Here we are! The Japanese Cinema Blogathon 2009 is now open until June 21st! With more than 20 blogs/sites participating, there should be enough fun for everyone!
■ By the way, what’s a blogathon? Everything you need to know about it!
■ You’ll find here every articles published during the event. If your article hasn’t been added yet, mail me or leave a comment.
■ Looking for ideas? Want to know what’s happening? See that:
Monday, June 15th
• Koji Wakamatsu’s Cycling Chronicles, Semiotics and the Landscape Theory. Thanks Eigagogo, now we have at least 10 new j-films to watch this week!!
• Wildgrounds tells us what he likes about Japanese Cinema. What do you think?
• [EN/DE] Two clips from Nekomimi Senki: Akanex & Aobuckle; If you love catgirls, fights, weird monsters and… strange evil women, just try it!
• REVIEWS, 1 Drama & 4 Chambara! Kinoshita’s Immortal Love; Kudo’s Samurai Revolution Trilogy; Rise Against the Sword with Toshiro Mifune!
• [FR] Why you should watch Ghost in the shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Movie Feast about Hideo Gosha’s Bandits vs Samurai Squadron!
• What you didn’t see in Eiichi Kudo’s The Thirteen Assassins (to be remade by Miike).
• [FR] Dooliblog got the chance to watch and review Koreeda’s Air Doll!
• Nihon Cine Art gives his Top 3 Miike films. What’s yours? Publish it!
• [PL] Review from Poland; Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri!!
• Divers & Sundry has listed his blog posts about japanese films.
• [FR] The 3rd part of Hard Boiled’s Top 30 Japanese films!
• Want to watch some Japanese Commercials starring Charles Bronson?
• If you only ever see one Japanese movie…make sure it’s Battle Royale!
Tuesday, June 16th
• Interview about Asian/Japanese Cinema In Poland
• [FR] What Bob Critique hates about Japanese Cinema; why not!?
• NipponCinema‘s favorite Japanese directors!
• Shrooms + Monsters + Horror = Matango
• Reviews: Nomura’s Zero Focus & The Demon
• Review: Kitamura’s Aragami
• Reviews: Yanagimachi’s Who’s Camus Anyway? & Oguri’s Sleeping Man
• Wildgrounds‘ favorite Japanese directors
• Review: Kurahara’s Black Sun
• Nihon Cine Art‘s favorite Japanese directors!
• Audition Special Edition Announced!
• Photographic PROOF that Meiko Kaji is the Ultimate Badass
• My undying love for Ultraman
• Amy tells us what she likes about Japanese Cinema!
• Opening Gambits: Suzuki’s Kanto Wanderer & Detective Bureau 2-3
• Japanese Cinematography Sampler!
• Two of the Best Film Titles Ever
Wednesday, June 17th
• Japanese Cinema & Youtubers You Should Subscribe To
• Review: Kinji Fukasaku’s The Yakuza Papers
• It’s already been 10 years since Audition came out?!?!
• The Top10 Japanese Films I Watch this Past Year
• Japanese Cinema: Not For Everyone?!?
• Review: Yamada’s Home from the Sea
• Review: Marker’s documentary about Kurosawa & the making of Ran
• A Sad Story: Japan, Subtitles and Blu-ray Disc
• Akira, The movie that woke the world up to anime
• Review: Funeral Parade of Roses
• [PL] 10 Samurai Films You Can’t Miss – Part1
• Review: Female Demon Ohyaku!
• Why Japanese DVDs aren’t English Subbed?
• Nihon Cine Art‘s favorite Japanese trailers
• [FR] Eastern Promises: Cronenberg’s Yakuza-eiga?
• Kill Bill’s The Bride is nothing without Meiko Kaji
• Nishikata‘s favorite Japanese directors!
Thursday, June 18th
• WG‘s 10 Best Japanese Movie Soundtracks
• Amy about Japanese Dvds & subtitles
• Why I Love Ozu!
• Japanese filmmakers who inspire me.
• Nishikata‘s favourite mainstream Japanese animators
• Review: Big Man – surreal superhero satire
• [PL] 10 Samurai Films You Can’t Miss – Part2
• Patrick Galloway’s Review: Infection
• [FR] Tetsuo & Tetsuo II de Shinya Tsukamoto!
• Trailer for Nikkatsu Action’s A Colt Is My Passport!
Friday, June 19th
• How to Make People Watch Japanese Cinema?
• Marc’s Revision of Nagisa Oshima
• Some Old-School Japanese Film Posters!
• 5 Random Lesser-Known Jidaigeki or Chambara 01
• Review: Shinoda’s Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
• Galloway’s Review: Entrails of a Beautiful Woman
• Some Favorite Japanese Films
• Black Hole’s top 10 favourite Japanese movies so far…
• Kurosawa Blu-Ray collection?!?!?
• [FR] Tsukamoto, clipper malgré lui ?
• Trailer for Nikkatsu Action’s Rusty Knife
• Review: Hiroshi Shimizu’s A Perfect Summer Treat
Saturday, June 20th
• [FR] Takashi Ishii’s Angel Guts: the Original Manga!
• Adam Hartzell’s Oshima Reading Guide
• How to write about Japanese Films
• 2, 3 or 4 directors I’d like to know much more
• David Desser’s article on Koreeda’s Maboroshi
• My favorite “what if” scenario…
• JP Films = Women’s cinema?
• Review: Return of the Street Fighter (1974)
• Review: Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro
• Review: Kurosawa’s The Quiet Duel
• Review of Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
• [DE] Review of Love Exposure
• Some Japanese Chick-centric Films or with Female Leads
• 10 Japanese Movies You Must See
Sunday, June 21st
• 5 Random Lesser-Known Jidaigeki or Chambara 02
• Remembering Yasuharu Hasebe (1932-2009)
• Japanese women behind the scenes
• Review of Woman in the Dunes
• [FR] Analyse de Suicide Club
• What about director Nobuhiro Yamashita?
• Review of Sonatine
• DVD of the Week – Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu Box Set
• A Japanese drama shot in Thailand
• Review: Shinoda’s Double Suicide
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My first offering is up, looking at the two Yoshitaro Nomura films that Home Vision released on DVD a couple of years ago. You can find it here: http://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2009/06/two-by-yoshitaro-nomura.html
My First contribution
My Undying Love For Ultraman
http://cinematografodeitrash.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-undying-love-for-ultraman.html
My second posting is up: http://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2009/06/opening-gambits-suzukis-kanto-wanderer.html
My first posting is up – a review of Chris Marker’s documentary about AKira Kurosawa and the making of Ran
http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2009/06/ak-akira-kurosawa-chris-marker-1985.html
http://is.gd/14Hcw
The Bride is Nothing Without Meiko Kaji
My favourite mainstream Japanese animators is up:
http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-favourite-animators-mainstream.html
Tomorrow, I’ll cover art animators
My favorite Japanese Art Animators, for those who like more avant-garde fare: http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-favourite-japanese-art-animators.html
Added a review for “Under the Blossoming Cherry Tree” today.
I added another post today on some of my favorite Japanese films: http://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-favorite-japanese-films.html
Love the way this is going.
It would be great if Asia Shock site had a ‘blog-a-thon’ banner to promote others sites content as well
Just added another post, this time on the recent Eclipse set Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu. Check it out here: http://subtitleliterate.blogspot.com/2009/06/hiroshi-shimizu-perfect-summer-treat.html
I added a new post “2, 3 or 4 directors I’d like to know much more”. Sorry for poor English.
http://emls.jugem.jp/?eid=287
@Eat Much, Learn Slow
Great post! it’s nice to see japanese blogger discussing japanese cinema on western site
By the way, i posted a comment on your blog but got an ‘error’ (2 times!)
@Martin,
Thanks for your comment. I am very excited to see so many bloggers from all over the world discussing Japanese cinema! There are so many great blogs written in Japanese, though, I’d love to be here with you.
To post a comment on my blog, you have to put a 4-digit number displayed in the grey box. This is to block spams.
David Desser’s article on Maboroshi no Hikari is up!
http://eigageijutsu.blogspot.com/2009/06/maboroshi-no-hikari-1995-by-david.html
Be sure to check it!
dammit! I completely missed this blogathon! How in the world was that possible? Did I really work that much during the past weeks??
Is it still possible to participate? I was planning to write about Sion Sono’s “Love Exposure” this weekend…
http://cinematografodeitrash.blogspot.com/2009/06/return-of-street-fighter1974.html
Review for Return of the Street Fighter
Probably my last post for the blogathon, but that’s okay. I’ve had fun:
A review of Kurosawa’s The Quiet Duel
http://krelllabs.blogspot.com/2009/06/kurosawas-quiet-duel.html
Procrastination is a terrible thing. Finally got my review up.
review (laudatory of course) of Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro at
http://commentarytrack.com/2009/06/20/review-my-neighbor-totoro-1988/
@Eat Much, Learn Slow
i don’t see any digit entry near the comments section .. i guess i will speak with you through the adress in your profil section
@Martin,
Sounds strange…ok, please drop me an email.
Late, but not too late: My review of “Love Exposure”:
http://www.japankino.de/2009/love-exposure/
I wrote it in German, but trust me, it’s great
Just finished my last article for the blogathon. Whew. Now I need a vacation.
I have really enjoyed participating in the Blogathon. It’s been fun to read such a diverse range of opinions on Japanese cinema. Here’s my last contribution http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-women-behind-scenes.html Let’s do this again sometime!
A review of Woman in the Dunes by one of my co-writers:
http://commentarytrack.com/2009/06/21/review-woman-in-the-dunes-1964/
And a review of Sonatine by another of my co-writers to finish the week:
http://commentarytrack.com/2009/06/21/review-sonatine-1993/
My ‘dvd of the week’ recommendation on Tuesday was the “Travels With Hiroshi Shimizu” box set:
http://commentarytrack.com/2009/06/16/dvd-of-the-week-travels-with-hiroshi-shimizu-box-set/
A Japanese drama shot in Thailand.
http://thaifilmjournal.blogspot.com/2009/06/japanese-cinema-blogathonnyaff-09.html
Congratulations to WildGrounds for organising the JCB!
Found a load of new blogs to follow, and been sent some great ideas for films I should see.
Same time next year?
Mark H
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