JFF – Japanese Film Festival World Tour
The Japan Foundation Tokyo has held several film festivals in recent years, both in cinemas and via streaming. In March this year, JFF returned with seven new Japanese films.
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Flight Movies (5): Offbeat Killer Boxes: Me and a Gentleman Whispering Line 6
Another long flight full of movies – this time Korean and Japanese only. Most of them are recent releases and who knows which will end up on an accessible streaming service?
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Japan Film Festival Hamburg 2021 starts!
The Japan Filmfestival Hamburg (JFFH) is once again an online-only festival. If you are in for surprises, this is likely the festival of choice for Japanese movie lovers.
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Top 8 films you shouldn’t miss at Nippon Connection 2021
Nippon Connection 2021, the biggest film festival for the Japanese film starts this Tuesday and is once again an online event.
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Flight Movies (4): The Fate of Bento Wars: A Hero Rabbit Far From Home
Intercontinental flights equals movie time! Flight movies, my guilty pleasure of watching movies that I missed or otherwise wouldn’t watch on the tiny screen of the airplane entertainment system.
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JFF Plus: Free Japanese Film Festival Online
With the pandemic, film festivals worldwide face the challenge and opportunity to take their festivals online. JFF Plus is scheduled to run until March 7, 2021 and was initiated by The Japan Foundation.
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Nippon Connection 2020 review: Japanese Film Festival Online
How does a film festival that also celebrates Japanese culture transition to an online festival amidst the Corona crisis? Here’s how the world’s biggest Japanese film festival did it.
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No More! Movie thieves!
I have been to over seventy movie meetups and I saw at least twenty movies on my own here in
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At the movies: Gantz Perfect Answer
I have not read the Gantz manga, but I do know the anime and I didn’t like it at all.
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At the movies: Saya Samurai さや侍
Today’s movie day for me started at 9.20am with a showing of Saya Samurai at the Shinjuku Piccadilly Cinema. That’s
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Tokyo Movie Lovers Meetup: X-Men First Class
he standard price for movie tickets in Korea is 8000 won (600 yen). But nothing beats watching movies with a nice group and that’s why I’ve been to over 70 meetups of the Tokyo Movie Lovers.
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