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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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North Korea Archive
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Where North Koreans watch films: A look into several Pyongyang movie theaters
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 9, 2018 | No CommentsThe Pyongyang International Film Festival is a rare opportunity for foreigners to watch movies alongside locals in a select number of theaters. -
2016 Pyongyang International Film Festival Opening Ceremony highlights
Meniscus MagazinePosted on November 13, 2016 | No CommentsFounded in 1987, the event now takes place every even year at theatres across the North Korean capital. -
Film Review: “The Lovers and the Despot”
Christopher BournePosted on September 29, 2016 | No CommentsThe story of two South Koreans drafted into making films in North Korea potentially makes for a great movie. “The Lovers and the Despot” isn’t that film. -
“The Story of Our Home” – 2016 Pyongyang Film Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 22, 2016 | No CommentsThe North Korean film "The Story of Our Home" (우리 집 이야기) is loosely based on the true story of the country's "girl mother." -
“Comrade Kim Goes Flying” – 2013 MIFF Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on August 15, 2013 | No Comments"Comrade Kim Goes Flying" - a collaboration between North Korea and the West - focuses on a plucky daughter of a coal miner who wants to be an acrobat. -
“Aim High in Creation!” – 2013 MIFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 9, 2013 | No CommentsA kooky premise for director Anna Broinowski brings her to North Korea to learn from the very best filmmakers in her documentary, "Aim High in Creation!" -
DPRK Film: “Centre Forward” – 2013 MIFF Review
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on July 28, 2013 | No Comments"Centre Forward," an entertaining North Korean film about football, screens as part of a DPRK showcase at the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival. -
DPRK Film Review: Kim Kil-in’s “Hong Kil Dong”
Christopher BournePosted on May 11, 2012 | No Comments"Hong Kil Dong" is a rather diverting, if a little creaky, North Korean martial-arts action flick surprisingly free of overt ideological content. -
DPRK Film Reviews: “Bellflower,” “My Look in the Distant Future”
Christopher BournePosted on February 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe melodramatic sugar makes the ideological medicine go down in "Bellflower." "My Look in the Distant Future" exhorts its viewers to look to the future.