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Roslindale Monogatari: 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Sunday, July 29, 2007. Watched July 16 - 22, 2007: - Kinugasa, Imai, Ozu, To and Kabuki. Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1928). According to JMDB, this was the fifty-fifth film Kinugasa directed (a number he would more than double by the time of his retirement in 1966). This is a somewhat less avant-garde silent film than Kinugasa's. Dokkoi ikiteru / And Yet We Live. Tadashi Imai, 1951). And ignore Japan's own pre-war realist tradition (Shimizu, Uchida, Ozu, ...

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Roslindale Monogatari: 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Friday, June 29, 2007. Watched (and visited) June 18 - 24, 2007: Perrault and To, Olmsted and Hopper. Michel Brault, Bernard Gosselin and Pierre Perrault, 1968). A little appendix to Perrault's Ile a Coudres trilogy. While the three principal films (. Ite du monde, Le Règne du jour and Les Voitures d'eau. Http:/ i9.photobucket.com/albums/a59/mkerpan/june 07/plaisir01.png. Ba xing bao xi / The Eighth Happiness. Johnnie To, 1988). A bit of enjoyable...

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Roslindale Monogatari: Bushido Sixteen (Tomoyuki Furumaya, 2010)

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Friday, November 26, 2010. Bushido Sixteen (Tomoyuki Furumaya, 2010). Furumay's last film, The Homeless Student. Had a generally fine cast but didn't quite work - mostly because the actor playing the central character was way too old for the part and wasn't a strong enough performer to overcome this handicap. The twin heroines here, played by Riko Narumi ( How To Become Myself. And Kii Kitano ( BandAge. Good to see you writing again, Michael!

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Roslindale Monogatari: 04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Monday, April 30, 2007. Watched April 23-29, 2007. Tomu Uchida, 1939). Famed "realist" film about country life, made by Uchida without studio approval or cash. Shot with donated reel ends (and a bit of funds) on weekends and vacation days. A widower with two children lives with his his father-in-law. The family grows rice on rented land, and it is hard to make ends meet, especially when weather is uncooperative. Http:/ i9.photobucket.com/a...Http:...

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Roslindale Monogatari: 11/01/2007 - 12/01/2007

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Friday, November 23, 2007. Watched October 29 - November 4, 2007: Korea in 1990 - and now. Keduldo urichurum / The Black Republic. PARK Kwang-su, 1990). Park was one of the founding fathers of Korea's "New Cinema" of the 1990s. While his first film,. Touched on political matters,. The story here centers on a political activist (played by. He has managed to not get arrested on long-pending charges of revolutionary activity. At the start of the ...

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Roslindale Monogatari: 10/01/2007 - 11/01/2007

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Monday, October 29, 2007. Watched September 24 - 30, 2007: Ratanaruang, Seong, Zhang and Yau. Ruang rak noi nid mahasan / Last Life in the Universe. Pen-Ek RATANARUANG, 2003). This is only the second film from Thailand I've seen - and, it just so happens, the second film I've seen that was made by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. Unlike. Which seemed to be aimed mostly at a domestic Thai audience,. Http:/ i9.photobucket.com/albums/a59/mkerpan/thai/last...Http:...

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Roslindale Monogatari: 05/01/2008 - 06/01/2008

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Saturday, May 10, 2008. For whatever reason, I have found writing up comments on films an almost impossible burden for the past few months. My backlog of undiscussed films simply grows and grows. So - for what its worth - I am going to simply list everything I've seen (or, at least, that I still remember seeing). Perhaps this will motivate me to get to work writing (and screen capturing) - but probably not. Without further ado . Where Are You Then?

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Roslindale Monogatari: 11/01/2010 - 12/01/2010

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Friday, November 26, 2010. Bushido Sixteen (Tomoyuki Furumaya, 2010). Furumay's last film, The Homeless Student. Had a generally fine cast but didn't quite work - mostly because the actor playing the central character was way too old for the part and wasn't a strong enough performer to overcome this handicap. The twin heroines here, played by Riko Narumi ( How To Become Myself. And Kii Kitano ( BandAge. Friday, November 19, 2010. A picture-perfect...

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Roslindale Monogatari: 09/01/2007 - 10/01/2007

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Rambling observations of a Roslindale fan of Asian films. Sunday, September 30, 2007. Watched September 10 - 16, 2007: Nomura, Feng and Gu. Suna no utsuwa / Inspector Imanishi Investigates. Seicho Matsumoto, 1961). Suna no utsuwa / The Castle of Sand. Yoshitaro Nomura, 1974). Is available in English. This is the fifth Nomura film I've seen and, despite its reputation, the least satisfactory. While. Had some significant stylistic problems, it also had a number of strengths (especially on the narrative lev...