Japan Tag Archive

Art & Fashion, Asides

FIGURE

Uniting under the banner of *Asterisk, MEISAI (Dance), MANUKE (Direction) and Kenji Kariu (Sound) created the experimental dance piece FIGURE “a short

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Live Action

Blind

Japanese director Yukihiro Shoda’s post-nuclear short Blind see’s a salaryman haunted by surreal visions in a dimension not so distant from ours.

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Tokyo Slo-Mode

Alex Lee’s Tokyo Slo-Mode is a gorgeously unhurried and loving look at his hometown. It’s a view we don’t normally get of this city more

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Animation, Art & Fashion

The Light of Life

Breathtakingly beautiful animation from Daihei Shibata. Life is transparent, warm and swirls randomly like a soft light. And it constantly changes… Life

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN Special: Confessions of a Dog – Gen Takahashi

In preparation for a screening at the Glasgow Film Festival which kicked off last weekend and a DVD release from Third Window Films in March, Confessions of a

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN170: Kakera – Momoko Andô

When you’re born into a filmmaking family the question isn’t if you’ll pick up the camera, but rather if you’ll manage to forge your

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Music Video, Podcasts

DN140: Sour: Hibi no Neiro – Masashi Kawamura, Hal Kirkland, Magico Nakamura & Masayoshi Nakamura

Sometimes you find a piece that has you sharing it across the web before it’s even finished playing and the video for band Sour’s Hibi no Neiro

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Animation, Podcasts

DN007: Pikapika

Joining me from Tokyo are Nagata Takeshi and Monno Kazue of creative company Tochka and their long-time collaborator Tachikwa Ritsuko who with the Pikapika

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