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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Japanese Cinema</title>
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		<title>ANIME! High Art &#8211; Pop Culture</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/anime-high-art-pop-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 23:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akira]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Filmmuseum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dragon Ball Z: The Dead Zone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pokemon: The Movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Princess Mononoke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shojo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shonen]]></category>
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Wedding Peach, Akira, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

&#34;ANIME! High Art &#8211; Pop Culture,&#34; a multimedia exhibition  spotlighting the art of Japanese animation, will have  its American premiere at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences  on Friday, May 15, in the Grand Lobby and  Fourth Floor galleries in Beverly Hills. ANIME! will be on display through August 23. Admission is free.
Featuring nearly 400 cels,  clips and character models, &#34;ANIME!&#34;  will be organized thematically: boys&#8217; anime (Shonen), girls&#8217;  anime (Shojo), early anime, Studio Ghibli, science fiction and fantasy, in addition to an adults-only area dedicated to erotic anime. 
As per the Academy&#8217;s press release, &#34;the  exhibition will explore anime&#8217;s history, aesthetics and production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nagisa Oshima at the American Cinematheque</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/nagisa-oshima-american-cinematheque/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/nagisa-oshima-american-cinematheque/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cruel Story of Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egyptian Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eiko Matsuda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire of the Senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the Realm of the Senses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janus Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Summer: Double Suicide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nagisa Oshima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleasures of the Flesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychological Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tatsuya Fuji]]></category>

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&#8220;No other director of Oshima&#8217;s generation has made more  vital, inventive and challenging films, or taken more risks. He is a giant in contemporary  cinema.&#8221; &#8211; Tony Rayns
 &#8220;Plainly the greatest living Japanese filmmaker.&#8221; &#8211;  Jonathan Rosenbaum
&#8220;Japan&#8217;s greatest living filmmaker.&#8221; &#8211; J.  Hoberman 
Those in the Los Angeles area can judge for themselves as Nagisa Oshima is the subject of an eight-film series from April 23-26 at the American Cinematheque&#8217;s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The Oshima series is being presented in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (which will have its own Oshima series in May) and is co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation.
&#34;I am not interested in making films that can be understood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEBAUCHED DESIRES: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/debauched-desires-masaru-konuma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/sex/debauched-desires-masaru-konuma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Erotic Diary of an Office Lady]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erotic Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hideo Nakata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KimStim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kino International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Masaru Konuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Tani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Pink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tattooed Flower Vase]]></category>
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PRESS RELEASE
Kino International and KimStim are proud to release the four-DVD set Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma.
Directed by the master of Japanese erotic cinema Masaru Konuma, CLOISTERED NUN: RUNA&#8217;S CONFESSION (1976), TATTOOED FLOWER VASE (1976), EROTIC DIARY OF AN OFFICE LADY (1977) and a re-mastered version of WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED (1975) are now available in one four-DVD set at the reduced price of $49.95. Previously, each of these films was available at $29.95.
The street date for Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma is May 19, 2009.
&#34;Stylishly directed and singularly harrowing&#34; (Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia), these four films are classic examples of pink cinema, a style of Japanese, softcore theatrical films which was common in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOKYO SONATA d: Kiyoshi Kurosawa</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/tokyo-sonata-kiyoshi-kurosawa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/tokyo-sonata-kiyoshi-kurosawa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Akiko Ashizawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dysfunctional Families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Drama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haruka Igawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inowaki Kai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kanji Tsuda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kazuya Kogima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koji Yakusho]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Max Mannix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socially Conscious Movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yu Koyanagi]]></category>

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Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Direction: Kyoshi Kurosawa
Screenplay: Kyoshi Kurosawa, Max Mannix, Tachiko Tanaka
Cast: Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Inowaki Kai, Yû Koyanagi, Kôji Yakusho, Haruka Igawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kazuya Kogima

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Some reviews and commentaries describe Tokyo Sonata, winner of this year&#8217;s Asian Film Awards for best film and best screenplay, as showing the disintegration of an &#34;ordinary&#34; Japanese family after the husband-father gets laid off from his administrative post at a big corporation. Although technically that is an accurate summary of Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s study of social and personal roles in Japanese society, it doesn&#8217;t quite indicate all that happens in this curious, beautifully shot, delicately directed, and capably acted drama.
Written by  Kurosawa (known for his horror films, and no relation to Akira), Max [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOKYO SONATA, I LOVE YOU, MAN Buzz</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/asian-cinema/tokyo-sonata-i-love-you-man-buzz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[German Cinema]]></category>
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At GreenCine Daily, Vadim Risov on Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s Tokyo Sonata, which opened this weekend in New York (it&#8217;ll open in Los Angeles on March 27):
&#34;Two-thirds of the way in, Tokyo  Sonata is a nicely observed  low-key  drama just unnerving enough to keep you on edge: Kurosawa&#8217;s framing is  always a bit cluttered and claustrophobic, and his willingness to sit  and watch for a little too long makes it seem like violent disaster is  always just on the verge of breaking out. And then suddenly it does  and all hell breaks out.&#34;
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At Cinematical, Eugene Novikov is enthusiastic about Paul Rudd&#8217;s star turn in the comedy I Love You, Man, directed by John Hamburg, written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Academy Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/japanese-academy-awards-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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2009 Japanese Academy Awards
2009 Japanese Academy Award winners: Feb. 20, 2009
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Yojiro Takita&#8217;s Departures, about an unemployed cellist who finds work as a professional corpse-beautician of sorts, was the big winner at the 2009 Japanese Academy Awards, bagging a total of 10 trophies (out of 13 nominations), including  best film, best director,  best actor (Masahiro Motoki), best supporting actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki),  best supporting actress (Kimiko Yo) and best screenplay (Kundo Koyama),  along with wins for cinematography, lighting, sound and editing.
In addition to winning this year&#8217;s best foreign-language film Oscar, Departures also took top prizes at the Montreal and Palm Springs film festivals, and, with a US$32 million gross, has turned out to be  one of Japan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RASHOMON: Monday Nights with Oscar</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rashomon-monday-nights-with-oscar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/rashomon-monday-nights-with-oscar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the next film presented as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ series “Monday Nights with  Oscar.” The  East Coast premiere of the new  digitally restored print of  Rashomon  will take place on Monday, November 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the  Academy Theater in New York City.
Though it revolves around the rape of a woman and the murder of her Samurai husband, Rashomon, co-adapted by Kurosawa and Shinobu Hashimoto from Ryunosuke Akutagawa&#8217;s  stories &#34;Rashomon&#34; and &#34;In a Grove,&#34;  is less a crime drama than an examination of the mind-boggling nature of truth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/batman-gotham-knight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reginald Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Batman: Gotham Knight  (2008)
Direction: Shoijiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Jong-Sik Nam. Screenplay: Brian Azzarello, Alan Burnett, Jordan Goldberg, David S. Goyer, Josh Olson, Greg Rucka; based on Bob Kane&#8217;s character. Voices: Kevin Conroy, David McCallum, Gary Dourdan, Corey Burton, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Kevin Michael Richardson, George Newbern
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Batman: Gotham Knight is a direct-to-DVD animated film in six segments, each directed by a different East Asian filmmaker. The animation quality, both in terms of character and environment detail, exceeds that of the animation found in all the Batman: The Animated Series, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and all the other Batman animated films. The fore and backgrounds aren&#8217;t after thoughts; they have as much care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SISTERS OF THE GION d: Kenji Mizoguchi</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sisters-of-the-gion-kenji-mizoguchi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gion no shimai / Sisters of the Gion (1936)
Direction: Kenji Mizoguchi. Screenplay: Kenji Mizoguchi and Yoshikata Yoda; from Aleksandr Kuprin&#8217;s novel. Cast: Isuzu Yamada, Yôko Umemura, Benkei Shiganoya, Fumio Okura
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Business is contingent upon profitable commercial transactions. Exchanges that removed from human instigation are cold but necessary for survival. Success, no matter strategy or plan, is propelled or hindered by fate, though this variable holds no emotional consequence. Of course, companies are usually created to make money and are not breathing, feeling entities. Yet humans are behind these enterprises, and with or without this extension also pursue financial success &#8212; but those entail emotional risks.
Individuals are likewise driven to establish personal security and this basic idea is a primary concern of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SANSHO THE BAILIFF d: Kenji Mizoguchi</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/sansho-the-bailiff-by-kenji-mizoguchi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Schneider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sanshô Dayû / Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Direction: Kenji Mizoguchi. Screenplay: Fuji Yahiro; from the old legend and Ogai Mori&#8217;s 1915 short story &#8220;Sansho the Steward.&#8221; Cast: Shindô Eitarô, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi
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By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
One of the nostra about Japanese film director Kenji Mizoguchi is that he is &#8216;the most Japanese of all filmmakers.&#8217; Another is that, compared to his two titanic contemporaries, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa, Mizoguchi was the hardest to pin down in a style or genre. Having just watched Sanshô Dayû / Sansho the Bailiff (1954) I can agree with both of the above sentiments.
 First, Mizoguchi excels at the jidai-geki (historical drama) genre. Second, whereas Ugetsu Monogatari (the only other Mizoguchi film I&#8217;ve seen) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian Film Awards &#8211; 2007 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/asian-film-awards-2007-winners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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&#34;It&#8217;s almost strange that it&#8217;s the first ceremony,&#34; remarked French director Luc Besson at the 1st Asian Film Awards presentation held this evening at Hong Kong&#8217;s Convention and Exhibition Centre, as part of the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival which kicked off last night.
&#34;Good films come from everywhere,&#34; added Besson. &#34;Artists are like mushrooms, a little sun, a little water and they grow, they don&#8217;t need passports, visas to create.&#34;
The South Korean sci-fi-horror, political suspense thriller, and comedy-drama (yup, it&#8217;s all that) Gwoemul / The Host came out as the big winner of the evening, with a total of four awards: best film, best actor (Song Kang-ho, left, as the film&#8217;s ditzy blond), best cinematographer (Kim Hyung-goo), and best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16 Animated Features Vying for a 2006 Oscar Nod</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/16-animated-features-vying-for-a-2006-oscar-nod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA &#8212; With 16 animated features submitted for consideration in 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences anticipates that its Animated Feature Film category, for the first time since 2002, may include a full slate of five nominees.
The 16 features expected to compete for 79th Academy Awards&#174; nominations are:
The Ant Bully
Arthur and the Invisibles
Barnyard
Cars
Curious George
Everyone&#8217;s Hero
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Ice Age The Meltdown
Monster House
Open Season
Over the Hedge
Paprika
Renaissance
A Scanner Darkly
The Wild
Arthur and the Invisibles, Happy Feet and Paprika have not yet had their required Los Angeles releases. If any one of the group were not to meet that requirement, the field in the category would fall below 16, the number required to trigger the five-nominee slate. With 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emilio Estevez&#8217;s BOBBY opens AFI FEST 2006</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/emilio-estevezs-bobby-opens-afi-fest-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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The AFI FEST 2006, which takes off tonight at the Grauman&#8217;s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, will screen Emilio Estevez&#8217;s Bobby as its opening-night gala presentation.
From the AFI press release:
AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi: AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival announces that Emilio Estevez&#8217;s Bobby has been chosen as the Festival&#8217;s Opening Night Gala presentation. Written and directed by Emilio Estevez, Bobby revisits the night Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968. This presentation will mark the film&#8217;s US premiere.
The film features a remarkable ensemble cast including: Harry Belafonte, Joy Bryant, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Brian Geraghty, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Hunt, Joshua Jackson, David Krumholtz, Ashton Kutcher, Shia LaBeouf, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICHI RAZORBLADES Controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/censorship/ichi-razortoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via the BBC: The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has ordered more than three minutes cut from Koroshiya 1 / Ichi the Killer, a Japanese film that depicts graphic scenes of &#34;extreme sexual violence.&#34; That represents the BBFC&#8217;s biggest demand for an &#34;editing job&#34; in about a decade. 
Described by its distributor, Medusa Pictures, as an &#34;ultra-controversial piece of manga mayhem,&#34; Ichi the Killer includes scenes of naked women being sexually mutilated, beaten, and killed. &#34;These scenes,&#34; stated the BBFC, &#34;appear to the board to have no function other than the pleasure of the onlooker.&#34; When the film was shown at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival, organizers provided sick bags to the audience.
Directed by Takashi Miike (&#212;dishon / Audition), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shohei Imamura</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/directors/obit-shohei-imamura-1926-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-time Palme d&#8217;Or winner Shohei Imamura died in Tokyo on May 30. The 79-year-old Japanese filmmaker had been suffering from liver cancer.
Born in Tokyo in 1926, Imamura entered a technical school in order to avoid being drafted into Japan&#8217;s Imperial Army. His studies at the renowned Waseda University were followed by work as an assistant director to the likes of Yasujiro Ozu (in Tokyo monogatari / Tokyo Story, 1953) and Kinuyo Tanaka (in Tsuki wa noborinu / The Moon Has Risen, 1955).
Imamura, often writing his own screenplays, began working as a full-fledged feature-film director in 1958. His socially conscious films frequently focused on those at the bottom of Japan&#8217;s rigid social structure, and featured sex as a major topic. Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRINCESS RACCOON d: Seijun Suzuki</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/princess-raccoon-seijun-suzuki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operetta tanuki goten / Princess Raccoon (2005)
Director: Seijun Suzuki. Screenplay: Yoshio Urasawa. Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Jô Odagiri, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Saori Yuki
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One of my two favorite films of the AFI FEST 2005 &#8212; Caché / Hidden was the other one &#8212; took me completely by surprise. Seijun Suzuki&#8217;s delightful musical fairy tale, Operetta tanuki goten / Princess Raccoon, consists of an eclectic mix of abstract and natural settings, catchy tunes ranging from mild rap to hot salsa, myriad plot twists and turns, special effects that are purposefully &#8212; and beautifully &#8212; simple (one such brings back from the dead veteran actress Hibari Misora), plus dialogue in a variety of languages. The result is a magical &#8212; if challenging &#8212; mélange perfectly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Film Series at MoMA</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/japanese-film-series-at-moma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 01:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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This fall, New York City&#8217;s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is presenting the film series &#34;Early Autumn: Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the National Film Center, Tokyo.&#34; 
The series consists of fifty-three classic Japanese films made between 1929 and 1970, which have been loaned out by the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art for the first time in the history of that institution. 
Every print screened in the series is in 35mm and has been newly struck from archival negatives, with new English subtitles created by the National Film Center. 
Schedule:
Among the directors represented in the series are Kon Ichikawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Nagisa Oshima, Yasujiro Ozu, Heinosuke Gosho, [...]]]></description>
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