Archive for the ‘Films’ Category
March 1, 2009

Departures (おくりびと ,Okuribito) is a 2008 Japanese film directed by Yōjirō Takita that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2009 Oscars.
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Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Japan, Life, Culture, Movies, Films, Books, Oscars 2009, Departures Film, おくりびと, Okuribito, Yōjirō Takita, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2009, Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician, Shinmon Aoki, Masahiro Motoki | 2 Comments »
February 28, 2009
Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Animated Film, Animation, Anime, つみきのいえ, Best Animated Short Film 2009, Culture, House of Small Cubes, Japan, La Maison en Petits Cubes, Life, Oscar 2009 | 9 Comments »
February 23, 2009
Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Academy Award Winners 2009, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2009, Culture, Departures by Yojiro Takita, Films, Heath Ledger, House of Blocks, Japan, Japanese Film Departures, Japanese Films, Japanese Movies, Kunio Katō, La Maison en Petits Cubes, Life, Movies, News, Oscar Winners 2009, Oscars, Oscars 2009, Sean Penn Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Tsumiki no Ie | 19 Comments »
January 27, 2009
Posted in Culture, Films, Japan | Tagged Deconstructing Godzilla, Evolution of Godzilla, Godzilla, Godzilla and Postwar Japan, Japan, Mothra, Mothra Song, Shobijin | Leave a Comment »
October 30, 2008
Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Japan, Tokyo International Film Festival Winners, Tokyo International Film Festival, Red Cliff, Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix, Tulpan, 4 Nights with Anna, School Days with a Pig, TOYOTA Earth Grand Prix, Ashes from the Sky, Japanese Eyes Best Picture Award, buy a suit, Osaka Hamlet, Akira Kurosawa Award | 2 Comments »
October 25, 2008

The Nanking Massacre was a war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing (Nanking), a former capital of the Republic of China, in December 1937. According to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, estimates made at a later date indicate that the total number of civilians and prisoners of war murdered in Nanking and its vicinity during the first six weeks of the Japanese occupation was over 200,000. (Wiki)
A film by Japanese director Satoru Mizushima searches for the “real truth” behind the Nanking Massacre. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Japan, Nanjing Massacre, Nankin no Shinjitsu, Nanking Massacre, The Truth about Nanjing, The Truth about Nanking | 6 Comments »
September 19, 2008

The Masque of the Black Death, the last script that legendary Oscar-winning director Akira Kurosawa co-wrote before his death in 1998, will finally be animated for a planned theatrical release in 2010.
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Posted in Anime, Films, Japan | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Anime, Edgar Allan Poe, Film, Japan, Movie, The Mask of Red Death, The Masque of the Black Death, The Masque of the Black Death Anime, The Masque of the Red Death | 6 Comments »
September 7, 2008

“There’s a belief that if you call into the well, you can call a dying person back. Wells lead to the bottom of the earth.”
Warning: This post is somewhat depressing. Please avoid it if you don’t want to ruin your good mood. Read the rest of this entry ?
Posted in Films, Japan | Tagged Akahige, Akira Kurosawa, Japan, Red Beard, Suicide | 4 Comments »
June 11, 2008
Posted in Films, Japan, Music | Tagged Comedy, Film, Funky Forest, Japanese, Movie, Naisu no Mori, Surreal, The First Contact | 4 Comments »