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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

Nippon Connection 2021, the biggest film festival for the Japanese film starts this Tuesday and is once again an online

16. March 202116. March 2021 MiaJaap 0 Comments

Intercontinental flights equals movie time! Flight movies, my guilty pleasure of watching movies that I missed or otherwise would’t watch

With the pandemic, film festivals worldwide face the challenge and opportunity to take their festivals online. JFF Plus is scheduled

How does a film festival that also celebrates Japanese culture transition to an online festival amidst the Corona crisis? Here’s

I have been to over seventy movie meetups and I saw at least twenty movies on my own here in

22. June 201113. March 2021 MiaJaap 0 Comments

I have not read the Gantz manga, but I do know the anime and I didn’t like it at all.

Today’s movie day for me started at 9.20am with a showing of Saya Samurai at the Shinjuku Piccadilly Cinema. That’s

I could’ve easily watched this film in Seoul and saved a lot of money: meetup fee included, I payed 1400

Time for something more artsy: A Korean movie with Japanese subtitles! I watched „Secret“, a thriller from 2009. There is

Movie prices in Tokyo are high and it doesn’t matter which cinema you choose. If you buy the tickets on