The Alien Times just received the following information from Ms. Suzuki.
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Contemporary Japanese food culture
documentary “eatrip” will be screened with English subtitles at 19:15 on Monday 6th, 15th and 22nd, June at the Ebisu Garden cinema.
“eatrip” will be presented in the Documentaries of the World section of the Montreal World Film Festival 2009.
■About “eatrip”
http://jp.truveo.com/trailer-eatrip/id/313405396
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fq20090612a1.html
http://eatrip.jp/
DINNER TIME!!!
“eatrip” [...]

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Shaney on October 12th, 2007

2007 KVA Festival Department of Global Communication Movie Party
Classic Japanese Cinema with English Subtitles
VENUE: Tsukuba Gakuin University, Room 1311
SATURDAY, October 27
11:00-12:10…… Sisters of the Gion (Mizoguchi, 1936; 66 minutes)
12:15-14:00…… Late Spring (Ozu, 1949; 90 minutes)
14:10-16:40…… Ikiru (Kurosawa, 1952; 143 minutes)
16:50-18:40…… Late Chrysanthemums (Naruse, 1954; 101 minutes)
SPECIAL EVENING SHOW:
18:45-20-45…… The Funeral (Itami, [...]

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Sometimes just going with the flow and letting CONNECTIONS take you from one thing to the next can lead to exciting discoveries. This is exactly what happened the other day as I was preparing for a recent Tsukublog entry on the wild berries which grow so profusely in my garden. Doing the obligatory Google search, [...]

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Avi Landau on December 7th, 2007

Since the success of the international hit Shall We Dance (1996), Japanese film producers have been regularly investing in the genre which can be called O-keikomono (お稽古物). Those of you who are active in martial arts will be familiar with the word keiko, which means training, and the above-mentioned term can be used to [...]

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The What Japan Thinks site translated a poll by DIMSDRIVE Research in which Japanese people were asked what Japanese movies they would recommend to foreigners.
The series of movies entitled “It’s Hard Being a Man” (男はつらいよ) was recommended the most by both men and women. I haven’t seen it, but I have heard of [...]

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