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Showing posts with label silent films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label silent films. Show all posts
09 October 2015

The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye (福壽草, 1935)

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The Scent of Pheasant’s Eye: An Episode from the Tales of Flowers (1935) 乙女シリーズ その一 花物語 福壽草 Shōjo shiriizu sono hito - hana mono...
15 April 2014

Olympic Games on Dankichi Island (ダン吉島のオリムピック大会, 1932)

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  The most popular heroes of the Fifteen Year’s War (1931-1945) in Japan were boy heroes like the comic strip figure Mābō and the fo...
04 October 2013

The National Anthem: Kimigayo (国歌 君か代, 1931)

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In 2010 Kinokuniya released a DVD dedicated to the works of animation pioneer Noburo Ofuji ( 大藤信郎 , 1990-61).  At 161 minutes, thi...
03 November 2011

Nice to See You (ナイス・トゥ・スィ・ユー, 1975)

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Taku Furukawa is best known for his doodling style of drawn animation in films like Phenakistiscope (1975) and Tyo Story (1999) a...
19 August 2011

A Mother Should Be Loved (母を恋はずや, 1934)

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In support of the BFI, one of the many companies to lose their stock in the Sony warehouse fire in Enfield , I ordered their dual format ed...
31 July 2010

The Water Magician (滝の白糸, 1933)

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Last Friday night at Shinsedai , I had the great pleasure of watching Kenji Mizoguchi ’s The Water Magician (aka Cascading White Threads...
20 June 2010

Tyo Story (上京物語/Jyōkyō Monogatari , 1999)

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Japan-Woche Mainz 2010 gave me the opportunity to watch Taku Furukawa ’s Tyo Story ( Jyōkyō Monogatari , 1999) for the second time. I...