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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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Film Archive
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刘成达的《口袋里的花》
Christopher BournePosted on October 31, 2016 | No Comments你可以把这部电影看成是马来西亚版的《400击》。 《口袋里的花》，刘成达的处女作，于2008年在美 国亚裔国际电影节上崭露头角，也是目前马来西亚涌 现出来的多产的电影之星中另一个绝好的典范。 -
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." -
“A Quiet Outpost” – 2016 Pyongyang Film Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 21, 2016 | No CommentsBased on the history of Russians guarding the Afghan-Tajik border in the early post-USSR ‘90s, "A Quiet Outpost" suffers due to a bloated narrative. -
Daniel Gordon’s “Hillsborough” – 2016 Pyongyang Film Review
Meniscus MagazinePosted on September 21, 2016 | No CommentsAn update of the 2014 documentary recounts the tragic story of how 96 people died at the 1989 F.A. Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. -
“Chan Is Missing” found again in New York
Christopher BournePosted on September 9, 2016 | No CommentsWayne Wang’s landmark film “Chan Is Missing,” now being revived in 35mm, remarkably feels just as fresh, original, and revelatory 34 years later. -
Film Review: “Operation Chromite”
Christopher BournePosted on August 22, 2016 | No Comments“Operation Chromite”’s main weakness is that it treats all its characters as cardboard patriotic symbols rather than actual relatable people. -
Film Review: “Tamako in Moratorium”
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on August 13, 2016 | No CommentsYet another addition to the NEET character genre in Japanese film, Nobuhiro Yamashita's "Tamako in Moratorium" (もらとりあむタマ子) is an artsy work full of unrealized potential. -
Johnnie To’s “Three” (三人行) – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Christopher BournePosted on August 3, 2016 | No CommentsA return to his familiar milieu of cops and gangsters, "Three" continues To’s experiments in combining theatrical and cinematic space. -
“Train to Busan” (부산행) – 2016 Fantasia Film Review
Paul KazeePosted on August 2, 2016 | No CommentsCritics have been nearly unanimous in calling "Train to Busan" one of the best zombie flicks in years, and while it is that, it also has glaring flaws.