 2011 | No CommentsRepast (1951), Mikio Naruse’s first adaptation of the work of celebrated Japanese novelist Fumiko Hayashi, is one of his very finest films, a deceptively simple examination of a troubled marriage, told […] -
![Bruno Dumont’s 2006 film, Flanders, a return to form after his failed US-set experiment, Twentynine Palms, returned Dumont to his familiar milieu of raw sex and violence told with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Bruno Dumont’s “Flanders”")
Review: Bruno Dumont’s “Flanders”
Christopher BournePosted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsBruno Dumont’s 2006 film, Flanders, a return to form after his failed US-set experiment, Twentynine Palms, returned Dumont to his familiar milieu of raw sex and violence told with […] -
Review: Herman Yau’s “Whispers and Moans”
Christopher BournePosted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsDespite its title, Herman Yau’s "Whispers and Moans" is an un-romanticized depiction of the lives of several prostitutes who work out of a hostess club. -
![Yelling to the Sky, actress-turned-director Victoria Mahoney’s debut feature, immediately sets up what we’re in for in its very first scene, that of its protagonist Sweetness (Zoe Kravitz) being beaten […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tumblr_lqisrzFPHD1qlaxkn-115x115.jpg "Review: Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”")
Review: Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”
Christopher BournePosted on August 26, 2011 | No CommentsYelling to the Sky, actress-turned-director Victoria Mahoney’s debut feature, immediately sets up what we’re in for in its very first scene, that of its protagonist Sweetness (Zoe Kravitz) being beaten […] -
![The opening moments of Scorsese’s first feature (1967) encapsulate the iconography/obsessions that would inform the rest of his career. Over sharp booming sounds that reverberate like the hand of God, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Knocking-at-My-Door-115x115.jpg "Review: Martin Scorsese’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door”")
Review: Martin Scorsese’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door”
Christopher BournePosted on August 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe opening moments of Scorsese’s first feature (1967) encapsulate the iconography/obsessions that would inform the rest of his career. Over sharp booming sounds that reverberate like the hand of God, […] -
![In an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/secret-sunshine-poster-115x115.jpg "Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”")
Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”
Christopher BournePosted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsIn an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […] -
![Lee Yoon-ki’s third feature Ad-Lib Night (2006), based on a short story by Japanese author Azuko Taira, is an intimate and beautifully observed drama which takes place, as per the title, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Ad-Lib-Night-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Yoon-ki’s “Ad-Lib Night”")
Review: Lee Yoon-ki’s “Ad-Lib Night”
Christopher BournePosted on August 19, 2011 | No CommentsLee Yoon-ki’s third feature Ad-Lib Night (2006), based on a short story by Japanese author Azuko Taira, is an intimate and beautifully observed drama which takes place, as per the title, […]