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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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![At first glance, the trajectory for “Silent Souls” seems to be set when Miron, a paper mill director, rather formally asks his friend Aist, a photographer at the mill, to […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/silent-souls-still-115x115.jpg "Aleksei Fedorchenko’s “Silent Souls” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review")
Aleksei Fedorchenko’s “Silent Souls” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 28, 2010 | No CommentsAt first glance, the trajectory for “Silent Souls” seems to be set when Miron, a paper mill director, rather formally asks his friend Aist, a photographer at the mill, to […] -
![Many of the best films of the New York Film Festival can be found in the excellent sidebars to the main program, allowing viewers to explore little-seen corners of film […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/v_monos_co_la_075-115x115.jpg "Fernando de Fuentes’ “Mexican Revolution Trilogy” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review")
Fernando de Fuentes’ “Mexican Revolution Trilogy” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 21, 2010 | No CommentsMany of the best films of the New York Film Festival can be found in the excellent sidebars to the main program, allowing viewers to explore little-seen corners of film […] -
Olivier Assayas’ “Carlos” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 21, 2010 | No CommentsOlivier Assayas’ three-part, five-and-a-half hour TV miniseries “Carlos” chronicles two decades in the life of the notorious international terrorist. -
![The 15th edition of the Pusan (now Busan) International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, was a transitional year in many senses. First, Kim Dong-ho, the long-time founder […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/13-assassins-115x115.jpg "The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival")
The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe 15th edition of the Pusan (now Busan) International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, was a transitional year in many senses. First, Kim Dong-ho, the long-time founder […] -
![The premise of Jeff Mizushima’s debut feature Etienne! at first blush seems almost toxically quirky: Richard (Richard Vallejos), a shy, pudgy introvert, finds out his beloved hamster companion, named Etienne, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/etienne-richard_vallejosas_richard_02-by_tim_vanderlinden-cEtiennellc+3-115x115.jpg "Review: Jeff Mizushima’s “Etienne!”")
Review: Jeff Mizushima’s “Etienne!”
Christopher BournePosted on August 31, 2010 | No CommentsThe premise of Jeff Mizushima’s debut feature Etienne! at first blush seems almost toxically quirky: Richard (Richard Vallejos), a shy, pudgy introvert, finds out his beloved hamster companion, named Etienne, […] -
Interview with Michelle Krusiec, Writer and Performer of “Made in Taiwan”
Christopher BournePosted on August 18, 2010 | No CommentsKrusiec, best known for her acclaimed role in Alice Wu’s film Saving Face, has been performing Made in Taiwan since 2002. -
![In 2005, Betty M. Park bought a magazine at an airport terminal kiosk in Bolivia. Within the pages of Etiqueta Negra was a photo essay on “cholita” (indigenous women) wrestlers. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/still-115x115.jpg "“Mamachas del Ring” Review – 2010 New York Int’l Latino Film Festival")
“Mamachas del Ring” Review – 2010 New York Int’l Latino Film Festival
Pei ChienPosted on July 27, 2010 | No CommentsIn 2005, Betty M. Park bought a magazine at an airport terminal kiosk in Bolivia. Within the pages of Etiqueta Negra was a photo essay on “cholita” (indigenous women) wrestlers. […] -
![Director Yoji Yamada accurately captures the portrait of how a black sheep has a lasting effect on his family in “About Her Brother.” The result is a film that begins […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/brother_21-115x115.jpg "“About Her Brother” – 2010 Japan Cuts Film Festival Review")
“About Her Brother” – 2010 Japan Cuts Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 14, 2010 | No CommentsDirector Yoji Yamada accurately captures the portrait of how a black sheep has a lasting effect on his family in “About Her Brother.” The result is a film that begins […] -
![“Sweet Little Lies” opens with a couple – played by Miki Nakatani (Ruriko) and Nao Omori (Satoshi) – going through a lovingly-framed sequence of a morning wake-up routine. But little […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/lies_1-115x115.jpg "“Sweet Little Lies” – 2010 Japan Cuts Film Festival Review")
“Sweet Little Lies” – 2010 Japan Cuts Film Festival Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 11, 2010 | No Comments“Sweet Little Lies” opens with a couple – played by Miki Nakatani (Ruriko) and Nao Omori (Satoshi) – going through a lovingly-framed sequence of a morning wake-up routine. But little […] -
![It is very rare when you can say of a film that you have never seen anything quite like it. Such a film is Hitoshi Matsumoto’s comic and cosmic masterwork, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/still1-115x115.jpg "Hitoshi Matsumoto’s “Symbol” – New York Asian Film Festival 2010 Review")
Hitoshi Matsumoto’s “Symbol” – New York Asian Film Festival 2010 Review
Christopher BournePosted on June 11, 2010 | No CommentsIt is very rare when you can say of a film that you have never seen anything quite like it. Such a film is Hitoshi Matsumoto’s comic and cosmic masterwork, […]