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Kazuo Kuroki's あるマラソンランナーの記録 Record of a Marathon Runner (1964) www.sonatine.it/2026/07/31/r...

RECORD OF A MARATHON RUNNER (Aru marasonran'nā no kiroku, KUROKI Kazuo, 1964) - SONATINESPECIALE GANBARE! SPORT E CINEMA di Matteo Boscarol Scroll down for the English Review Grazie al suo peculiare tono monotono e grigio, Record of a Marathon Runner, rappresenta l’altra faccia delle Oli...www.sonatine.it

I'll be in Taipei for a couple of days, any recommendations (cinema-related or otherwise)?

"Japan’s ‘urban forests’ are being swallowed up by capital and disappearing"

42 years ago Miyazaki, Oshii, Tezuka, Kurosawa and Anpanman joined forces together to make the REAL version of the Odyssey, one that is far superior to the Nolan one. A thread 1/67

現代恐怖サスペンス Gendai Kyōfu Suspense was a drama series for TV produced by Kansai Television Broadcasting aired in summer s between 1986 and 1989. The second episode, 怖い贈り物, was directed by Ishii Teruo: youtu.be/BebRekJszsw?...

【解説付】『現代怪奇サスペンス』第2話「怖い贈り物」【期間限定】YouTube video by フィルドラチャンネル【ユニオン映画公式】youtu.be

part 4 of my coverage of Idemitsu Mako's retrospective: Shodows Part 1 (1980), Kiyoko’s Situation (1989) (one of her bleakest), and Kae, Act Like a Girl! (1996), an important shift in her career... asian-docs.com/2026/07/26/i...

Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made (2026)/part 4Continuing my articles about the exhibition, Part 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here) The retrospective Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made, currently on view at the Tokyo Photographic Art M…asian-docs.com

the first half of 2026 is behind us... best Japanese animated movies so far?

apropos of odysseys... boxd.it/c2JVWv

A ★★★½ review of Dandelion's Odyssey (2025)Produced and photographed over the span of two years, the film engages with a post-anthropocene landscape already explored recently by other animated works such as Robot Dreams and Flow. Here though, ...boxd.it

charming and well animated boxd.it/fppvph

A ★★★ review of Night in the Valley of Witches (2026)Produced as both a tribute to and a showcase for Ghibli Park, Night in the Valley of Witches is a delightful little film with beautiful animation and a warm, pastel-coloured look. Set entirely within ...boxd.it

if I'm not wrong, at the moment the movie is being screened in only one theater, Cinema Rosa in Ikebukuro...

怪奇! 死肉の男 Living Corpse (2026) directed by Sone Takeshi, cinematographer for One Cut of the Dead, is out in Japan today... Kinema Junpo: from an original manga by Hino Hideshi...script created using ChatGPT, and the voices of the characters are provided by...AI voices of real actors...

a few thoughts on A New Dawn (scroll down for the English review): www.sonatine.it/2026/07/24/a...

A New Dawn (Hanarokushō ga akeru hi ni, SHINOMIYA Yoshitoshi, 2026) - SONATINEIn una piccola cittadina giapponese sopravvive una storica fabbrica artigianale di fuochi d’artificio, destinata però a chiudere i battenti.www.sonatine.it

alright, let's see this

Sapporo Winter Olympics (Shinoda Masahiro, 1972) asian-docs.com/2026/07/23/s...

SAPPORO WINTER OLYMPICS (Shinoda Masahiro, 1972)The summer special on sport and cinema I’m working on with my friends at Sonatine gave me the chance to revisit Ichikawa Kon’s Tokyo Olympiad (1965) last week, and today I turned to Shinoda Masahir…asian-docs.com

she was working on a multilingual book/project about Tsukamoto Shin'ya (they knew each other pretty well), hopefully it will be published...

what a sad news, professor and scholar Maria Roberta Novielli has passed away at 62. She was one of the leading scholars on Japanese cinema in Italy...what a loss www.unive.it/web/it/15165...

Addio a Maria Roberta Novielli, anima del Ca’ Foscari Short Film FestivalLunedì 20 luglio è mancata improvvisamente la prof.ssa Maria Roberta Novielli, docente associata di Cinema, fotografia, radio, televisione e media digitali presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni&h...www.unive.it

rewatching A New Dawn 花緑青が明ける日に... I'm definitely in the minority, but I think it's a fascinating piece of animation...

Continuing my series of articles about the exhibition, Part 3. Housewives and a Day (1979) was one of the discoveries of the retro for me: asian-docs.com/2026/07/20/i...

Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made (2026)/part 3Continuing my articles about the exhibition, Part 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) The retrospective Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made, currently on view at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (July-S…asian-docs.com

I should have known better, The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya ハワイ・マレー沖海戦 (1942) is number one on the "box office admissions tickets of all time list" in the Wiki in English, but is not in the Japanese one... I need to do a bit more of research...

Opposition to data centers grows in cramped urban Japan www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07...

Opposition to data centers grows in cramped urban JapanThe explosion in resource-hungry data centers — housing the hardware “brains” of artificial intelligence — is fueling unease worldwide.www.japantimes.co.jp