Cinema of Japan

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Welcome to Cinema of Japan! A club for the appreciation of Japanese cinema; a place to discuss films, directors, actors, actresses, composers and anything else that catches your fancy in the film world of the Land of the Rising Sun. Here you'll find a friendly atmosphere and many like-minded members, along with a vast array of film discussion and recommendations in our forums, plus featured film discussions chosen from suggestions by you! Please join in, take part and have fun discussing one of Japan's many treasures. Again, welcome to the club! If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to leave a comment or contact one of our admins.

Club Related Links
Club improvement ideas • Recommended films
The last film you watched? • Your favourite Japanese films?
The current featured film • Movie of the fortnight suggestions • Finding a movie

Useful Websites
Wildgrounds • Midnight Eye • Avistaz • Nippon Cinema • Asian DVD Club • Kung Fu Cinema • Kinema Junpo
Top Rated Japanese Films on IMDb • History of Japanese Cinema on Wikipedia • Asia Society • Japan Cinema

Movie of the Fortnight & Director of the Month
Swallowtail Butterfly & Nagisa Oshima
Randomly chosen from our list!

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Club Discussion

Favorite Japanese film? Sukamii - Jan 28, 2022	0 replies	by Sukamii »» Jan 28, 2022 9:52 PM
Sticky: What was the last film you watched? ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page ) Touka - Mar 12, 2010	735 replies	by Culex »» Sep 29, 2018 9:53 PM
Sticky: Movie, Director and Actor/Actress/Talent Spotlights [List + Suggestions] 13579wp - Aug 6, 2014	5 replies	by JapaneseDaddy »» Aug 25, 2018 10:45 PM
Cinema of China/Korea. TakeshiKitano - Aug 19, 2011	48 replies	by PandaMaster99 »» Aug 30, 2015 1:02 AM
Director Spotlight #5: Sion Sono Orion1 - Nov 1, 2012	3 replies	by removed-user »» May 27, 2015 3:59 PM

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Club Comments

Touka | Sep 5, 2021 3:57 PM

Nice to meet you!

belpprsndbeef | Aug 26, 2021 2:59 PM

just joined, love seeing eureka and lily chou chou featured here, two of the best films ever for sure. if anyone wants to chat cinema feel free to hit me up or add me!

JiikuakaASW | Feb 15, 2020 4:13 PM

https://www.honeyfeed.fm/chapters/5910
ı really love thıs thing you should read thıs ı recommend it

karambia | Feb 15, 2020 11:15 AM

yeah, thing still very scarce and it kind obvious the most of them not gonna get sub somewhere even until next year.
i quiet like destruction babies(i believe i had talked much about this before) - and i feel miss to see sosuke ikematsu.

i also notice the main guy from that movie, ryo narita also seems everywhere last year. http://asianwiki.com/Ryo_Narita

Touka | Feb 12, 2020 5:23 AM

To the Ends of the Earth has been on my watchlist for a while. Hopefully it's a return to form for Kurosawa. Can't see it available anywhere yet though. I wasn't much a fan of Destruction Babies, but I will watch anything with Yu Aoi. Farewell Song is another I have heard a bit about. Seems like Nana Komatsu is in a lot of movies these days.

karambia | Feb 12, 2020 5:09 AM

here they are, the 10 best picked by kinejun
1. It Feels so Good (火口のふたり)
2. Another World (半世界)
3. From Miyamoto to You (宮本から君へ)
4. A Girl Missing (よこがお)
5. Listen to the Universe (蜜蜂と遠雷)
6. Farewell Song (さよならくちびる)
7. One Night (ひとよ)
8. Just Only Love (愛がなんだ)
9. RANDEN: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram (嵐電)
10. To the Ends of the Earth (旅のおわり世界のはじまり)

https://windowsonworlds.com/2020/02/11/kinema-junpo-announces-93rd-best-10-for-2019/

a feast for lowkey drama I guess.
there two that catch my attention the most for now: Tetsuya Mariko(destruction babies) back with From Miyamoto to You, that also brought from tv dorama the same year,and starred Sosuke ikematsu+yu aoi; and just like me, kinejun clearly has bias with kiyoshi kurosawa with To the Ends of the Earth .

karambia | Feb 3, 2020 7:23 AM

i believe the kinjeun list will out around this feb.
i want to catch some of last year if not for lack of sub--hvent check some of it back. I already check every day a good day back then but just let it slip away :') . there also The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine available in mubi but idk hw my phone kinda messed up with the app so i just left it pass.
im almost forget sosuke ikematsu was on killing. im probably will look on tht sometime

so far I believe nana and go were good to decent, but usually has a likeable presence.

I think garden of words change my perspective for Shinkai , but it's not like it was great, just kind of fine. I'm usually not fond for romance and his story in general just turn kind of flat for my consideration.

Touka | Jan 30, 2020 7:51 AM

I didn't really like Shinkai's early work until 5 Centimeters per Second, but since then I think he's had an interesting output, though I haven't seen Weathering with You either.

Family of Strangers sounds interesting, I like Nana Komatsu and Go Ayano, though they don't really have any outstanding performances.

When does the Kinejun list get posted? There's still some I want to see from last years (Killing, Every Day a Good Day)!

Club Stats

Members: 675

Pictures: 19

Category: Japan

Created: Feb 13, 2010

Club Staff

Touka (President)

BluntZ (Secretary)

TakeshiKitano (Secretary)

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Anime Relations

Akira

Death Note

Evangelion Movie 1: Jo

Evangelion Movie 2: Ha

Evangelion Movie 3: Q

Gake no Ue no Ponyo

Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen

Hachimitsu to Clover

Hachimitsu to Clover II

Hachimitsu to Clover Specials

Hadashi no Gen