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In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
05 August 2025 4:59 AM | No CommentsSon Heung-min leaves Tottenham Hotspur having made 333 appearances for the club over 10 seasons.
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“A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
16 July 2025 12:42 PM | No CommentsTime travel is a well-worn trope, but there is a reason that the low-budget “A Samurai in Time” managed to win Best Film honors at the Japan Academy Film Prize.
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Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
29 June 2025 11:58 AM | No CommentsThe Japanese artist, both in physical presence and in spirit, seamlessly crossed over to the worlds of art, fashion, sports and even food.
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Paris 2024: Gymnastics – U.S. women victorious in “Redemption Tour”
29 June 2025 2:46 AM | No CommentsThere should have been no doubt: the U.S. women were the favorites to win the Olympic gold. And yet there was, stemming from what happened in Tokyo.
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Paris 2024: U.S. women hang on to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold
23 June 2025 11:54 AM | No CommentsThe U.S. women's team held off France, 67-66, at Bercy Arena.
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Film Archive
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![Tale of Cinema, Hong’s sixth feature, is an incredibly witty and playful meditation on the confluence of life and cinema. Over the course of twelve films, Hong has […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TaleOfCinema_01-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”
Christopher BournePosted on March 7, 2012 | No CommentsTale of Cinema, Hong’s sixth feature, is an incredibly witty and playful meditation on the confluence of life and cinema. Over the course of twelve films, Hong has […] -
Film Review: So Yong Kim’s “Treeless Mountain”
Christopher BournePosted on March 2, 2012 | No CommentsSo Yong Kim's ineffably lovely second feature "Treeless Mountain" focuses on two sisters and their increasingly precarious existence. -
![Shinya Tsukamoto’s beautiful film Vital (2004), one of the great highlights of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” continues his filmic exploration of the human […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/vital_8-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Vital”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Vital”
Christopher BournePosted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsShinya Tsukamoto’s beautiful film Vital (2004), one of the great highlights of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” continues his filmic exploration of the human […] -
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. -
Review: Andrea Arnold’s “Red Road”
Christopher BournePosted on February 17, 2012 | No CommentsAndrea Arnold’s debut film "Red Road" is equal parts "Rear Window" and "Blow-Up," updated with evocations of post-9/11 surveillance. -
![Bela Tarr’s second feature The Outsider (1981), which recently screened as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Tarr retrospective “The Last Modernist,” right at the outset […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/The+Outsider-115x115.jpg "Review: Bela Tarr’s “The Outsider”")
Review: Bela Tarr’s “The Outsider”
Christopher BournePosted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsBela Tarr’s second feature The Outsider (1981), which recently screened as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Tarr retrospective “The Last Modernist,” right at the outset […] -
![Nishi Ginza Station (1958) was Imamura’s second film, a studio assignment made as a vehicle for popular singer Frank Nagai. Imamura was able to use this as a vehicle for […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/nishiginza_Large-115x115.jpg "Review: Shohei Imamura’s “Nishi Ginza Station”")
Review: Shohei Imamura’s “Nishi Ginza Station”
Christopher BournePosted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsNishi Ginza Station (1958) was Imamura’s second film, a studio assignment made as a vehicle for popular singer Frank Nagai. Imamura was able to use this as a vehicle for […] -
Review: Park Jin-pyo’s “Voice of a Murderer”
Christopher BournePosted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe chilling docudrama Voice of a Murderer is one of the best films by Park Jin-pyo, one of Korea’s most interesting directors. His previous features Too Young to Die […] -
Film Review: Wong Kar-wai’s “My Blueberry Nights”
Christopher BournePosted on February 3, 2012 | No CommentsWhile "My Blueberry Nights" is not Wong's best film, it is a beautiful piece of work that finds his patented Wong style successfully transplanted to the US. -
Review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Retribution”
Christopher BournePosted on January 27, 2012 | No CommentsKiyoshi Kurosawa is one of the most consistently interesting stylists in Japanese cinema. His films can be superficially associated with the “J-Horror” genre, but anyone familiar with his work […]