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Sons of the War

In 2015, some notes and other research materials from Kyoto Imperial University from the 1940s were unearthed. They revealed that Japan...

Group Exhibition: 郊游／野遊び／An Outing

10月21日(木)10am-6pm BUSINESS ONLY 10月22日(金) 10am-5pm BUSINESS ONLY **NIGHT MARKET 10月22日(金) 5pm-8pm FOR EVERYBODY 10月23日(土) 10am-5pm FOR...

In search of light

Nippon Connection Shiver (2021, Toshiaki Toyoda) On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019, Kenji Iwaisawa) While many of the feature films display a dark...

ART as in Aesthetically Rendered Technology©?

The R&D company Rhizomatiks is currently having its first solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, a public art institution....

Dare you to call it feminism

Dare you to call it feminism On the wall by the entrance to Mori Art Museum’s new exhibition, the title Another Energy: Power to Continue...

It’s about time…

“Time Flows: Reflections by 5 Artists” @Hara Museum | September 19, 2020 – January 11, 2021 Group exhibition with works by Tomoki Imai,...

The Image It Bears

Ainu Mosir Japan/USA/China, 2020, 84 minutes. Directed and written by Takeshi Fukunaga. The last few years have witnessed the springing...

Her Indeterministic Cosmos

Tomoko Konoike: Flip @ Artizon Museum, Tokyo Original dates: April 18-June 21 2020 New dates: June 23-October 25 Konoike is an artist of...

Why is not the right question

In this compact study, author Andrew Osmond conducts a detailed textual analysis of one of Miyazaki’s most remarkable animation works,...

The Japan Cinema ANT

Part 1 of the Japanese Cinema Book focuses on the theories and approaches of Japanese film studies in both Japan and Anglo-Saxon...

Far away, too close: Nippon Connection 2020

Naomi Mizoguchi focused her camera on another voice that has been neglected and silenced for hundreds of years, which is the voice of...

Complicity

While China has become the world’s second largest economy and the No. 1 source of overseas visitors for Japan, the film Complicity runs...