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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
youtube.com/watch?v=CbLb...

*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?...