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#Japanuary2026 Film Nr. 13

Black Test Car 黒の試走車 (1962), dir. Yasuzō Masumura

#Filmsky #movieky #japanuary #letterboxd #arrowvideo
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A review of Black Test Car (1962)
Japanuary '26 - #13 This part of Yasuzō Masumura's works and career deserves more to be studied and analyzed. This twisted corporate world he creates is truly a battlefield in the hellscape of capital...
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January 25, 2026 at 3:35 AM
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#Japanuary2026 Film Nr. 12

#HandballStrive (#ハンド全力) 2020, dir. Daigo Matsui

#FilmSky #MovieSky #japanuary
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A ★½ review of #HandballStrive (2020)
Japanuary '26 - #12 Bad film. As one can expext from a film where the title starts with a hashtag. It has all the ingredients to be an uplifting sport film I was honestly in the mood for, but I cannot...
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January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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#Japanuary2026 - Film Nr. 11

Hazardous Graduation 女子学園　ヤバイ卒業 (1970), dir. Yukihiro Sawada

#japanuary #japan #filmsky #moviesky
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A review of Hazardous Graduation (1970)
Japanuary '26 - #11 When Japan was wild and didn't get a bleeding nose from handholding. Still, not a pinku film though. A group of high school girls starts exploring their sexuality aka finding out h...
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January 20, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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#Japanuary2026 Nr. 10 (Miniserie)

Miss King ミス・キング (2025), with NON

#japanuary #filmsky #moviesky #netflix #non #ミス・キング
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A review of Miss King (2025)
Japanuary '26 - #10 Kind of hoped it would be a Japanese version of Queen's Gambit with Shogi, but for the most part it turned out to be a dragging soap opera with an odd focus, that could have been a...
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January 17, 2026 at 6:19 AM
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#Japanuary2026 Film Nr. 9

Exit 8 "８番出口" (2025), dir. Genki Kawamura

#japanuary #filmsky #moviesky #exit8
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Exit 8 (2025)
A man gets lost in an underground passage. He follows the "guide" through the passage, but one after another, strange things happen to him. Is this space real? Or an illusion? Will the man be able to escape the passage?
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January 16, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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#Japanuary2026 Film Nr.8

Rental Family レンタルファミリー (2025), dir. HIKARI

#japanuary #filmsky #moviesky #rentalfamily
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A ★★½ review of Rental Family (2025)
Such a ragbag of mediocrity. I really enjoyed HIKARIs 37 Seconds and with how much sympathy and dignity she treated the protagonist's issues within a society that is used to turn a blind eye on people...
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January 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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Zum #Japanuary2026 steuere ich auch ein Buch bei, dass mir sehr gefiel. Die surreal anmutende Allegorie auf die Arbeitswelt "The Factory" bzw. "Die Fabrik" von Hiroko Oyamada. Erscheint in zwei Wochen auch auf Deutsch.

#japanuary #booksky #goodreads
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Kaidan 怪談's review of The Factory
4/5: Die Fabrik, die titelgebend für Hiroko Oyamada's Erstlingswerk ist, stellt die Lebensgrundlage einer ganzen Stadt dar. Man kommt nicht an der Fabrik vorbei. Sie nimmt die meiste Fläche ein und is...
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January 14, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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#Japanuary2026 - Film Nr. 7

Bento Harassment 今日も嫌がらせ弁当 (2019), dir. Renpei Tsukamoto

#japanuary #filmsky #moviesky #japanesefilm
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A ★★★½ review of Bento Harassment (2019)
Japanuary '26 - #7 Meals that heal and connect. Didn't expect a quirky comedy about food to become a heart-wrenching tale about growing up, moving on and letting go. When a single mother is being igno...
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January 10, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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#Japanuary2026 Film Nr. 6

Night Train 夜汽車 (1987), dir. Kōsaku Yamashita

#japanuary #moviesky #filmsky #japanesefilm
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A review of Night Train (1987)
Japanuary '26 - #6 Very basic melodrama I cannot say much about since I realized I'm not the right audience. It's basically a great filmed soap-opera I had not the patience for. Nowadays this would be...
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January 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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#Japanuary2026 Film #5

And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool そうして私たちはプールに金魚を、(2017), dir. Makoto Nagahisa

#japanuary #filmsky #moviesky #japanesefilm
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And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool. (2017)
One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them there.
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January 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Bela Tarr verstarb heute und damit geht einer der legendärsten Filmemacher von uns.

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Meghalt Tarr Béla
70 éves korában elhunyt Tarr Béla, a kortárs magyar filmművészet meghatározó és egyik legnagyobb hatású alkotója, a Sátántangó, a Werckmeister harmóniák és A torinói ló Kossuth- és Balázs Béla-díjas r...
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January 6, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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#Japanuary2026 Eintrag Nr. 4

Sai 災 (2025), dir. Kentaro Hirase, Yutaro Seki

Schon jetzt einer der besten Titel des Jahres.

#japanuary #moviesky #filmsky #災 #horror
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A ★★★★½ review of Sai (2025)
Japanuary '26 Sai is truly a grim and bleak miniseries with a unique narrative structure that certainly will alienate a big part of its audience - and one of the best things I have watched in recent y...
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January 5, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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#Japanuary2026, Film Nr. 3

"Kinki" 近畿地方のある場所について (2025), dir. Koji Shiraishi

#japanuary #kinki #filmsky #moviesky #近畿
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A ★★★ review of KINKI (2025)
Japanuary '26 - #3 Glad to see that Koji Shiraishi made a decent film again after the lackluster and wacky House of Sayuri. Same as Sayuri, Kinki, named after the region in Japan, is another adaptatio...
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January 4, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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#Japanuary2026 Film Nr.2:

"The Catch" 魚影の群れ (1983), dir. Shinji Somai

#japanuary #moviesky #filmsky #letterboxd
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A review of The Catch (1983)
Japanuary '26 - #2 The Japansese Men and the Sea Biggest "selling point" here is Shinji Somai's outstanding cinematography. This film is probably one of the most beautiful portrayals of a Japanese coa...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Dann möge der #Japanuary2026 beginnen.

Film Nr.1: "100 Meters" ひゃくえむ (2025), dir. Kenji Iwaisawa

#Japanuary #filmsky #moviesky
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A ★★★½ review of 100 METERS (2025)
Japanuary #1 Kicking off Japanuary right from the starting line with the most recent film. Kenji Iwaisawa, who already garnered attention and reputation with his little music-focused flick On-Gaku, co...
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January 1, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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"Dracula: A Love Tale" by Luc Besson.
Okayish, but overall redundant. The fact embargoes are handed until release day says everything.
#FilmSky #letterboxd #dracula

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A ★★½ review of Dracula: A Love Tale (2025)
↓ English below ↓ Wenn Jounalisten mit Embargoes bis zum Erscheinungstag beglückt werden, weiß man was Sache ist. Trotz gewisser Qualitäten, ist der Film letztlich ziemlich redundant und verdankt sein...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Interview with Nobuhiro Yamashita on "Linda Linda Linda" for its 20th anniversary

#リンダリンダリンダ #FilmSky #MovieSky

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Interview: Nobuhiro Yamashita reflects on 'Linda Linda Linda' 20 years later | Asian Film Archive
Following sold out sessions at the Asian Film Archive, AFA’s Natalie Ng got to chat with director Nobuhiro Yamashita to reflect on Linda Linda Linda’s enduring popularity twenty years on.
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September 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Highest 2 Lowest is a disastrous piece of garbage

#FilmSky #SpikeLee
September 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Watched Toei's first English-language live-action "Dear Stranger" with Hidetoshi Nishijima that will hit theaters soon.

Bottom line is there wasn't really a need to let it take place in New York. But what else do you choose to depict a crime-rotten place?
#FilmSky #letterboxd #review
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A ★★★ review of Dear Stranger (2025)
Was very intrigued at first when I saw the cast consists of Hidetoshi Nishijima (Drive My Car) and Gwen Lu-Mei (Black Coal, Thin Ice; Wild Goose Lake) living together as a married couple in New York. ...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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just wanted to share this quality piece..
#BookSky #books #reading #goodreads
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The Absolute Degeneracy of Modern Writing
YouTube video by The Second Story
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August 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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8. exclusively reading non fiction should be one of the indicators of an antisocial personality disorder
July 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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July reading month.
#BookSky #books #fable
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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it's actually so cool that the entire global creative ecosystem is basically held hostage by freak reactionary american companies.
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Liked "Ghost Killer" ゴーストキラー by the team behind Baby Assassins a lot. Yugo Sakamoto and Kensuke Sonomura are some of the most interesting personalities in the action genre right now.

And although Akari Takaishi just plays Chisato once again, she rules.

#FilmSky #MovieSky #ゴーストキラー

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A ★★★½ review of Ghost Killer (2024)
This is my Ballerina. Not sure if they do themselves much of a favor with a trash title like this, but I would have not expected from a movie called "Ghost Killer" to see some of the best fighting sce...
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July 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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In September I began with "The Wars of Light and Shadow" by @jannywurts.bsky.social not knowing what to expect. Today, I'm utterly fascinated by the world and its rich history. And Janny became one of my favorite authors of all time now. #booksky #fantasy #books

How it started vs. How it's going
February 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM