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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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“Magazine Gap Road” – 2009 NY Asian Film Festival Review
Wade-Hahn ChanPosted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments"Magazine Gap Road" is one of the boldest Hong Kong-based films released by a first-time director (Nicholas Chin) in years. -
![“I love beauty. It’s not my fault.” So goes the life credo and main creative impulse of Valentino, fashion designer extraordinaire and the subject of Matt Tyrnauer’s engrossing, eye-opening documentary […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/valentino-115x115.jpg "Matt Tyrnauer’s “Valentino: The Last Emperor” – Documentary Review")
Matt Tyrnauer’s “Valentino: The Last Emperor” – Documentary Review
Christopher BournePosted on November 26, 2009 | No Comments“I love beauty. It’s not my fault.” So goes the life credo and main creative impulse of Valentino, fashion designer extraordinaire and the subject of Matt Tyrnauer’s engrossing, eye-opening documentary […] -
“Good Morning President” – 2009 Pusan International Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on November 14, 2009 | No CommentsJang Jin’s film "Good Morning President" is a panoramic portrait of the political and personal lives of three successive fictional Korean presidents. -
My recap of the 14th Pusan International Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on November 9, 2009 | No CommentsThe 2009 Pusan International Film Festival unveiled its biggest slate ever: 355 films from 70 countries, sprawled out in two far-apart areas of the city. -
From a packed Pusan lineup, a Top 10 film list emerges
Christopher BournePosted on October 25, 2009 | No CommentsForming a list of the best films is probably the height of folly; still, I want to highlight some of the films at the 2009 Pusan International Film Festival. -
![Before the start of this year’s New York Film Festival, if you had asked me what would be the most divisive selection, I would have said, without a doubt, Lars […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/TrashHumpers-115x115.jpg "Harmony Korine’s “Trash Humpers”– 2009 New York Film Festival Review")
Harmony Korine’s “Trash Humpers”– 2009 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 29, 2009 | No CommentsBefore the start of this year’s New York Film Festival, if you had asked me what would be the most divisive selection, I would have said, without a doubt, Lars […] -
![“Kanikosen,” or “The Crab Factory Ship,” is a famous work of proletarian literature by Takiji Kobayashi, first published in 1929. It tells the story of a group of men on […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/kanikosen-115x115.jpg "Sabu’s “Kanikosen” – New York Film Festival 2009 Review")
Sabu’s “Kanikosen” – New York Film Festival 2009 Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 26, 2009 | No Comments“Kanikosen,” or “The Crab Factory Ship,” is a famous work of proletarian literature by Takiji Kobayashi, first published in 1929. It tells the story of a group of men on […] -
Alain Resnais’ “Wild Grass” Review – New York Film Festival 2009
Christopher BournePosted on September 24, 2009 | No CommentsFrench New Wave stalwart Resnais proves with "Wild Grass" that this 87-year-old master’s prodigious artistry remains undimmed. -
![At the New York Film Festival, it’s almost guaranteed that there will be at least one controversial film to set the Alice Tully Hall denizens’ tongues wagging. The Danish cinematic […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/antichrist-115x115.jpg "Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” – 2009 New York Film Festival Review")
Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist” – 2009 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 19, 2009 | No CommentsAt the New York Film Festival, it’s almost guaranteed that there will be at least one controversial film to set the Alice Tully Hall denizens’ tongues wagging. The Danish cinematic […] -
Film Review: Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou’s “Take Out”
Christopher BournePosted on August 31, 2009 | No CommentsThe raw and energetic film "Take Out" has an unusual protagonist, one that most of us have had encounters with: the Chinese take-out delivery man.