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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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![The 2008 Pusan International Film Festival revisited two of Kim Ki-young’s films as part of its “Archeology of Korean Cinema” retrospective. One of these was Kim’s undoubtedly most famous work, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/housemaid-115x115.jpg "Kim Ki-young’s “The Housemaid” ( 하녀 ) – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review")
Kim Ki-young’s “The Housemaid” ( 하녀 ) – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on January 22, 2009 | No CommentsThe 2008 Pusan International Film Festival revisited two of Kim Ki-young’s films as part of its “Archeology of Korean Cinema” retrospective. One of these was Kim’s undoubtedly most famous work, […] -
Jia Zhang-ke’s “24 City” – 2008 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on December 15, 2008 | No Comments“24 City” cements Jia’s status as perhaps the most vital chronicler of present-day China, and the changes wrought by the country’s rapid upward mobility. -
Arnaud Desplechin’s “A Christmas Tale” – 2008 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on November 17, 2008 | No CommentsThe holiday family reunion from hell has been the subject of many forgettable films that appear during the Christmas season. Not so with "A Christmas Tale." -
![Claire Denis’ gorgeous new film, “35 Shots of Rum,” is as essentially plot-less as her previous feature, the globe-trotting philosophical treatise “L’Intrus (The Intruder).” Screened at the Pusan International Film […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/35-Shots-of-Rum-115x115.jpg "Claire Denis’ “35 Shots of Rum” – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review")
Claire Denis’ “35 Shots of Rum” – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on October 24, 2008 | No CommentsClaire Denis’ gorgeous new film, “35 Shots of Rum,” is as essentially plot-less as her previous feature, the globe-trotting philosophical treatise “L’Intrus (The Intruder).” Screened at the Pusan International Film […] -
![For a jaded filmgoer and film festivalgoer like me, surprises can often be few and far between. Whether it is the latest Hollywood super-spectacle or the most obscure, experimental art […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/land-of-scarecrows-115x115.jpg "Roh Gyeong-tae’s “Land of Scarecrows” – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review")
Roh Gyeong-tae’s “Land of Scarecrows” – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on October 12, 2008 | No CommentsFor a jaded filmgoer and film festivalgoer like me, surprises can often be few and far between. Whether it is the latest Hollywood super-spectacle or the most obscure, experimental art […] -
Happy Birthday, Asian American Arts Alliance
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on October 1, 2008 | No CommentsThe Asian American Arts Alliance honored costume designer Willa Kim, music executive Eric Wong and actor Kal Penn at its 25th Anniversary Gala. -
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Tokyo Sonata” – 2008 NYFF Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 29, 2008 | No Comments"Tokyo Sonata" is Kurosawa's best in quite a few years, a truly frightening work that achieves its effects without resorting to tired genre mechanics. -
Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” – 2008 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 21, 2008 | No CommentsMcQueen's impressive feature debut is not your normal biopic – and that’s a very good thing. His experimental, non-narrative film examines the final days of IRA activist and political prisoner Bobby Sands. -
A Naomi Kawase interview: “The Mourning Forest”
Christopher BournePosted on August 19, 2008 | No CommentsMeniscus Magazine interviews Naomi Kawase about her film "The Mourning Forest," which opened the Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film in New York. -
![It’s a competition that sounds easier than it is: Abiding by a required theme and a set of strict rules, a team must conceive, shoot, script and complete a five-minute […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/72HourFilmsNoHoldingBack-115x115.jpg "72 hours. One short film. All Systems Go.")
72 hours. One short film. All Systems Go.
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 15, 2008 | No CommentsIt’s a competition that sounds easier than it is: Abiding by a required theme and a set of strict rules, a team must conceive, shoot, script and complete a five-minute […]