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| | Learn more about Japan in the online encyclopedia. |
 | | Japan's highest mountain is the famous Mount Fuji at 3,776 m. | | | About 73% of the country is mountainous, with a chain running through each of the main islands. | | | Its varied geographical features divide Japan into six principal climatic zones. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/j/ja/japan_1.html
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| | American University Library - National Cinema, Japan |
| | As reported by an American TV newscaster, a Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur awakens from undersea hibernation off the coast of Japan during atomic bomb testing, and begins to destroy Tokyo. | | | After failing in the pursuit of pleasure, he finds self-fulfillment by ensuring that his former department builds a children's playground in the slums, and dies quietly. | | | When detective Murakami loses his revolver, he must descend into Tokyo's underworld and face the killer who has taken it. |
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http://www.library.american.edu/subject/media/japanese.html
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| | Japan |
| | Cinematography was introduced to Japan in 1896, but whether seen as mere entertainment or scientific machinery, it was a novelty to be exhibited. | | | In retrospect, the history of film criticism in Japan had, at first, been a long period of movie fans thrilled at the novelty of cinema. | | | Up to now these preferences have influenced the majority of average movie fans in Japan. |
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http://www.asianfilms.org/japan/iwamoto4.html
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| | Cinema of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The 1950s were the zenith of Japanese cinema, and three of its films (Rashōmon, The Seven Samurai, and Tokyo Story) made the Sight and Sound's 2002 Critics and Directors Poll for the best films of all time. | | | 24 Frames: The Cinema of Japan and Korea, Wallflower Press, London. | | | Unlike Hollywood, silent films were still being produced in Japan well into the 1930s. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Japan
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| | Japan |
| | The conditions of reception were not completely to blame for undermining spectators' processes of reason: in the Tokyo Asahi's vision, moving picture audiences were somehow different from the start. | | | The contemporary newspaper ads for the first Zigomar state that the film shown included "beginning, middle, end; 3 reels; 8,500 feet" (perhaps each part was three reels?): see the ad for the Kinryukan in the Miyako Shinbun, 11 November 1911: 6. | | | Bolstered by the success of Russo-Japanese War films, the number of permanent motion picture theaters increased and several companies were formed to regularize production within Japan. |
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http://www.asianfilms.org/japan/gerow7.html
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| | Who's Who of Victorian Cinema |
| | Expanding widely into film exhibition, by 1915 he was controlling 177 out of Japan's 339 cinemas. | | | Having gained business experience in the United States, where he had done everything from washing dishes to selling door-to-door, Yokota returned to Japan with an X-ray machine with which he toured, putting on shows in a hut he called 'The Hall of Mysteries'. | | | Unlike Arai, who saw film as an upper-class novelty, Yokota chose to take films to the people, touring provincial Japan with a large tent he called 'Cinematographe Hall'. |
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http://www.victorian-cinema.net/yokota.htm
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| | Cinema.3Yen.com - Cinema in Japan - Japanese Cinema |
| | There’s also an economic factor, Iwai’s movie were very popular in Japan at the time. | | | The movie, Bandage, is about the indie rock scene in Japan during the 90’s. | | | The fact is Iwai’s movies are not sophisticated enough for the art crowd and not entertaining enough for the movie geeks looking for thrills. |
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http://cinema.3yen.com
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| | Cinema Bridges Iran-Japan Cultural Gap |
| | Starring Iranian and Japanese actors, the movie is currently on the screen of Cine Switch Cinema in Ginza, Tokyo. | | | The movie simply asks the audiences to slow down and fill the gap in between, paying more attention to such relations. | | | Director of the film Kamal Tabrizi said that his goal was to create a film that makes both Japanese and Iranian audiences feel similarly. |
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http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=3388
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| | Books About Korean Cinema |
| | From inside cover: "Among the most popular cinemas in Asia and increasingly visible and influential in Europe and the US, recent films from South Korea did not arise out of nowhere. | | | "Kyung Hyun Kim's book is a roller coaster ride through modern South Korean masculinity in the cinema. | | | He considers the work of several Korean auteurs -- Park Kwang-su, Jang Sun-woo, and Hong Sang-su. |
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http://www.koreanfilm.org/books.html
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| | PopMatters Columns Brian Ruh From Here to Shinjuku America's Japanese Cinema: Appropriating Japan's Cachet of ... |
| | True, all three films feature the country of Japan in a starring role and were made with the support of Japanese actors and crew, but they are all distinctly American imaginings of Japan. | | | It only makes sense that the current popularity of Japan has not translated into more Japanese films being shown in US theaters. | | | The Last Samurai also relied on the trite and stale images of Japan that have come to be prevalent in popular conceptions of Japan and the Japanese. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/columns/ruh/040114.shtml
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| | Cinema Treasures Japan |
| | Home » Theater Guide » Location » Japan | | | A list of classic movie theaters in Japan | | | Make sure you participate in this week's Cinema Treasures poll! |
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http://cinematreasures.org/location/country=83&sort=screens
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| | Lisa's Japanese Movie Listing: Movies and Films involving Japan or Japanese characters |
| | Posing as an underworld figure, a martial artist infiltrates the largest gang in Japan where he is hired as a hitman. | | | I have watched many Japanese movies over the years, and have put my own notes along with the notes of friends and family. | | | Lisa's Japanese Movie Listing: Movies and Films involving Japan or Japanese characters |
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http://www.lisashea.com/japan/movies/mov_main.html
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| | It's taken only three years for the New Cinema From Japan stand to become a real fixture in the market. | | | Most crucially, the Japan Foundation's media department agreed to fund the venture." | | | Takashi Nishimura, the stand's founder and co-ordinator, recalls how the marketing project took shape in his mind at the 1991 Berlinale. |
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http://www.filmfestivals.com/berlin99/html/us/market15.htm
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| | Wilco • • Pop Culture and Cinema • Travel to Tokyo, Japan |
| | Wilco • • Pop Culture and Cinema • Travel to Tokyo, Japan | | | Part of Wilco's Pacific region tour, this is an indoor all-night festival | | | Travel Tip: Pop Culture and Cinema in Japan |
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http://www.culturekiosque.com/travel/item2343.html
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| | Screen Digest: DATABOX--CINEMA: JAPAN@ HighBeam Research |
| | 1976 2,453 1983 2,239 1977 2,420 1984 2,191 1978 2,392 1985 2,137 1979 2,374 1986 2,109 1980 2,364 1987 2,053 1981 2,298 1988 2,005 1982 2,267 1989 1,912 [Eiren] JAPAN: ADMISSIONS/GROSS BOX OFFICE admissions GBO av.ticket 000s Ym Y 1980 164,422... | | | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. | | | Search for more information on HighBeam Research for. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:41203116&refid=ink_tptd_np
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| | Videos, Genres, Art House & International, Asian Cinema, Japan Products |
| | Walt Disney Video has done a really cool job! | | | » Videos » Genres » Art House & International » Asian Cinema » Japan | | | Videos, Genres, Art House & International, Asian Cinema, Japan Products |
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http://vhs.lowcost.us.com/list_162185/Videos_Genres_Art_House_International_Asian_Cinema_Japan...
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| | Bright Lights Film Journal Japanese Cinema |
| | Japan's first film actress: Tokuko Nagai Takagi (1891 – 1919) — This forgotten star was caught up — and perhaps crushed — by larger historical forces | | | Kenji Mizoguchi &; Mizoguchi, with Ozu and Kurosawa one of the three undisputed masters from the golden age of Japanese cinema, was born in 1898 in the middle class district of Hongo, in Tokyo. | | | Masterpieces of Japanese Silent Cinema — Japanese silent films are no longer silent in this fabulous — and expensive — DVD-ROM |
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http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/japan.html
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| | Cinema Studies/Japan and Its Cinema in the 1990's |
| | Directed by Yoji Yamada and starring Rentaro Mikuni, one of Japan's foremost actors; Masatoshi Nagase, who appeared in Jim Jarmusch's | | | Director Hirokazu Kore-eda began his film-making career with documentaries about social issues (such as biographies of the first person in Japan to admit publicly to having AIDS and of a Korean man who "passed" as Japanese for decades); turning to features, Kore-eda was named the most promising new director by the Tokyo International Film Association. | | | Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and starring celebrated model Makiko Esumi. |
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http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema/events/archive/japan90s.html
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| | CINEMA |
| | The most fomous CINEMA LEGO in the world. |
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http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood/9060/cinemae.html
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| | Japanese Curriculum Units for NEH Workshops |
| | Lecture: this would take place before screening of films | | | Discussion: this would take place after screening of films | | | Developments in cinema in postwar Japan (birth of gendaigeki) |
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http://web.jccc.net/neh/units_japan/pojmann.htm
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| | Midnight Eye book review: The Cinema of Japan and Korea (Justin Bowyer) |
| | The Cinema of Japan and Korea is made up of 24 essays on as many individual films (13 from Japan, 11 from Korea), written by a team of contributors ranging from the well-established to the relatively new, all from a variety of backgrounds (including yours truly and my esteemed co-editor on this website Jasper Sharp). | | | That Japan's rich cinematic heritage is worthy of a book in its own right is an obvious retort, as is the question as to why Japan and Korea should be put together in a single volume in the first place. | | | The Cinema of Japan and Korea is well worth considering for its Japanese half, and pretty much indispensable for its Korean section. |
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http://www.midnighteye.com/books/cinema-of-japan-and-korea.shtml
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| | Midnight Eye - The latest and best in Japanese cinema - interviews, features, film reviews, book reviews, calendar of ... |
| | Stevenson's classic pirate yarn transposed to the realm of the antropomorphic. | | | Be the first to hear about our new reviews, exclusive interviews and features. | | | Midnight Eye - The latest and best in Japanese cinema - interviews, features, film reviews, book reviews, calendar of events and DVD releases, links and more... |
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http://www.midnighteye.com/index.php
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| | Cinema of Japan at Film-North, Kurosawa |
| | University courses and scholarly publications constructed film as an international art form; it was not faceless commercial entertainment, but modernist work by auteurs such as Bergman, Fellini, and Kurosawa that called for academic work on film. | | | Filled with beautiful black and white photography and dynamic montage, his movement of the camera and use of long shots complemented the complex and circular story. | | | However, it was Kurosawa's direction of DRUNKEN ANGEL (1948) that made a name for the scenarist, as well as for the actor who would be forever connected with him, Mifune Toshiro. |
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http://film.vtheatre.net/japan.html
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| | Stanford JGuide - Japan > Cinema |
| | Stanford Japan Guide > Arts & Entertainment > Cinema | | | JGuide is the WWW Virtual Library for Japan and Japanese Related Topics |
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http://jguide.stanford.edu/site/cinema_21.html
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| | RKMBs v8.0: Rob's Damn Boards: Warners Tests D-Cinema in Japan |
| | They will be sent over NTT's fiber-optic lines from WB's Burbank HQ across the Pacific and then distributed to three Toho theaters in Osaka and Tokyo. | | | WB and NTT have been talking about such a test for a year, but had to wait until Digital Cinema Initiatives completed its technical specification for d-cinema, which occurred in August. | | | Joint effort will be one of the first real-world tests of the DCI specspec. |
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http://www.robkamphausen.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/607318
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| | Untitled Document |
| | His current project is a book on the first 50 years of Japanese documentary film and theory. | | | He has also been a coordinator for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan since 1990. | | | Forthcoming articles include an analysis of multiple translation of Paul Rotha's Documentary Film in 1930s Japan (Cinema Journal), and a look at the history of subtitling from the perspective of translation theory (Film Quarterly). |
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http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/Papers/CityOfSadness/bios.html
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| | Japan DVD : Picks : Kurosawa |
| | A New History Of Japanese Cinema: A Century Of Narrative Film |
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http://www.gofubar.com/shop/us/dvd/front/kurosawa_dvd
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock CE-CM |
| | On Into the State of Flux (Musea FGBG 4346.AR), they have moved away from Fromage's rather obvious neo-progressive rock sound, but they still maintain a heavy synthesizer presence, melodic accessibility and, unfortunately, a very uneven song quality. | | | NEWS: Guitarist Masayuki Adachi of Azoth has made Cinderella Search's latest CD available by mail-order from his web site. | | | Only in print in Japan is Celeste's Principe Di Un Giorno or just Celeste as its released in Japan. |
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http://www.gepr.net/ce.html
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| | Midnight Eye index of Book Reviews |
| | Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas | | | The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan | | | To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema |
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http://www.midnighteye.com/books/index.shtml
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| | Xploited Cinema - JAPAN ORGANISED CRIME BOSS |
| | Be sure to checkout all of the Kinji Fukasaku Yakuza films Xploited Cinema has for sale. | | | Tsukamoto is to learn that things have changed while he was in prison, as he tries to keep the old Yakuza code with this new ruthless breed of criminal who lives and fights without honor! | | | Before ordering please make sure your DVD player supports this format. |
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http://www.xploitedcinema.com/dvds/dvds.asp?title=973
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| | Find in a Library: The cinema of Japan & Korea |
| | Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Japan. | | | Find in a Library: The cinema of Japan & Korea | | | To find this item in a library, enter a postal code, state, province, or country in the field above. |
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http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/60fdca1d5cbeed7aa19afeb4da09e526.html
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| | Japan Store : Books : Categories |
| | -- Vote for us in the Topsites Japan Rankings |
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http://www.japan-zone.com/cgi-bin/amazon_products_feed.cgi?mode=books&input_...
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| | Film and Cinema: Japan and China |
| | I am appalled at how ignorant I am regarding Asia-Pacific cinema. | | | Ran (cinema and VHS) – Kurosawa’s sumptuous King Lear. | | | (cinema and VHS) – Kurosawa’s melancholy and disturbing farewell. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~p.g.h/culture_cinema_japan.htm
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