“As people, we narrowly get by with our lives each day, energy from our soft, delicate actions appearing like cherry blossoms, only once, and once for a short while. Eventually, petals fall to the ground.” […]
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Inherited Experience: Murakami’s ‘Abandoning a Cat: What I Talk About When I Talk About My Father’
父語りから透ける残虐な偶然 村上春樹「猫を棄てる」 https://t.co/CKQS9s99Vz — 朝日新聞(asahi shimbun) (@asahi) 2019年6月6日 Haruki Murakami’s recent essay, Neko o suteru: Chichioya ni tsuite kataru tokini boku no kataru koto” (Abandoning A Cat: What I Talk About When I Talk About My […]
Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami
What an imagination—and if not wrested out from the imagination to be put on a blank page, what a life! Ryu Murakami’s Almost Transparent Blue shook me violently, coming from Kawabata as I was. The novel […]
The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Basho
I was reading this six months ago when I was stuck in Paris for some weeks (thought I lost my passport). What an epic journey it must have been for Basho, the renowned Japanese poet, […]
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima | Kevin Jae’s book review
On the back cover of the novel, a reviewer compares Mishima with Andre Gide, and this novel does remind me of Gide’s work, as it is profoundly introspective, taking the readers through an uncertain search […]
The New Shinkai Makoto Movie, Weathering With You’s Teaser and Scenes Released
新海誠最新作『天気の子』2019年夏公開決定 ！新海誠監督最新作『天気の子（てんきのこ）』の制作が発表されました。2019年7月19日公開予定、鋭意制作中です。皆様、応援よろしくお願いします！https://t.co/XXPHWzybvs pic.twitter.com/Te56SfEdtm — 新海作品PRスタッフ (@shinkai_works) 2018年12月13日 It’s hard to believe that Your Name, the second-highest-grossing Japanese movie of all time is almost three years old. Following the 2016 hit, director Shinkai Makoto’s highly anticipated […]
The 8th Toronto Japanese Film Festival June 6 to June 27 Hosted by the Japanese Canadian Culture Centre
Welcoming Mikako Tabe, Tatsushi Omori and Toshiyuki Teruya as special guests! Known as the largest Japanese film festival in North America, Toronto Japanese Film Festival will be held once again this June. Last year, the […]
The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata
One needs to be a good listener to read Kawabata properly to hear what is not written. There were times where after a reading session, I felt the quality of my surroundings change, while at […]
Retrospective Feature on Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japanese Cinematic Auteur, to be Screened in Toronto and Montreal
In accordance to Japanese film director and screen writer, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s tour in Canada, his awards winning five-hour piece, Happy Hour (2015) and Asako I & II (2018), will be screening in Toronto on April […]
10 Japanese LGBTQ+ Movies to Watch Now
It’s been big years for LGBTQ+ films—Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name almost made it two in a row for queer themed movies at the Academy Awards. Oscar award winning, The Favourites […]
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