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Time goes by...in Kyoto

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 9M ago

浮気と嫉妬の修羅場 “Shuraba”, Pandemonium of jealousy and betrayal

I understand that many times a title must be translated with some freedom to get a proper appreciation of a meaning when it refers to a distant culture. But sometimes they take their liberties to an extreme, as in this case: ふゆの獣 (Winter beasts), when translated into English, surprisingly becomes Lo

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 10M ago

One million yen girl, forever young and Freddy Mercury

Roughly, there are two types of people in the world, the ones who seek stability and the ones who run away from her. Usually technological progress and civilization go along with the former attachment to the land, but when it comes to a romantic idea of life, both change and adventure don’t have any

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 10M ago

Miracle in Kyushu, family disintegration

「家族より音楽と世界を選んだ」“Before family I chose music and life”, a young divorced Japanese father tells his eldest son Koichi on the phone when the latter begs him to come back home. Each brother –they are also related in real life, Koki and Oshiro Maeda- lives with a different parent hundreds of miles away f

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 10M ago

Andarushia, James Bond and The Vascongadas

Japan has been successful imitating and even improving West technology, architecture, fashion, etc., but when it comes to commercial cinema, she needs to reconsider and start from the beginning again. In アンダルシア、女神の報復 Andalucia, the Goddess’ Revenge, the last blockbuster for the national market, we h

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 10M ago

OKINAWA’S UTOPIA

Okinawa is part of Japan without being really “Japanese”: six months of humid summer, an inscrutable dialect and a much more relaxed life-style, only shaken by political disturbances due to the American bases. スリーポイント Three points shows some of these issues with its Okinawan subtitled stories of a

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 11M ago

Tokyo, idols and salary men

The post- Meiji Restoration author Nagai Kafu (1879-1959) used to say that the women in the lower classes –sometimes even “indecent woman” like geishas, bar waitresses and prostitutes- had a better heart than those of the middle class. Well, the main female character at Lost Paradise in Tokyo seems

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 11M ago

Local nationalism and nonsense in Osaka with Princess Toyotomi

No doubt historical science fiction is now popular in Japan. Last year, Ohaku depicted a woman-controlled Edo Japan due to an epidemic that decimates the male population. Men had become just as valuable as a male bee in a beehive. In the case of Princess Toyotomi, a time-bridge is open between the 1

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 1Y ago

Hankyu Densha: an universe of struggling women on a Kansai railway

Hankyu Densha, based on the homonymous novel by Hiro Arikawa, is a story about solitude, about deceived characters themselves who can’t find a way out of their problems but struggle to get rid of them. Paradoxically, an old and crowded Japanese train marching from Takarazuka to Nishinomiya Kitaguchi

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 1Y ago

婚前特急、Konzen Tokyu, merits, demerits and broken condoms.

When I was in my late teens my recently deceased grandmother used to advise against women in search of a young, handsome and professionally promising husband through disloyal means. Be extremely careful –she would tell me in the terrace of my parents apartment in Madrid and far from my mother’s ears

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Time goes by...in Kyoto · 1Y ago

Till death do us part

A serious man, from the Coen Brothers, finally made it to Japan, 京都シネマのおかげで, thanks to Kyoto Cinema, one of Kansai’s independent cinema circuit’s movie theatre. While seeing the movie I wondered what kind of reception would be having in this country. The film shows life in a small Jewish community i

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