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By day: lumpenproletariat. By night: Japan-based film critic and writer for Il Manifesto and other publications. Independently writing and researching about Asian documentary here: https://asian-docs.com/
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filmmaker Mori Tatsuya weighs in on Black Box Diaries, the debate over ethics in documentary, and the difference between journalism and documentary: www.newsweekjapan.jp/stories/cult...

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A Preview of Osaka Asian Film Festival 2025 Here's a brief overview of the festival's programme based on the press releases. There are links to various films on the festival's site where you can find trailers and more info. genkinahito.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/a...

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‘NO OTHER LAND’ wins Best Documentary Feature Film at the #Oscars

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【第97回アカデミー賞】長編ドキュメンタリー映画賞は「ノー・アザー・ランド　故郷は他にない」　伊藤詩織監督は受賞ならず https://eiga.com/l/sJ2ci #アカデミー賞 #Oscars #Oscars97 @TheAcademy

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"Flow" won the Oscar for Best Animated Film ♡

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"The March instalment of the Kota Isao's program focuses on his later "landscape theory" works: Echo (1982), Circuit Meter (1983) and Big Stone and Small Night (1991)": www.collabjapan.org/events/2025/...

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three films same director

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Case sparse. Visioni di case che crollano (Gianni Celati, 2002) mesmerising editing here...

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it was one of my favourite documentaries of 2023, now Bill Morrison's Oscar nominated short The Incident is available, legally, here: youtu.be/oW65ChIjur4?...

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It looks like the Japanese documentary "Instruments of a Beating Heart" has been nominated for an Oscar. I wrote about it when it screened at the Tokyo Int'l Film Festival as "The Making of a Japanese." eigafile.com/2023/10/28/t...

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Yamanba. Donne ribelli del Giappone (Mimesis) Rossella Marangoni

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「映画ドラえもん　のび太の絵世界物語」イタリアで初のワールドプレミア！　水田わさび＆あいみょんが現地の反応に感激 ▼イベント写真はこちら https://eiga.com/l/W1ovB #映画ドラえもんのび太の絵世界物語

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5 hours left! "Kazuo Hara's new work 'Minamata Mandala Part 2' has resumed filming, but production costs are in trouble. 20 years in the making, 372 minutes long. This project is seeking support for the production of the sequel to Minamata Mandala (2020)" motion-gallery.net/projects/Kaz...

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There have been a lot of fascinating discussions about documentary ethics and consent in the Japanosphere lately. I would like to add an interesting scene in どうすればよかったか？What Should We Have Done? (Fujino Tomoaki, 2024) /1

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it's from today, the films are available only in Korea (some of them have English subtitles):

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adding Dezaki Miki's thoughts on the Black Box Diaries's "case". Dezaki directed 主戦場and was sued by five interviewees, claiming that their consent was obtained under false premises (he eventually won the cause) shinsho-plus.shueisha.co.jp/news/29572

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R.I.P. Gene Hackman (1930-2025)

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I think Itō being 当事者 is the crucial point here. I've read various opinions and thoughts from people I respect, and to varying degrees they're all right... Nornes, Yang and others have raised valid, agreeable and fascinating points, but... /1

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this is a thread of emails about the documentary and its ethics: mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/ki...

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"Please support the おもちゃ映画ミュージアム Toy Film Museum's move and renovation of the new location: camp-fire.jp/projects/811...

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list of film presented at this year 新潟国際アニメーション映画祭 Niigata International Animation Film Festival: boxd.it/ExfJC

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Decades ago, Chinese artists chose to animate traditional paper crafts, painting styles, theater and more. They tried to make animation that was unique to China — and different from Disney. Tons of thought and creativity went into it, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/chinese-an...

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劇場版モノノ怪　第二章　火鼠 (2025) 🧠💊

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I don't post on the other site, but there are a lot of people there that I respect, especially Japanese. In the last few days, filmmaker Yang Yong-hi has been commenting on Itō Shiori and the ethics of documentary... fascinating... I wish she could share her opinion on other platforms as well...

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Mainichi has an English write-up on Shiori Ito's decision to re-edit "Black Box Diaries". The documentary's use of unauthorized footage has been the main barrier to a domestic cinema release. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (Mohanad Yaqubi, 2022) free to stream through February 26th: www.palestinefilminstitute.org/en/pfp

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To Arms, We're Fascists! (Lino Del Fra, Lino Miccichè, Cecilia Mangini, 1962)

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Nominees for the 29th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Manga Award have been announced. Glad to see Rintarō's Ma Vie En 24 Images Par Seconds 1秒24コマのぼくの人生 anime.eiga.com/news/123256/

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普通の生活 Ordinary Life by Mizushiri Yoriko won the Silver Bear Jury Prize (Short Film) at the Berlinale

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the other movie today was 暗黒街の対決 The Last Gunfight (Okamoto Kihachi, 1960) with Mifune Toshirō

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Why does Karina Longworth do British and French accents in her (good) podcast about the late Hitchcock? It's annoying...

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it was good

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9am show, and the tiny cinema is quite packed ...the posters rock... let's see if the film does too

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just another morning here in yukiguni⛄

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Antifascism and the Avant-Garde Radical Documentary in the 1960s "Through careful readings of Matsumoto Toshio, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda, Hani Susumu, and others, Julia Alekseyeva shows that avant-garde documentary films of the 1960s did not strive to inoculate..."

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these are the films: The other HIROSHIMA Korean A-bomb Victims Tell Their Story (1986) Song of Ariran -voices from Okinawa (1991) Nuchigafu - Life is a Treasure (2012) The Silence (2017) Voices of the Silenced (2023)

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