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Reason #5,000,001 to Attend The Sitges Film Festival

blake — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:28:31 +0000

The Sitges Film Festival (sitgesfilmfestival.com) is held annually in Sitges, Spain, in early October and one of the largest and most fun film festivals in the world. Goes without saying it is one of my favorite film festivals and here is a video I put together showing off the festival and town in takes place in and in mostly asking if you haven’t been yet… what are you waiting for? This is a must attend film festival on the international circuit set in an ideal location with great audiences and film festival staff.

Sitges Film Festival 2009:
::: Official Site
::: Sitges Official Facebook Fan Page
::: Variety on Sitges ‘09
::: ‘Visage’, by Tsai Ming-liang, opens the Noves Visions category
::: Malcolm McDowell to receive the Grand Honorary Award at the opening, which will moved up to October 1st
::: [REC]2 to open Sitges 09
::: Alien is the inspiration for Sitges 09
::: The latest and most eagerly awaited genre films at Official Fantàstic Section
::: Animation, international variants of horror and 3D film
::: Sitges 09 will be recalling certain flashes from the 80’s

Martyrs Wins 2009 Melies d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film

blake — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:55:21 +0000

NOTE: Higher res version can be downloaded/viewed here in Quicktime format

For fans of Martyrs and Pascal here is video I took of him winning the 2009 Melies d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film at 42 Sitges Film Festival. I’m glad to be able to post this online for the fans of his and the film that didn’t get to be there.

It came full circle for me at the 42 Sitges Film Festival in getting to see filmmaker Pascal Laugier win and accept the 2009 Melies d’Or for Best European Fantastic Film (www.melies.org) for Martyrs (previous CID movie wallpaper). The film bowed first at the legendary Midnight Madness screening in Toronto and then played as the closing night film at Fantastic Fest here in Austin in 2008. Getting the film in Austin was by no means an easy task and may people went to great lengths, Tim League especially, in getting it here. Seeing it on the big screen here in Austin was a brutal and great experience all wrapped up in one. To see the film we fought to get here come full circle and win the prestigious Melies award at the grand Sitges Film Festival was unbelievable. These awards seem to revolve at where they get announced at every year and just for me to be at the spot after all these years of missing them where they were and for it to be the year Martyrs won… just felt for circle for me. Not to mention a wild night of partying with him and the Melies crew into the wee hours of the morning and getting to chat about the Austin reaction to his film and its post-free screening! Pascal Laugier’s next film gets rolling into production next year with a probable earliest bow looking to be in Fall 2011 (this can of course change). His next film is a thriller.

Fish Story from Yoshihiro Nakamura Wins Top Prize at NIFFF 2009

blake — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:55:51 +0000

Fish Story from Yoshihiro Nakamura wins the prestigious H.R. Giger Award “Narcisse” for best feature film and overall top prize at the 9th Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF; www.nifff.ch). It also picked up the Denis-de-Rougemont Youth Award. Benny Chan’s Connected picked up this years audience award. Best Asian Movie Award goes to Tsutomu Hanabusa’s, The Handsome Suit. Antichrist won the Titra Film Award.

Other winners include Left Bank winning the Silver Melies and Mad Movies Award. Infestation won a special mention.

Full Press Release after the link bump!

More than 22,000 spectators attended the 9th edition of the NIFFF

Once again, the Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival has given a lot of intense film emotions by offering to an audience bigger than ever before a quality program and a range of prestigious guests. The 2009 edition closes today on a remarkably positive note.

Bong Joon-ho, Aoyama Shinji, Joko Anwar, Ole Bornedal, Antti-Jussi Annila, Pieter Van Hees: having stayed true to its tradition, the NIFFF has been the privileged meeting point of international genre cinema big names during six days. More than 22,000 festival-goers were present and celebrated the fantastic genre by taking over the Apollo cinema, the “Theatre du Passage” and the Open Air in order to attend the screenings, but also the public conferences and meetings. With this new record of spectators, the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival confirms, before its tenth edition, that it is more than ever an event that no one can ignore in the field of genre cinema.

PRIZE WINNERS

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

THE INTERNATIONAL JURY

Bong Joon-ho (director, South Korea), Joko Anwar (director, Indonesia), Gerard Soeteman (screen-writer, Denmark), Fançois Angelier (journalist, France), Erika Stucky (singer and performer, Switzerland/USA) give the following award:

The H.R. Giger Award “Narcisse” for best feature film to:

FISH STORY by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Japan

The main prize goes to a film honoring artists who do their own thing regardless of the money it could bring them. We know that we are not the only ones to threaten our planet but that the enemy can also come from outer-space. In order to foil that threat thanks to Japanese rock, to a Japanese female mathematician, to Indian rockets and to a very international crew of astronauts, we have decided to give an encouraging and definite tap on the shoulder to Fish Story.

Special mentions to:

INFESTATION by Kyle Rankin, USA

Because of its humor, its tribute to fantastic films made since Melies in 1895 and because of its scaring qualities and because of the fact that it incites us to buy Swiss anti-insect sprays, the special award should go to Infestation.

THE MELIES JURY

Valentin Greutert (producer, Switzerland), Florian Keller (film critic, Switzerland) and Bettina Oberli (director, Switzerland) give the following award:

The Silver Melies for best European feature film to:

LEFT BANK by Pieter Van Hees, Belgium

The movie is about a young woman whose body has reached its limits but who continues her daily activities even if it puts her life in jeopardy. With a powerful atmosphere, Left Bank distinguishes itself by using in a singular way the codes of genre cinema: the fantastic and the occult are rooted in the social realism of a closed urban space. As a result, Pieter van Hees builds his own mythology of anxiety and sets it convincingly in the familiar context of his home town.

The film is automatically nominated for the Golden Melies, which will be awarded at the 42nd edition of the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastico de Catalunya, in Sitgès, in October 2009.

SWISS SHORT FILMS SSA/SUISSIMAGE COMPETITION

THE SSA/SUISSEIMAGE JURY:

Fulvio Bernasconi (director, Switzerland), Pascal Gavillet (film critic, Switzerland) and Stephanie Guex (curator, Switzerland) give the following awards:

The H.R. Giger Award Narcisse for the best Swiss short film to:

LE PETIT DRAGON by Bruno Collet

The Taurus Studio Award to:

LE PETIT DRAGON by Bruno Collet
DEJA by Antonin Schopfer

EUROPEAN SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

The nomination for the Golden Méliès for best European short film goes to:

TILE M FOR MURDER by Magnus Holmgren, Sweden

OTHER AWARDS

The TSR Audience Award goes to:

CONNECTED by Benny Chan, Hong Kong/China

The Best Asian Movie Award goes to:

THE HANDSOME SUIT by Tsutomu Hanabusa, Japan

The Mad Movies Award for « le film le plus Mad» goes to:

LEFT BANK by Pieter Van Hees, Belgium

The Titra Film Award goes to:

ANTICHRIST by Lars Von Trier, Denmark/Poland/Germany/Sweden/Italy

The Denis-de-Rougemont Youth Award honors:

FISH STORY by Yoshihiro Nakamura, Japan

See you next year for the 10th Edition !

Nippon Connection 2009 – Full Program Announced

blake — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:40 +0000

Nippon Connection (www.nipponconnection.com) as previously noted is one of my favorite film festivals. It’s a rush of Japanese cinema and culture pack into 5 memorable days and nights held annually in Frankfurt, Germany. This years lineup features 150 highlights including features and shorts, with an immersive full slate of cultural events. Of note from those who were at Fantastic Fest last year are several Pink film screening in the retro part of the festival, including: Blue Film Woman, Gushing Prayer and S&M Hunter. Other notable newly announced titles include: Is Not No Tomorrows, Love Exposure (winner at the recent Berlin International Film Festival) and Detroit Metal City (which bowed last year at Midnight Madness).

Full press release follows below… (Translated via Google into English). For those consider traveling please note that several airlines, including American Airlines are running amazing deals for round trip airfare through sites like Orbitz and Expedia.

Nippon Connection
Japanese Film Festival
15. – 19 April 2009
Frankfurt am Main
www.nipponconnection.com

Nippon Connection Festival – The Program

After months of viewing marathons, the Nippon Connection Festival Crew again an exquisite program. From 15 to 19 April we will present in Frankfurt around 150 Highlights of the current Japanese film, including numerous premieres.

Will open the festival with the already on the Cannes Film Festival celebrated film TOKYO SONATA by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA the creeping disintegration of a family show. A great film event is the bildgewaltige, 4 hours monumental work of LOVE EXPOSURE Enfant Terrible-director Sion Sono, with Caligari and the FIPRESCI Prize. The drama shows the love story of a hungry young people live in sin and passion involved. The exceptional talent will Kazuyoshi KUMAKIRI at Nippon Connection when Germany premiere his new film NON-KO imagine. With tension is also expected NightMare DETECTIVE 2, from cult director Shinya TSUKAMOTO. The latest film by director “veteran” KORE-EDA Hirokazu STILL WALKING deals sensitively with the issue of death and has many awards internationally. Lovers of film will be joyful in the manga adaptation of DETROIT METAL CITY Toshi enjoying LEE: A musician is unwilling from his management to Glamrockstar made and will be forced up as a musician of Kiss to schminken. In the elaborate comic adaptation 20TH CENTURY BOYS success of director Yukihiko TSUTSUMI humanity is threatened by destruction. Course may also not be missing Japanese animes. We show among other things, the two animation compilations GENIUS PARTY and GENIUS PARTY BEYOND from the creative forge Studio 4 ° C, with works like “Tekkon Kinkreet” and “Mind Game” has become available. Another treat for lovers of the extraordinary animated film is by Yoshiki HELLS YAMAKAWA, with his skurilen characters and funky soundtrack to the potential cult film.

For the fourth time at the Festival of the Audience Award Nippon Cinema Award in the amount of 2,000 euros awarded to this year, the Metzler Bank donates. After the festival in Frankfurt is a part of the digital program as Nippon Connection Film Festival on Tour around the World. The plan will include demonstrations in Munich, New York, Paris and Barcelona.

The Nippon retro this year is dedicated to the Pink Film, a special genre of Japanese erotic film in which almost all of today’s well-known directors have worked in Japan. The Pink Film directors gave an expression of freedom, between the experimental aesthetics, political radicalism and sheer Sexploitation fluctuated. We show a range of films from the 1960s until today.

But Nippon Connection not only offers the latest news from the Japanese filmmaking. The CIP Nippon Culture invites, Japanese culture, with all their senses to experience. With the emphasis on “Sounds” kidnapped Nippon Culture visitors this year in the sound worlds of Japan. Atmospheric sound installations, radio plays, entertaining and energetic Taiko rhythms on acoustic rain (re-) discoveries at. Also explore concert with a sound and a Japanese silent film narrators (Benshi), of its own trash live shorts commented, the quality of the interplay of images and acoustic canvas space.

At Nippon Connection is lively cultural exchanges varied experience. Interactive live circuits to filmmakers and the nightlife in Tokyo to the festival center will be a virtual meeting place. With the revival of the cult show Late Lounge: Home Theater Reloaded logs Roberto Cappelluti at Nippon Connection extremely vital back. Together with the author and Splatter Film director Jörg Buttgereit he is a Japanese trash cinema pearl mercilessly in front of an audience live apart. In addition, Nippon Culture numerous opportunities to try out as a visitor and creatively involved from the Butoh dance workshop with the internationally renowned Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki about the exclusive ceremony scent to the sushi cooking class. And the traditional event of the afternoon at the University of Frankfurt Japanology moves this year around the mobile entertainment culture of Japan. Rounding out the cultural program of the exhibition of contemporary video art Japanese body. space. time. and a video-dance performance in the gallery in the station house Mousonturm artists, as well as through lectures, filmmaker interviews, karaoke, tea lounge, bar noodle soups and more.

The legendary festival parties may again be celebrated extensively. The celebrity duo Roberto Cappelluti (Late Lounge, Street Stars) and Jörg Buttgereit (writer, director) dared to the platter and show Wednesday, 15.4., At the opening lounge what they can. On Friday, 17.4., The Japanese pop Queen KUMISOLO Cheap Paris from the audience at a live concert with sugar-sweet sounds enchant. And on Saturday, 18.4., Then bring to the festival party again Hito DJs Yogi and the dance floor to the boil.

The scope of the program may be fooled. Nippon Connection is still in voluntary work by the association Nippon Connection. The team around 30köpfige organization, from first-time students up to the aircraft engineer who has everything to offer you a unique festival experience.

Venues:
Student house on the campus Bockenheim (Festival Center), Jügelstr. 1
Cinema Orfeos Erben, Hamburger Allee 45
Kino im Deutschen Filmmuseum, Schaumainkai 41
Galerie Station im Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Waldschmidtstr. 4

Ticket sales from the 1.4.:
www.nipponconnection.com
Landkarten Schwarz, Am Markt 12 seeds
Uni-Shop Gothe, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 133 (New Cafeteria, Campus Bockenheim)
Campus shop of the Goethe University, Grüneburgplatz 1 (Lecture Hall Center, West Campus)

The program

NIPPON NIPPON CINEMA & DIGITAL

20th Century Boys (Niju SEIKI shonen), R: Yukihiko TSUTSUMI, J 2008
www.20thboys.com

A Normal Life, Please (Jikken Ningyo dami ozuma), R: Tokachi TSUCHIYA, J 2008
futunoshigoto.blog36.fc2.com

ABC Short Films, R: Kazuyuki Izutsu, Kazuki Omori, Junji Sakamoto, Sang Il LEE, Yoichi SAI, J 2008

Is not No Tomorrows (Oretachi ni asu wa naissu), R: Yuki TANADA, J 2008
oreasu.com

All Around Us (Gururi no koto), R: Ryosuke HASHIGUCHI, J 2008
www.gururinokoto.jp

Soup & Entertainment Special Live Performance
www.animationsoup.com

Benshi Brilliance! Hirono YAMADA’s Benshi of Heaven and Hirono YAMADA
www.katsuben.net

Catman, R: Ryosuke AOIKE (anime shorts)
www.aoike.ca

Detroit Metal City, R: Toshio LEE, J 2008
www.go-to-dmc.jp

digista vol. VII, J 2008 (shorts)
www.nhk.or.jp/digista

The First Seven Days (SAISHO no nanokakan), R: Hisashi SAITO, J 2008

Genius Party Beyond, R: Masahiro MAEDA, Koji Morimoto, Kazuto Nakazawa, Shinya Ohira, Tatsuyuki TANAKA, J 2008
www.genius-party.jp/beyond

Genius Party, R: Atsuko Fukushima, Shoji KAWAMORI, Shinji Kimura, Yoji Fukuyama, Hideki FUTAMURA, YUASA Masaaki, Shinichiro WATANABE, J 2007
www.genius-party.jp/genius01

Goodbye (Hebano), R: Bunyo KIMURA, J 2008
teamjudas.lomo.jp

GS Wonderland, R: Ryuichi Honda, J 2008
www.gs-w.jp

Hellsberg, R: Yoshinobu YAMAKAWA, J 2008, English subtitles
www.mv.avex.jp/hellsangels

Kanna’s Big Success! (Daiseiko Kanna-san desu!), R: Koichi INOUE, J 2008
http://www.kannasan.com/

The Kiss (Seppun), R: Kunitoshi MANDA, J 2008
www.seppun-movie.com

Koji MAEDA Special (shorts)
www.maeda-kouji.net

Koo-Ki Special (promotional clips)
www.koo-ki.co.jp/

Locked Out, R: Yasunobu TAKAHASHI, J 2008
http://ontheroadfilms.com

Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi), R: Sion SONO, J 2008
www.ai-muki.com

Mental (Seishin), R: Kazuhiro SODA, J / USA 2008
www.laboratoryx.us/mental

mime-mime, R: Yukiko SODE, J 2007
www.pia.co.jp/pff

Musabi Student Film Explosion (shorts)

Parting Present (Omiyage / Mibojin no mofuku-hoshii no …), R: Mamoru WATANABE, J 2008

Mononoke (Episode 10-12 “Bakeneko”), R: Kenji NAKAMURA, J 2007
www.mononoke-anime.com

Naked of Defenses (Mubobi), R: Masahide ICHII, J 2007
www.pia.co.jp/pff

Nightmare Detective 2 (Akumu tantei 2), R: Shinya TSUKAMOTO, J 2008
www.akumu-tantei.com

Non-Ko (Nonko 36 sai kaji tetsudai), R: Kazuyoshi KUMAKIRI, J 2008
www.nonko36.jp

Open Art Special: Hiroyuki NAKANO
www.open-art.tv

Hamlet Osaka (Osaka hamuretto), R: Fujiro MITSUISHI, J 2008
www.osaka-hamlet.jp

Peaches! (Momo matsuri) (Short Films)

Punch the Blue Sky (Aozora ponchi), R: Go Shibata, J 2008
aopon.jp

P**** Soup (Neko ramen Taisho), R: Minoru KAWASAKI, J 2008
www.neko-rahmen.com/movie.html

Serial Dad (Komori seikatsu Kojo club), R: Ikki KATASHIMA, J 2008
www.komoriclub.com

Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo), R: Hirokazu KORE-EDA, J 2008
www.aruitemo.com

Talk, Talk, Talk (Shaberedomo shaberedomo), R: Hideyuki HIRAYAMA, J 2007
www.shaberedomo.com

Tokyo Zokei University Special (shorts)

Tokyo Sonata, R: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan / Netherlands / Hong Kong 2008
www.tokyosonatamovie.com

The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei), R: Yoji Yamada, J 2002
www.shochiku.co.jp/movie/seibei/

The Two in Tracksuits (Jaji no futari), R: Yoshihiro NAKAMURA, J 2008
www.ja-zi2.jp

Vacation (Kyuka), R: Hajime KADOI, J 2008
http://www.eigakyuka.com

Yariman (Bara / Ya.ri.ma.n.), R: Sakamoto Rei

Yubari Fantastic Film Festival Special
http://yubarifanta.com/index_pc.php

NIPPON RETRO

Blue Film Woman (Buru firumu no onna, dir.), R: Kan Mukai, J 1969

Raigyo, R: Takahisa Zeze, J 1997

Gushing Prayer (Funshutsu kigan – 15sai no baishunfu), R: Masao ADACHI, J 1971

Secret Hot Spring Resort: Starfish at Night (Maruhi yu no machi: yoru no hitode), R: Mamoru WATANABE, J 1970

Abnormal Family: Older Brother’s Bride, R: Masayuki SUO, J 1984

S & M Hunter (Jigoku no ropa 2: Kinbaku SM 18-sai), R: Shuji Kataoka, J 1989

No Love Juice: Rustling In The Bed (Fuwa-fuwa to Beddoe no ue de), R: Kosuke TAKEDA, J 1999

Tears of ecstasy, R: Hiroyuki OKI, J 1995

NIPPON CULTURE

Opening with Roberto Cappelluti Lounge (Frankfurt) and Jörg Buttgereit (Berlin)
Nippon on Stage Concert with KUMISOLO – The Japanese pop queen Cheap!
Festival Party with Hito (Berlin) & Yogi (Tokyo / Frankfurt)
Virtual Bar
Sound spaces. Shinjuku-Hörspiel-Special (Amaterasu IN SHINJUKU by Malte Jaspersen / Lizy IN SHINJUKU Jörg Buttgereit)
Klang concert with silent film (Kompostion: HORI Tetsuya; Film: Yukihiro IKUTANI)
Late Lounge: Home Theater Reloaded (with Roberto Cappelluti and Jörg Buttgereit)
Koto and Shakuhachi Concert (Koto: Miyoko Oshima, shakuhachi: Tony Clark)
Tea Ceremony
Ko-Do, the Way of the fragrance. Japanese fragrance ceremony
Taiko Workshop (with Liliana Bulic Kony and Graner)
Butoh Dance Workshop (with Yuko Kaseki)
Sushi cooking class
Film Breakfast
Sake workshop and Sakelounge
Introduction to the Japanese onomatopoeia
J Mobile – Mobile entertainment culture. Japanology Lecture Series of the University of Frankfurt
Presentation by Marco Pellittieri “Some Notes on Japanese National Identity in Recent Anime”
Presentation by Sharon Kinsella “Shojo Kakumei: Men Imagining a Girl Revolution”
Panel discussion “What’s Up With The Women?”
Filmmaker Talks
climate elements: Süssbittere recipes (dance performance based on the novel “Kitchen” by Banana Yoshimoto)
body. space. time. – Japanese video-art exhibition and dance-video performance (Curated by Masayo KAJIMURA and Saskia Wendland)
Photo exhibition “Tokyo Total” (Photos: Laura J Gerlach, Curator: Dagmar furrier)
Photo installation “Cosplay: Kawaii, Cool and Out of the Ordinary?” of Jiré E Gözen
Stone Lanterns Exhibition
Soba-ya noodle soup bar
Karaoke
Tea Lounge
Sound Installation
Shiatsu Massage
Video Game Hell

Japanese Cinema
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Nippon Cinema
::: Outcast Cinema
::: Ryuganji
::: Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow

Nippon Connection 2009 – Select Titles Announced

blake — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:14:47 +0000

Nippon Connection (www.nipponconnection.com) easily rates as one of my all-time favorite film festivals to visit. It’s a small intimate 5 day celebration of Japanese cinema and culture that takes place each April in Frankfurt, Germany. It truly is a immersive and unique experience and highly recommended. Note that Chris from the great Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow will be out there this year covering it.

Titles Announced for 2009 Include:
NON-KO from Kazuyoshi KUMAKIRI
NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE 2 from Shinya TSUKAMOTO
TOKYO SONATA from Kiyoshi KUROSAWA
GENIUS PARTY and GENIUS PARTY BEYOND

Full press release follows… (Translated via Google into English)

Nippon Connection 2009 – The first Highlights

Soon holds back the Japanese film spring collection in Frankfurt! The Nippon Connection Film Festival showing of 15 to 19 April on the ninth time exciting, creative cinema from Japan. The festival presents more than 150 short and long films, a broad spectrum of avant-garde, anime blockbuster about to documentaries, many of them as Germany and European premieres. Some 20 filmmakers will present their works in Frankfurt person.

A few highlights of the festival, we can already tell you: The exceptional talent will Kazuyoshi KUMAKIRI at Nippon Connection than Germany premiere his new film NON-KO imagine. Again, he shows once again that he is a master when it comes to deep into the essence of the human follicle and this show. With tension is also expected NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE 2, from cult director Shinya TSUKAMOTO. The already on the Cannes Film Festival celebrated film TOKYO SONATA by Kiyoshi KUROSAWA shows the creeping disintegration of a family. Of course, may also not be missing Japanese animes. We show below the other two compilations GENIUS PARTY and GENIUS PARTY BEYOND from the forge creative studio 4 Â° C, with works such as “Tekkon Kinkreet” and “Mind Game” is known.

For the fifth time, the audience prize Nippon Cinema Award in the amount of 2,000 euros awarded to this year, the Metzler Bank donates. After the festival in Frankfurt, part of the digital program as Nippon Connection Film Festival on Tour around the World. The plan will include performances in Munich, New York and Barcelona.

But film fans not only come at Nippon Connection at their expense. The extensive program Nippon Culture, visitors can fully into the Japanese culture and provide them with all your senses. A focus this year is the theme of “Sounds”. Because Japan is not only with the eyes, but also to discover the ears. Sound installations, radio plays and a concert sound Japan by presenting the acoustic side. In the gallery station in KÃ¼nstlerhaus Mousonturm this year there will be an exhibition of contemporary Japanese video art. Nippon Culture also offers the popular cooking course again by the Japanese Consulate General, a tea ceremony, tea lounge, noodle soup bar, karaoke, parties, concerts and more.

Venues:
Student house on campus Bockenheim (Festival Center), heirs Orfeos Cinema, Cinema in the German Film Museum, Gallery station in KÃ¼nstlerhaus Mousonturm.

www.nipponconnection.com
(Our new website is not yet online, it takes a little bit ….)

The complete program we announced in early March.

Japanese Cinema
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Nippon Cinema
::: Outcast Cinema
::: Ryuganji
::: Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow