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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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“Snow on the Blades” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 21, 2015 | No Comments"Snow on the Blades" (柘榴坂の仇討) is a jidai-geki film that has become the norm for far too long. Its gravest sin is its utter lack of dramatic conflict. -
“Round Trip Heart” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 19, 2015 | No CommentsYuki Tanada’s eighth feature is a quaint unassuming road trip picture that that barely makes an impression on the viewer after the end credits begin to roll. -
“Meeting Dr. Sun” – 2015 NYAFF Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 18, 2015 | No Comments"Meeting Dr. Sun" is a subversive film whose acerbic wit illustrates how the 99% will rise up and easily steal back what was rightfully taken from them. -
“Belladonna of Sadness” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 14, 2015 | No CommentsThe third picture in the Animerama trilogy, "Belladonna of Sadness" (哀しみのベラドンナ, 1973) blew away the established aesthetic and thematic norms of the time. -
“Strayer’s Chronicle” – 2015 Japan Cuts Film Review
Rex BaylonPosted on June 13, 2015 | No Comments"Strayer's Chronicle" is an empty husk that has all the requisite parts of an entertaining comic book movie, but doesn’t even manage to be interesting. -
Film Review: Dante Lam’s “That Demon Within” (魔警)
Rex BaylonPosted on June 12, 2015 | No CommentsThe world that Dante Lam creates in "That Demon Within" is a bleak, oppressive one. Bad men are worse than we thought and good guys are tragic heroes. -
Film Review: “Neko Samurai ～Samurai ♥ Cat～” (猫侍)
Rex BaylonPosted on June 10, 2015 | No CommentsAs a cat lover maybe I am preternaturally disposed to liking this film, but so what? Yoshitaka Yamaguchi’s "Neko Samurai" is a pure delight to watch. -
Red carpet: J KOO Fall 2015 – Seoul Fashion Week
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on May 23, 2015 | No CommentsSeveral actors attended the J KOO Fall 2015 runway show at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, including Kim So-eun (김소은) and Lee Hyun-woo (이현우). -
Film Review: Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room”
Jim HigginsPosted on May 11, 2015 | No Comments"The Room" occasionally borders on the surreal. But when looked at objectively, it has a story that seems like a romance novel with the gender roles reversed. -
A Tommy Wiseau interview: “The Room,” RiffTrax & chickens
Jim HigginsPosted on May 6, 2015 | No CommentsWiseau talked to Meniscus Magazine about "The Room," its upcoming RiffTrax performances, his comedy series The Neighbors on Hulu and many other things.