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The 29th Nakanoshima Screen Wars and Images Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026 Part 1 starts at 11:00 Part 2 starts at 14:00 (Doors open 15 minutes before screening) Admission: Free, 100 seats Venue: Lecture Hall of the National Museum of Art. Osaka, B1 Organized by the National Museum of Art, Osaka and National Film Archive of Japan Sponsored by Daikin Foundation for Contemporary Arts Curated by Ma Jung-Yeon (Guest curator, the National Museum of Art, Osaka) Program: Part 1: Lecture and Screening 11:00 Lecture by Otsuki Isao (Guest Scholar, Institute of Humanities. Human and Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University) "Poetics of War Documentary-Kamei Fumio's Silent Resistance" 11:40 Kamei Fumio (Fighting Soldiers) (1939, 66 minutes. Collection of National Film Archive of Japan) Part 2: Screening 14:00- Harun Farocki (Inextinguishable Fire) (1969, 25 minutes) Hito Steyerl (November) (2004, 25 minutes) Japanese subtitled version provided by ASAKUSA Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Rubber Coated Steel) (2016, 21 minutes 47 seconds) Japanese subtitled version provided by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Erkan Özgen (Purple Muslin) (2018, 16 minutes 28 seconda) Japanese subtitled version provided by Han Nefkens Foundation Concurrent exhibitions: Nakanishi Natsuyuki: Devices for Gentle Gazing and Endless Lingering Collection 3 □ Nakanoshima Video Theater National Museum of Art, Osaka THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ART, OSAKA nrAJ National Film Archive National Film Archive of Japan [Inquiries] 06-6447-4680(f) 4-2-55 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005 http://www.omao.go.jp/

Wars and Images (March 15 2026) at the National Museum of Art, Osaka:

Kamei Fumio's Fighting Soldiers) (1939)

Harun Farocki's Inextinguishable (1969)

Hito Steyerl's November (2004)

Lawrence Abu Hamdan's Rubber Coated Steel (2016)

Erkan Özgen's Purple Muslin (2018)
www.nmao.go.jp/events/event...

this is really something...

YouTube video by 映画『金子文子　何が私をこうさせたか』 映画『金子文子　何が私をこうさせたか』予告編

Hamano Sachi is back with the story of anarchist Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926)
金子文子 何が私をこうさせたか Kaneko Fumiko is now in theaters
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*1989

風の又三郎 グラスのマント Misty Wind of Kid - The Glass Cape (Itō Shun'ya, 1999)

風の又三郎 Kaze no Matasaburō (Rintarō, 1988)

Kore'eda Hirokazu Retrospective (June 2-28) and Morisaki Azuma Retrospective in Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of His Birth (Feb 2 - March 7, 2027)
at the National Film Archive of Japan:
www.nfaj.go.jp/visit/schedu...

Alfredo Garcia...what a deranged movie

【速報】映画監督・榊英雄被告に懲役8年の判決　俳優の女性に対する準強姦の罪「お互い男と女になっている中での行為」と無罪主張も　東京地裁（2026年3月6日掲載）｜日テレNEWS NNN 俳優の女性2人に性的暴行を加えた罪に問われ、無罪を主張していた映画監督の榊英雄被告（55）に対し、東京地裁は懲役8年の判決を言い渡しました。

Actor/director Hideo Sakaki, best known outside Japan for his co-starring role in Versus, was sentenced to 8 years in prison today for sexual assault on two actresses
news.ntv.co.jp/category/soc...

What Should We Have Done? (Fujino Tomoaki, 2024) What Should We Have Done? was one of the most commercially successful independent documentaries released in Japanese theaters last year, earning more than 180 million yen after its initial release …

Watching it for the second time gave me the chance to notice and appreciate things that, the first time around, were somewhat drowned out by the raw intensity of the experience. It was still a painful, heavy watch—perhaps even more piercing in some ways...
asian-docs.com/2026/03/05/w...

What Should We Have Done? (Fujino Tomoaki, 2024) What Should We Have Done? was one of the most commercially successful independent documentaries released in Japanese theaters last year, earning more than 180 million yen after its initial release …

Watching it for the second time gave me the chance to notice and appreciate things that, the first time around, were somewhat drowned out by the raw intensity of the experience. It was still a painful, heavy watch—perhaps even more piercing in some ways...
asian-docs.com/2026/03/05/w...

恋の羊が海いっぱい The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love (Kuroki Kazuo, 1961)

where's Mafty

Roadside Picnic (Nagashima Hiroyuki, Matsui Shigeru, Kato Naoki, 2013)

OK, just watched a short program on TV about the AI data centers in Japan and the issues facing the communities they are (or will be) bulit in...
if they're discussing it on TV...it's probably already a big issue....

related, a non-profit digital archive for censored and suppressed Chinese history:
minjian-danganguan.org/en

China: Unseen Histories, Unsettled Memories Presented by China Unofficial Archives, CiLENS and Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN). The late 1980s was a period of intellectual, political and social ferment in China that still resonates to...

China: Unseen Histories, Unsettled Memories
The Birth of China's New Documentary Cinema (March 12-14)
sinematranstopia.com/en/program/f...

Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability to physical disasters Iranian drone strikes damaged three Amazon Web Services sites in the Middle East, exposing how vulnerable cloud data centers are in conflict.

(AP) — Damage to three Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East from Iranian drone strikes highlights the rapid growth of data centers in the region, as well as the industry's vulnerability to conflict. apnews.com/article/amazon-aws...

新世界国際劇場 Shinsekai Kokusai Gekijō to shut down at the end of this month

Ecstasy of the Angels (Wakamatsu Kōji, 1972)

The United States Govern-ment is the major purveyor of violence in the world today. Martin Luther King said that and Martin Luther King was murdered.

The United States Govern-ment uses violence as an instrument of its policy-enforces criminal policies with criminal violence

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther (William Klein, 1970)

Satō Hisayasu on the Criterion Channel?
Satō Hisayasu on the Criterion Channel!

　Aido: Slave of Love on YT?
Aido: Slave of Love on YT!

Pinocchio fascista

...and so...S*** S**n got two of his movies released by T********a ....

February:
Hōryū-ji (1958)
Henry Fonda for President (2024)
Antonio Gaudí (1984)
Market Street (2005)
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM HATHAWAY The Sorcery of Nymph Circe (2026)
& -Là il cielo e la terra si univano, là le stagioni si ricongiungevano, là il vento e la pioggia si univano (1972)
A Woman’s Life (1962)

again

YouTube video by Official海獣シアター ニコン　ピカイチ『ラトゥーヤ・ジャクソン篇』

Nikon TV commercial directed by Tsukamoto Shin'ya in 1984. Dancer is La Toya Jackson: youtu.be/8A8jjqUgDB4?...