I finally found the time to watch the first Otoko wa Tsurai Yo. I can’t even say it is one of my favorites, but even so I have already seen it many times. Just last summer, I went to Nara, so of course I wanted to see the sites that Tora saw there. So to prepare for that trip I… Read more →
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Cocktail Party at the Minato-ku Azabu Civic Center
I have been a long time subscriber to the SSJ-Forum, which these days is almost entirely announcements for various academic panels, conferences, and seminars for professors and academics and such. Every once in a while I manage to attend one or two. Today, though, ICAS at Temple University sent out a message advertising an upcoming film screening of Cocktail Party,… Read more →
Movies About Tokyo
This post is a little different than the (few) previous ones. Instead of talking about films showing in Tokyo, it is a list of films about or set in Tokyo. This week I am curating the @beingtokyo account on twitter. (More info on that here). Beyond just talking about what I am doing in Greater Tokyo, I thought it might… Read more →