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Japanese Film Festival '09 Part II: ?????/Departures

おくりびと / Departures

Before I begin with the review, a little rant. I’ve just signed up for a free site on this place called ‘freei.me’, and tried to install WordPress on it- well, if ‘tried’ covers clicking all here and there whilst reading reams of incomprehensible technobabble and eventually leaving the account to [...]

Japanese Film Festival 2009

The Japanese Film Festival 2009  just ended today. This time it focused on dramas, and even had a big name in Departures (おくりびと), the winner of the Best Foreign Film prize in the 81st Academy Awards. I’ve attended the festival since it’s inception back in 2004. In that year, I think I watched just [...]

Japanese Film Festival 2008

Once again, the Japanese Film Festival. This year’s is the fifth time it’s been held, as well as the fifth time I’ve attended. My sister really scared me when she said that the festival was going on/over/insert some chronological term when I got back from Italy. Damn. Four years straight and I have to [...]