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Maboroshii Productions: November 2009
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Sunday, November 1, 2009. Bitchin' Wakamatsu Koji Series this Month! My programming for the Cinefamily. Aka The Silent Movie Theater) here in LA, continues with a pretty awesome seven-film Wakamatsu Koji series that kicks off this coming Wednesday with the masterful UNITED RED ARMY. Was a long sentence! The series will then go on to run for the first three FRIDAYS. The films, in order, are:. Divisive, exploitative, cruel, vengeful,...
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Maboroshii Productions: December 2008
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Tuesday, December 2, 2008. Oshii Mamoru Directs Stage Version of TetsuJin 28! If you're in Osaka in January and have about ¥10,000 to blow, then you should go and see Oshii Mamoru's. Directed stage adaptation of TETSUJIN 28. Aka 鉄人２８号). I'd be curious to check this out considering Mamoru is a recluse who prefers the company of drawings and basset hounds to people. (So what's he doing directing real live actors? Sun Plaza Nakano Kun.
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Maboroshii Productions: Sono's Love Exposure playing this Monday in LA!
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Sono's Love Exposure playing this Monday in LA! Just stumbled on the news that Sono Sion's 4 hour magnum opus AI NO MUKIDASHI (Love Exposure). Will be screening this coming Monday, May 4th, 2009. As part of the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival. I watched this back in March and have to say that without question it's the best film by Sono Sion that I've seen. Is it flawed? To the LA screening. Great post....
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Maboroshii Productions: Bitchin' Wakamatsu Koji Series this Month!
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Sunday, November 1, 2009. Bitchin' Wakamatsu Koji Series this Month! My programming for the Cinefamily. Aka The Silent Movie Theater) here in LA, continues with a pretty awesome seven-film Wakamatsu Koji series that kicks off this coming Wednesday with the masterful UNITED RED ARMY. Was a long sentence! The series will then go on to run for the first three FRIDAYS. The films, in order, are:. Divisive, exploitative, cruel, vengeful,...
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Reels N' Rockets: September 2008
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Movies, music and motorcycles.What else on Earth matters? Monday, September 22, 2008. Rock Band 2 observations. Big, huge, superepic props to Harmonix for curing my "Brick Wall Syndrome." (BWS). Lemme explain: Inevitably on one of these games I'll run into a song I simply have absolutely no hope whatsoever of playing. On GUITAR HERO 2, it was "Carry Me Home" by Living End. Harmonix came up with the genius solution of allowing you to choose the difficulty of. Everlong" by Foo Fighters. Alex Chilton" by Th...
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Maboroshii Productions: February 2009
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Saturday, February 21, 2009. That queasy feeling you have in your stomach? People collect bugs in Japan. This isn't the something just for kids- but in fact adults, with paychecks, buy them in stores or even on Yahoo! Look this one here -. Here's the auction page. If you want to buy it.). Anyhoo, it appears that sometimes folks also collect bugs to watch them fight. To be broken. ("Rule 3: No Outside Weapons."! Woah, so I'm like to...
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Maboroshii Productions: Shinya Tsukamoto Panel at the Tribeca Film Festival
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Shinya Tsukamoto Panel at the Tribeca Film Festival. Three random bits of trivia:. If it weren't for Tsukamoto, I wouldn't be as much of a Japanese film dork as I am. If it weren't for Tsukamoto, I likely wouldn't have pursued filmmaking. I'd probably be making a living recycling bottles and searching the beach for loose change with a metal detector. Or evidence of fate's hand? Sun, Apr 25, 9:00PM. So if yo...
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Maboroshii Productions: Angelinos! FUNKY FORREST Playing Friday June 5th at Midnight!
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Wednesday, June 3, 2009. FUNKY FORREST Playing Friday June 5th at Midnight! Katsuhito Ishii's gigantically weird film ナイスの森. Aka FUNKY FORREST) will be playing this Friday, June 5th, at midnight at the Silent Movie. What's to say about the film? Here's what the Subway Cinema. Folks wrote about the film when they screened it in NYC back in 2006:. I've written about Ishii. October 18, 2015 at 10:51 PM. View my complete profile. Samur...
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Maboroshii Productions: TOKYO GORE NIGHT! VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL (LA PREMIER) - 10/13/09
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Sunday, October 11, 2009. VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL (LA PREMIER) - 10/13/09. It's been a while, eh? I've been helping do some Asian Film programming over at the excellent Cinefamily. Theater here in LA and am happy to announce the LA Premier. Of Tomomatsu Naoyuki and Nishimura Yoshihiro's light-footed gorefest VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Tokyo Gore Night is like a GWAR concert - without the bl...
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Maboroshii Productions: January 2009
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A blog for Maboroshii Productions' films and Japanese movies and culture. Friday, January 23, 2009. ウララ ウララ ウラウララ〜♪ Time for a Yamamoto Linda Hip Thrust. Ooh la la indeed! Getting bogged down here in writing and desperately need a pick me up. Sure a shot of espresso or a some ice cubes down the pants could work, but it's not nearly as satisfying as watching the glorious sequined 1970s bombshell Yamamoto Linda. Belt out some tunes courtesy of the old YouTube time machine. Up first, 狙いうち ( Nerai-Uchi!
