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The Past Ahead (2004) ends my coverage of "Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made". The installation is probably the best and most mesmerising viewing experience I had this year: asian-docs.com/2026/08/04/i...

Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made (2026)/part 5 – The Past AheadThis is the last entry in my coverage of the exhibition (here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) The retrospective Idemitsu Mako What a Woman Made, currently on view at the Tokyo Photographic Art …asian-docs.com

Aryo Danusiri's short vilm, House No. 15, with sound mix by me, is featured as Film of the Month on RAI Film. (Use code "Monsoon" to watch for free.) raifilm.org.uk/2026/08/hous...

Wakao Ayako and Mizutani Yutaka in Izakaya Moheji 2, a TV special aired in 2013 on TBS. Wakao would appear again in the 4th installment of the series in 2015, to this day, her last role on the small/big screen. She was 80 years old at the time, but she had lost none of her charm or aura...

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There used to be a really good sushi place in Nishi-Shinjuku, near Yodobashi, that some people at Sumitomo Seimei introduced me to and I continued patronizing. Imagine my surprise one day seeing Wakao Ayako at the counter eating sushi.

The pioneering filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai discusses the past and future of China’s film industry and what it feels like to be caught between the censors and the market in this latest installment of the What China's Thinking column. Read Yi Liu's interview here: chinabooksreview.com/2026/07/30/w...

She was Hayao Miyazaki's "right-hand" collaborator from the '70s onward. Her name was Michiyo Yasuda -- the best color designer in animation. Yasuda's eye for color gave Ghibli's work a totally different look. We explore her methods: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist...

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Author Keigo Higashino passed away at 68 from cancer last week. Most people know him in the West as the author of "The Devotion of Suspect X" and "Salvation of a Saint" but he wrote SO many books. He's one of the most prolific mystery authors in Japan. This is a huge shock. He will be missed.

What this @theguardian.com column misses is that Dazai’s life is rife with exactly the self-loathing, masculinist attitude that gets so much traction in certain circles online ATM. A 2020s Dazai (or Mishima) boom in English may be good for book sales—but it doesn’t really bode well for society.

From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary starMore than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers engage with his bleakness, humour and brillian...www.theguardian.com

【学校連携】学生ドキュメンタリー上映会 New Documentary Crossroad 2026を開催します（8.7-8＠日本映画大学 新百合ヶ丘キャンパス） www.eiga.ac.jp/news/2026072...

【学校連携】学生ドキュメンタリー上映会 New Documentary Crossroad 2026を開催します（8.7-8＠日本映画大学 新百合ヶ丘キャンパス） | 日本映画大学www.eiga.ac.jp

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

Okamoto Kozo, the last surviving member of the group of Japanese who attacked Lod Airport in 1972, has died at the age of 78. He was released from prison in the 1980s. He later received asylum in Lebanon and lived under the protection of the PFLP. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Kozo Okamoto, Japanese militant who took part in a 1972 Tel Aviv airport attack, dies in BeirutKozo Okamoto, a Japanese militant involved in a deadly attack on Tel Aviv’s airport over 50 years ago, has died in Beirut at 78www.washingtonpost.com

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

last year an (very) independent documentary about Allen Nelson and article 9, 「アレン・ネルソン　９条を抱きしめて」was screened here and there... youtu.be/OMVTVLN8Kc0?...

映画「アレン・ネルソン　９条を抱きしめて」～元米海兵隊員が語る戦争の真実～　予告編YouTube video by 阿部裕一youtu.be

Rest in peace my dear friend and colleague Prof. Maria Roberta Novielli. She founded the Ca Foscari Short Film Festival in Venice and we worked together for many years. Very sad day.

ドキュメンタリーの国際出口いろいろ Vol.2 【映画作家 小田香を世界へ 　--パララックスの国際配給戦略】 7月26日　15:00 📍城西国際大学 東京紀尾井町キャンパス1号棟 ゲスト： 小田香さん(映画監督) ツァオ・リウインさん(Parallax Films) deguchi0726.peatix.com J-Docs Hub

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

few thoughts on Ichikawa Kon's Tokyo Olympiad 東京オリンピック (1965), a work that fascinates and disturbs me... asian-docs.com/2026/07/18/t...

Tokyo Olympiad (Ichikawa Kon, 1965)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), a spectacle-documentary that revolutionised the…asian-docs.com

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

Join us next week for ‘Yasujirō Ozu Now’, an international symposium at the Kansai University Tokyo Center in Tokyo.

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