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interested in Lost Land and The Obsessed, Fujimoto's movies are very difficult to track down unless you see them in theaters

歿後30年記念特集上映　キャメラマン瀬川順一と日本ドキュメンタリー映画史

A special retrospective on Segawa Junichi at Athénée Français in Tokyo (Dec 5-13).
Many important films: Fighting Soldiers, Minamata Mural, Antonio Gaudí, etc... but I really want to be there to see Haneda Sumiko's Ode to Mt. Hayachine on the big screen...
athenee.net/culturalcent...

The Aichi Nagoya International Animation Film Festival (ANIAFF) has revealed the lineup (11 titles) for the Feature Film Competition:
aniaff.com/en/programs/...

歿後30年記念特集上映　キャメラマン瀬川順一と日本ドキュメンタリー映画史

A special retrospective on Segawa Junichi at Athénée Français in Tokyo (Dec 5-13).
Many important films: Fighting Soldiers, Minamata Mural, Antonio Gaudí, etc... but I really want to be there to see Haneda Sumiko's Ode to Mt. Hayachine on the big screen...
athenee.net/culturalcent...

A Grammar of the Multitude and Déjà Vu and the End of History are two books I keep returning to...so engaging and inspiring

sit tibi terra levis

rainbow and moon

good morning

Reposting in memory of Paolo Virno, the special issue of SAQ on Autonomia in the Anthropocene with my essay "Anthropocene and Anthropogenesis: Philosophical Anthropology and the Ends of Man"

monoskop.org/images/a/a5/...

RIP Paolo Virno (1952-2025)

From November 14, Demachiza in Kyoto will host a special retrospective (22 works) dedicated to Itō Takashi. Most of them are available on DVD and on other platforms (but not all), but it's always compelling to see them on the big screen.
Here the trailer (made by Itō himself on "the other place"):

Film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors Participants ask for their films not to be shown at IndieChina event, which was due to launch this weekend

Film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

YouTube video by Scott Barley Half Moon — Short Film shot on iPhone

Scott Barley's excellent short Half Moon is available on his YT channel. Watch it in the darkest room you can:
youtu.be/ALSiGt3KBTU?...

folks who attended this year Tokyo Film Fest, any highlights?

by the way, it was in theater for a couple of weeks here in Japan

happy birthday to Wakao Ayako, who turns 92 today
I love her charisma and presence in all genres, but I have a soft spot for her roles in movies with a lighter touch...

poster for the anthology films (series?) adapted from Fujimoto Tatsuki's early works: Tatsuki Fujimoto is written on the top of the poster below in big characters 17.26

time to check Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 (2025)

same thought, I hope to see Taste of Tea on the big screen one day

Documentary ethics, informed consent, and journalism vs documentary: The Black Box Diaries “case” This is an open space – open because it’s a work in progress – where I will attempt to collect and index articles, essays and discussions generated in Japan by the non-release (as…

November updates:
- the documentary will be screened at T-Joy Prince Shinagawa in December.
- added a link to the piece by Heidi Ka-Sin Lee published on @tokyoreview.net

asian-docs.com/2025/03/10/d...

石井克人の監督デビュー30周年記念！
「鮫肌男と桃尻女」など4作を東京・大阪で上映⚡️

🗣️「スクリーンの中で、
　　あの頃の僕らがいまだに暴れてます」

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Sanseitō and its far-right conspiracy ideology In July 2025, Sanseitō (a.k.a. The Party of DIY !!) became the first far-right political party in postwar history to establish a stable presence in both Houses of the National Diet. With the party’s f...

I wrote a shorter, slightly punchier version of my recent research article about Sanseitō as my first contribution to the new Tokyo Review. It should be vastly more accessible, and hopefully sets the tone of what else I plan to do in the future of TR www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/what...

Black Box Diaries (Itō Shiori) to be screened at T-Joy Prince Shinagawa in December:
natalie.mu/eiga/news/64...

thread with my coverage of this year Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival:
5 articles, one more to go...

they're opening with Flame Union apparently...

Yet Cinema Club, Theater Aimyou in Osaka (20 seats) in a couple of days, CineMalice in Ochanomizu in December...
there are many mini-theaters struggling to survive (Nagoya CinemaSkhole 😢), and others closing...
but there's is also a trend of new theatrical spaces opening...and not only in Tokyo...

I think I found it, Theater Aimyou, right?

which one?

Yet Cinema Club, a mini-theater in Ōhashi, Fukuoka city, is opening in January 2026.
More than a traditional mini-theater is a tiny theatrical space (15 seats) that will be launched together with a reading space/cafe, fuzkue Ōhashi:
note.com/yet_fukuoka/...

my goodness,, it gets more and more deranged and nonsensical at it goes... remarkable

it's basically an anarchic and surreal pink comedy...

YouTube video by digthemovies 2020年10月2日まさかの初DVD化！『ウィークエンド・シャッフル』（原作：筒井康隆／監督：中村幻児／出演：秋吉久美子）

watching ウィークエンド シャッフル Weekend Shuffle (Nakamura Kenji, 1982), from a short story by Tsutsui Yasutaka...
pretty wild and politically incorrect...
youtu.be/jcaTI_eaHrk?...