Japanese Film Blogathon 2010

Yes! This will be great! I’d love to get back to a couple of my favorites, and watch them with a more critical eye!

Day 1! Why I Love and Hate Shunji Iwai
http://personal.amy-wong.com/2010/11/03/japanese-cinema-blogathon-2010-day1/

Day One: Legend of Bailiff Sansho Review (German)

http://evergreen-oldboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/blogathon-2010-legend-of-bailiff-sansho.html

Short review of Permanent Nobara:
http://franksjfilmwritings.blogspot.com/2010/11/permanent-nobara-review.html

Second post to close off the day for me .

In depth Review of Imamuras “Vengence is Mine” (German)
http://evergreen-oldboys.blogspot.com/2010/11/blogathon-2010-vengeance-is-mine.html

One more and probably last for today.

Hausu review: http://www.variedcelluloid.net/vcinema/?p=963

Here’s the first Varied Celluloid review for the festivities! Yasuharu Hasebe’s Black Tight Killers! http://www.variedcelluloid.net/?page_id=5849 I also mentioned the Blogathon on the front page as well as the review announcement.

Laputa’s 100 Best Animators
http://nishikataeiga.blogspot.com/2010/11/laputas-100-best-world-and-japanese.html

Review of Takashi Miike’s BIG BANG LOVE, JUVENILE A (2005): http://schneeland-mono.blogspot.com/2010/11/big-bang-love-juvenile-46-okunen-no-koi.html

And because cinema is not only about image, here’s a jazzy OST of a classic Kitano movie:

http://eigageijutsu.blogspot.com/2010/11/ost-daisaku-kume.html

Hope you all like. Blogathon’s music file

Ohh feature us!

I Saw the Devil review – http://japancinema.net/2010/11/03/i-saw-the-devil-review/

-JapanCinema.net

Not sure my feature will be ready in time .. anyway, just found a great “Japanese Film Noir” stills album
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=78836&id=94216902088

(seems Pat has forgotten, again, to name the event on his blog ..)

Apparently, the galleryt features films screened in San-Sebastian 2 years ago
http://www.enews.ma/japanese-film-noir_i87235_5.html
(not really a surprise ..only big foreign event could force Japanese major to share visuals buried in their archive!)

One Million Yen GIRL* review

Gonna leave the comment here, there’s an issue with the variedcelluloid.net website – it crashes my browser every time I let it load. I think it’s got to do with the Quicktime file loading.

Hey Amy,

Sorry you’re having problems. We don’t have anything that uses QT directly, but it might be the podcast player on the site that’s causing you problems. Unfortunately, we can’t really disable it since the podcast is our bread and butter, so to speak. Could you try entering the site from the URL http://vcinemashow.com/ and see if that works. Doubt that it will, but it’s worth a shot.

If that doesn’t work and you really want to check out the reviews, let me know and I’ll see if there’s anything that I can do on my side.

CJ

Vendetta of Samurai (1952) http://asiashock.blogspot.com/2010/11/vendetta-of-samurai.html

Six films about movement by Hiroyuki Tanaka a.k.a. Sabu (German)
http://www.samuraisundso.de/2010/11/05/sechs-filme-uber-bewegung-von-hiroyuki-tanaka-a-k-a-sabu/

Blackmail Is My Life review – http://www.variedcelluloid.net/vcinema/?p=1057

I revisit Kenji Misumi’s Destiny’s Son http://asiashock.blogspot.com/2010/11/destinys-son.html

Couple of more reviews at Movie Feast:
Fish Story (http://moviefeast.blogspot.com/2010/11/fish-story-2009.html)
Dororo (http://moviefeast.blogspot.com/2010/11/dororo-2007.html)

My review for Takashi Miike’s Deadly Outlaw Rekka:
http://cineawesome.com/film-2/film-reviews-2/deadly-outlaw-rekka-review/

Continuing my “Elwood’s A-Z of Asian Cinema” I have now reached the letter G which of course can only be for the most Iconic movie monster of them all “Godzilla”, who is also currently celebrating his 56th Birthday. To celebrate this fact I have taken another look at the original movie.

http://fromthedepthsofdvdhell.blogspot.com/2010/11/g-is-for-godzilla.html

Review of Maiko Haaaan !!! (in french) : http://gemini.neetwork.net/2010/11/06/maiko-haaaan/

GROßE ERWARTUNGEN – GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Meine Top 10 DVD-Enttäuschungen (German)

http://im-wald-des-tapio.blogspot.com/2010/11/groe-erwartungen-great-expectations.html

Here are three movie reviews for ya!

Rodan:

http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-rodan.html

The Invitation to Cinema Orion:

http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-invitation-to-cinema-orion.html

Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code of Honor:

http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2010/11/review-yakuza-justice-erotic-code-of.html

Review of Yoshida Kenji’s “Yuriko no aroma”‘ (in Italian): http://sonatine2010.blogspot.com/2010/09/yuriko-no-aroma.html

Second half of “The Fall and Rise of Seijun Suzuki”. (I’m tired!)

http://jfilmpowwow.blogspot.com/2010/11/japanese-film-blogathon-fall-and-rise_06.html

Review: Panic in High School (German)
http://www.samuraisundso.de/2010/11/07/blogathon-2010-panic-in-high-school-koko-dai-panikku/

A 1972 Interview with Kon Ichikawa. My post for day 6

http://eigageijutsu.blogspot.com/2010/11/interview-with-kon-ichikawa.html

I would like to participate in the blogathon as well! I will add more Japanese live-action material later, but I would like to start off by sharing a Japanese anime film review:

Video review of Evangelion 2.22: You Can [Not] Advance: http://www.isugoi.com/evangelion-2-22-you-can-not-advance-video-review/

Review of Taniguchi Masaaki’s Toki wo kakeru shoujo (Time Traveller – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) (in Italian):
http://sonatine2010.blogspot.com/2010/10/toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo.html

I explored Yoshihiro Nishimura’s oeuvre (pre-MUTANT GIRLS SQUAD & HELLDRIVER) here:
http://feeslist.blogspot.com/2010/05/dope-director-yoshihiro-nishimura-part.html
http://feeslist.blogspot.com/2010/05/dope-director-yoshihiro-nishimura-pt-2.html

Review / essay on Big Bang Love Juvenile A:

http://www.anotherqueerjubu.com/another_queer_jewish_budd/2010/07/homoerotic-ritual-as-an-essential-part-of-societal-and-spiritual-health.html

I just discovered what you have going on here! I wish I’d found it five days ago, as I’ve been doing “Nine Days of Ninja” on my review blogs, and several of my posts would have worked for your far-better effort.

I’m submitting my review from today, hoping it lives up to what others have done. And then I’ll be reading lots of posts.

http://moviesinbw.blogspot.com/2010/11/seventeen-ninja-film-as-secretive-as.html

One of my all time favorites Linda, Linda, Linda: http://cineawesome.com/film-2/film-reviews-2/linda-linda-linda-review/ hope people enjoy it!

Here’s another contribution to this great blogathon–well, three contributions in one, really: The Complete Street Fighter

http://stevemillerreviews.blogspot.com/2010/11/complete-street-fighter.html

(I’ve learned about a lot of great films by visiting the links.)

Revew: ALL to the sea (IN ITALIAN): http://sonatine2010.blogspot.com/2010/11/subete-wa-umi-ni-naru.html

I explored Sion Sono’s works, pre-COLD FISH:
http://feeslist.blogspot.com/2010/06/dope-director-sion-sono.html
http://feeslist.blogspot.com/2010/06/dope-director-sion-sono-part-two.html

Our last entry for today. If You Were Young: Rage review: http://www.variedcelluloid.net/vcinema/?p=1201

Review of Tomu Uchida’s SWORDS IN THE MOONLIGHT: http://schneeland-mono.blogspot.com/2010/11/souls-in-moonlight-aka-swords-in.html

Hideo Gosha’s The Secret of the Urn http://asiashock.blogspot.com/2010/11/secret-of-urn.html

Review: Toilet (IN ITALIAN): http://sonatine2010.blogspot.com/2010/10/toilet.html

Beat me to the punch in posting before I could yet again – Tekkonkinkreet review: http://www.variedcelluloid.net/vcinema/?p=1237

I outsourced it (didn’t write it)… but it’s a fresh Freudian take of ONIBABA by one of our P.R. team, which we’re screening this Friday at Japan Society
http://japansocietyny.blogspot.com/2010/11/limbus-limbo-how-low-can-you-go.html

The last review from Varied Celluloid! The classic Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion http://www.variedcelluloid.net/?page_id=5916