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Awai Books

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We're delighted to see others getting as much out of “Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw” as we have.

Thanks to everyone who's picked up a copy of William Andrews's biography of Japanese filmmaker Adachi Masao🎬📚

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#JapaneseCinema
#booksky

November 4, 2026 at 8:15 AM

Dakota Noot

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A cage. A mannequin. A professor who is also a "Madame." Reality is blurred as a college student descends into a beautiful nightmare from Kuninori Yamazaki (山崎邦紀).

Letterboxd review: boxd.it/h9Uye1
巨乳飼育術・監禁 (1995)

#pinkfilm #nightmare #japanesecinema

November 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM

ScreenRant

@screenrant.bsky.social

#ShinGodzilla Remains #Toho's Most Terrifying Cinematic Creation 🔥

#Kaiju #Godzilla #JapaneseCinema

October 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM

Zeke Fowler aka Cosmic_Rejects

@zekecosmicrejects.bsky.social

🛸Empathy is a powerful tool. So is proper pacing.🛸

🛸CHECK OUT, ZEKE_RAMBLES: ULTRAMAN TEO!🛸

WATCH HERE: youtu.be/zzrj7_Hwh0s?...

#ultramanteo #zekerambles #tokusatsu #practicaleffects #superhero #kaiju #college #japanesecinema #foreignmedia #cultclassic #tokusatsureview #tvreview #review

November 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM

Zeke Fowler aka Cosmic_Rejects

@zekecosmicrejects.bsky.social

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🛸Watch Teo grow, here👇.🛸

#ultramanteo #ultraman #tokusatsu #kaiju #college #60thanniversary #practicaleffects #suitmation #japanesecinema #foreignmedia #tvreview #tokureview #tokusatsureview #review #zekerambles

Ultraman Teo | Zeke Rambles (Review) - YouTube

Teo goes from coward to courageous!

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November 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM

Still Rolling

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‘Between Us’ Director Matsumura Shingo on Finding Connection After Disaster and Making Films on Japanese Budgets #MoviesAndTV #AnimationandAnime #matsumurashing #tokyofilmfest #betweenusfilm #nipponcinemanow #japanesecinema

‘Between Us’ Director Matsumura Shingo on Finding Connection After Disaster and Making Films on Japanese Budgets

Unspoken emotional wounds linger throughout “Between Us,” Japanese director Matsumura Shingo’s new film playing in the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Nippon Cinema Now section, its strand for...

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November 2, 2026 at 12:05 AM

ZEN

@zennudz.bsky.social

EXIT 8 (2025) — trapped in a subway corridor that loops forever. The horror is in the grade: sterile fluorescent whites, cold grays, near-black shadows — zero warmth except his skin. Sameness is the monster. Palette from this frame 🎨 #Exit8 #JapaneseCinema

October 30, 2026 at 12:36 PM

Tiziana

@linguistic.bsky.social

Versione restaurata, nei migliori cinema 😍
(A Cagliari all'Alkestis).
#Japanesecinema
#cinema

'L'impero dei sensi', in versione restaurata, da novembre di nuovo al cinema.

October 25, 2026 at 9:22 AM

G M Thomas FRSA FRAS

@japanauthor.bsky.social

🎬🎥🍿
Yō Yoshida (吉田羊) has most recently appeared in The Moon is Watching (Tsuki ga Miteiru) directed by Naoko Watanabe, and adapted from Junichi Watanabe's novel Chateau Rouge. It is scheduled for release in Japan on November 20th.
#Letterboxd #JapaneseCinema #FilmSky

October 27, 2026 at 6:14 AM

keithlovesmovies.com

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Arrested Memory is a hilarious, highly inventive genre mashup that balances absurd slapstick with genuine heart.

Read more in our review by @JacobBirney.

#absurdistcomedy #ActionComedy #arrestedmemory #darkcomedy #EastAsiancinema #EthanJuan #genremashup #JapaneseCinema #martialarts #moviereview #n

Arrested Memory Review: SABU’s Absurdist Comedy | TIFF 2026

This will be one of many reviews during this year's Toronto International Film Festival, to keep up with our latest coverage, click here. On the surface, it would be easy to mistake Arrested Memory for a Korean martial arts crime thriller, but filmmaker SABU merely adopts the structure of one before

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October 30, 2026 at 5:12 PM

The Movie Buff

@themoviebuff.bsky.social

Two Months of Horror: The 1968 Japanese film "Yokai Monster: 100 Monsters" is a good vintage horror film where the humans have it coming.

#monsterfilm #japanesecinema #jhorror #filmreview #worldcinema #horrorfilms

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Review: 'Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters' is a Vintage Japanese Horror Where Humans Have It Coming

Looking for a review of Kimiyoshi Yasuda's film 'Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters'? The Movie Buff is your source for reviews, news, content, and more!

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October 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM

keithlovesmovies.com

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Takashi Miike returns with Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, trading procedural detective work for a neon-soaked descent into chaos.

Read more in our review by @_bradsimon.

#actionthriller #badlieutenant #badlieutenanttokyo #crimethriller #ElevationPictures #GionnaDaddio #JapaneseCinema #lilyjames #livmorgan

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo Review – Takashi Miike’s Messy, Entertaining Sequel | TIFF 2026

This will be one of many reviews during this year's Toronto International Film Festival, to keep up with our latest coverage, click here. Renowned Japanese auteur Takashi Miike returns to TIFF with an unexpected Japanese-American collaboration: a new entry in the Bad Lieutenant franchise. Unrelated

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October 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM

retrofuturista.bsky.social

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Shinya Tsukamoto tells us why his new war film puts the perpetrator at its center, and why a child’s question drives it. Full interview on the site. #Cinema #JapaneseCinema #VeniceFilmFestival #WarFilm

Shinya Tsukamoto Talks Allen Nelson, PTSD and the Cost of Killing

Shinya Tsukamoto: “I Don’t Want Young People to Go to the Battlefield” Transmission 435: Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist whose fiercely independent work has pushed the boundaries of underground and experimental cinema for more than four decades. He received his first 8mm camera at the age of 14, marking the beginning of a lifelong passion for filmmaking. Emerging from Japan’s independent film scene in the 1980s, he quickly developed a distinctive visual language characterized by frantic editing, handheld camerawork, industrial landscapes, visceral sound design, and an intense fascination with the human body.

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October 22, 2026 at 12:24 PM

Zeke Fowler aka Cosmic_Rejects

@zekecosmicrejects.bsky.social

🛸They wrote themselves out of that corner.🛸

🛸CHECK OUT, ZEKE_RAMBLES: ULTRAMAN TEO!🛸

WATCH HERE: youtu.be/PWwC2ZjVG7w?...

#ultramanteo #zekerambles #tokusatsu #practicaleffects #superhero #kaiju #college #japanesecinema #foreignmedia #cultclassic #tokusatsureview #tvreview #review

October 21, 2026 at 9:22 PM

Rock! Shock! Pop!

@rockshockpop.bsky.social

The Third Window Films UHD release of Survive Style 5+ reviewed! @thirdwindowfilms.com ow #UHDreviews #4kreviews #japanesecinema #cultfilms
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October 19, 2026 at 8:31 PM

Zeke Fowler aka Cosmic_Rejects

@zekecosmicrejects.bsky.social

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🛸Watch Teo grow, here👇.🛸

#ultramanteo #ultraman #tokusatsu #kaiju #college #60thanniversary #practicaleffects #suitmation #japanesecinema #foreignmedia #tvreview #tokureview #tokusatsureview #review #zekerambles

Ultraman Teo | Zeke Rambles (Review) - YouTube

Teo goes from coward to courageous!

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October 21, 2026 at 9:23 PM

Martin Cid Magazine

@martincid.com

Petal Dance director Hiroshi Ishikawa returns after 13 years with Drive My Car’s label Bitters End #JapaneseCinema #TheBlueWeTouch #HiroshiIshikawa

Petal Dance director Hiroshi Ishikawa returns after 13 years with Drive My Car’s label Bitters End

Nao and Erika Karata lead The Blue We Touch, an ensemble drama in post-production at the company that produced Drive My Car

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October 22, 2026 at 9:15 AM

Still Rolling

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Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Shimizu Takashi Among Directors of Disney+, Hulu Japanese Horror Series ‘Night Tales Club’ #MoviesAndTV #AnimationandAnime #kurosawakiyoshi #shimizutakashi #nighttalesclub #japanesecinema #disneyplus

Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Shimizu Takashi Among Directors of Disney+, Hulu Japanese Horror Series ‘Night Tales Club’

Kurosawa Kiyoshi and “Ju-on” director Shimizu Takashi are among the seven filmmakers behind “Night Tales Club,” a six-part Japanese supernatural anthology series set to premiere on Disney+ and Hulu...

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October 21, 2026 at 12:46 AM

Neckties of Noir

@neckties-of-noir.bsky.social

#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #NoirNeckties #JapaneseCinema

Happy International Necktie Day
HIGH AND LOW (1963)
Akira Kurosawa

Japanese film noir: High and Low (1963)
This movie still is of a group of Japanese professionals, gathered around one person who is reading a folder. Most of the men are wearing suits, jackets and neckties. One has a white shirt and necktie without a jacket.
Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Kazuo Kitamura, Kōji Mitsui, Tatsuya Nakadai, and Takashi Shimura
High and Low (1963)

October 18, 2026 at 11:16 AM

reeltimecapsule.bsky.social

@reeltimecapsule.bsky.social

On this day in 2020, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train was released in theaters. Myth: just a series extension. Reality: a milestone that raised the theatrical ceiling for anime worldwide. #DemonSlayerMugenTrain #FilmHistory #AnimeInTheaters #ReleaseDayHistory #JapaneseCinema #A…

October 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM

𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝

@framerated.co.uk

How far would you go for the perfect family? 😈 VISITOR Q is one of the most disturbing, provocative films ever made.

Read @remydean.bsky.social’s review of Radiance’s Blu-ray release! #JapaneseCinema www.framerated.co.uk/visitor-q-20...