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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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![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 […] -
“The Blade” (刀) – 2011 New York Asian Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on June 18, 2011 | No CommentsIn "The Blade," Tsui Hark recasts the wu xia film as a psychedelically fractured, cubist extravaganza. -
![Jinsa Maeng, the patriarch of a village household in the Chosun era, is obsessed with his social status and constantly schemes to elevate it. To this end, he arranges to […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Jinsa-Maeng-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Yong-min’s “A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng”")
Review: Lee Yong-min’s “A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng”
Christopher BournePosted on June 17, 2011 | No CommentsJinsa Maeng, the patriarch of a village household in the Chosun era, is obsessed with his social status and constantly schemes to elevate it. To this end, he arranges to […] -
![One of the most interesting things about Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking career, considering what an inimitable and uncompromising artist he is, is the fact that three of the nine […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Hole+1-115x115.png "Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Hole”")
Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “The Hole”
Christopher BournePosted on June 10, 2011 | No CommentsOne of the most interesting things about Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking career, considering what an inimitable and uncompromising artist he is, is the fact that three of the nine […] -
Film Review: Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s “Monrak Transistor”
Christopher BournePosted on June 3, 2011 | No CommentsThe musical "Monrak Transistor" tells the pathetic tale of Pan, an aspiring singer who, through poor choices and bad luck, is separated from his wife Sadaw. -
![Charles Burnett’s 1977 masterpiece Killer of Sheep, which finally received a proper theatrical release 30 years after its premiere, makes its own powerful argument as an indispensable work, one of […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/killer-of-sheep_still-008lg-115x115.jpg "Review: Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep”")
Review: Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep”
Christopher BournePosted on June 3, 2011 | No CommentsCharles Burnett’s 1977 masterpiece Killer of Sheep, which finally received a proper theatrical release 30 years after its premiere, makes its own powerful argument as an indispensable work, one of […] -
![The title of Shin Han-sol’s 2006 debut feature, Art of Fighting, proves to be quite an ironic one, since the fighting on display is anything but artful. Byeong-tae (Jae Hee, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Art-of-Fighting-1-115x115.jpg "Review: Shin Han-sol’s “Art of Fighting”")
Review: Shin Han-sol’s “Art of Fighting”
Christopher BournePosted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsThe title of Shin Han-sol’s 2006 debut feature, Art of Fighting, proves to be quite an ironic one, since the fighting on display is anything but artful. Byeong-tae (Jae Hee, […] -
![One major element of Tsai Ming-liang’s films, remarked on by many commentators, is water; Tsai’s films are practically drenched with it. Water, in all its forms, courses through the films; […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Rebels+1-115x115.png "Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “Rebels of the Neon God”")
Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “Rebels of the Neon God”
Christopher BournePosted on May 20, 2011 | No CommentsOne major element of Tsai Ming-liang’s films, remarked on by many commentators, is water; Tsai’s films are practically drenched with it. Water, in all its forms, courses through the films; […] -
![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 […] -
![Twice in The Fourth Portrait, Chung Mong-hong’s downbeat, episodic, and almost surreally fragmented second feature, Wen-hsiang (Bi Xiao-hai), the ten-year old boy at the narrative’s center, enters, and emerges from, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The+Fourth+Portrait+-+image+2-115x115.jpg "Review: Chung Mong-hong’s “The Fourth Portrait”")
Review: Chung Mong-hong’s “The Fourth Portrait”
Christopher BournePosted on May 8, 2011 | No CommentsTwice in The Fourth Portrait, Chung Mong-hong’s downbeat, episodic, and almost surreally fragmented second feature, Wen-hsiang (Bi Xiao-hai), the ten-year old boy at the narrative’s center, enters, and emerges from, […]