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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
pandakadaver.bsky.social
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
pandakadaver.bsky.social
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
pandakadaver.bsky.social
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
pandakadaver.bsky.social
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
pandakadaver.bsky.social
#Japanuary, Nr. 19

The Rocking Horsemen (1992), dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi

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#Japanuary2025 #moviesky #filmsky
A ★★★ review of The Rocking Horsemen (1992)
Japanuary Wish I liked it more and could find the boys-version of the type of film here I would be able to praise besides "Linda, Linda, Linda" and "Swing Girls", but it didn't hit the right notes for...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 18

Immersion 忌怪島／きかいじま (2023), dir. Takashi Shimizu

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#Japanuary2025 #filmsky #moviesky #horrorsky
A ★★ review of Immersion (2023)
Japanuary When you are eager for real horror, seeing my browser history is scarier than these cyber ghosts. Kinda unbelievable that with almost every release people appear and are aroused by the fact ...
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January 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 17

Flic フリック (2005), dir. Masahiro Kobayashi

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#Japanuary2025 #moviesky #thriller #filmsky
A ★★★★ review of Flic (2005)
Japanuary One of the typical 3.8 rated films on LB that can change your life. If I watched it earlier, it could have been one of the great taste-defining titles during the time when I was first expose...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 16

Shikoku 死国 (1999), dir. Shunichi Nagasaki

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#Japanuary2025 #filmsky #moviesky #horror
A ★★★ review of Shikoku (1999)
Japanuary Shoutout to Arrow first for restoring these small unknown titles that would go more unnoticed otherwise. Even initially it was already released as a double bill with Ring 2 to draw every att...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 15

Worlds Apart 違国日記 (2024), dir. Natsuki Seta

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#Japanuary2025 #filmsky #moviesky #違国日記 #japanesecinema
A ★★★ review of Worlds Apart (2024)
Japanuary Asa ends up singing in a band and you didn't make this a music film, wtf? More or less coincidentally I ended up watching this as the second film by Natsuki Seta this week - right after Park...
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January 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 14

Parks パークス (2017), dir. Natsuki Seda

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#Japanuary2025 #moviesky #filmsky
A ★★½ review of Parks (2017)
Japanuary "Back when Gagarin made the first journey into space; "Sukiyaki" was #1 in the US charts; Astroboy aired on TV; the Olympics were held for the first time in Asia and the Vietnam war was goin...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#Japnuary, Nr. 13

Alone in the Night 夜がまた来る (1994), dir. Takashi Ishii

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#Japanuary2025 #moviesky #filmsky
A ★★★½ review of Alone in the Night (1994)
Japanuary Not the usual revenge flick. Stylish and grounded. But also bitter and grounded. A neo-noir yakuza thriller that knows its limits - unlike its heroine. After the violent death of her husband...
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January 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 12

Village of Eight Gravestones 八つ墓村 (1977), dir. Yoshitaro Nomura

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#Japanuary2025 #八つ墓村 #filmsky #moviesky
A ★★★ review of Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)
Japanuary Facts first. It's based on a series of crime novels by Seishi Yokomizo starring detective Kosuke Kindaichi who appeared in over 70 novels. I haven't read an of them but I'm familiar with the...
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January 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
pandakadaver.bsky.social
#Japanuary, Nr. 10

Fatal Frame 劇場版 零〜ゼロ〜 (2014), dir. Mari Asato

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#Japanuary2025 #moviesky #filmsky #fatalframe #projectzero
A ★★½ review of Fatal Frame (2014)
Japanuary Never played the Fatal Frame/Project Zero games before, but know enough to tell that a certain camera takes a bigger role there than it does here, where it's easy to miss it is relevant in t...
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January 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 10

Petal Dance ペタル ダンス (2013), dir. Hiroshi Ishikawa.

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#Japanuary2025 #filmsky #moviesky
A ★★★★ review of Petal Dance (2013)
Japanuary The most beautiful shades of grey. Despite the cinematography being that colorless and desaturated, it never reaches the point of feeling bleak. Instead, it's more like a gentle hug. A hug t...
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January 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 9

Blue Period ブルーピリオド (2024), dir. Kentaro Hagiwara

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#Japanuary2025 #filmsky #moviesky #blueperiod
A ★★★ review of Blue Period (2024)
Japanuary Didn't know it is an adaptation of an anime or manga first, but it becomes obvious quite early considering how fast the story progresses. Up to everyone to decide if it's a good or bad thing...
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January 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 8

Lunch Box たまもの (2004), dir. Shinji Imaoka

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#Japanuary2025 #filmsky
Lunch Box (2004)
The film tells the story of Aiko, a 35-year-old mute woman who works in a bowling alley, and her brief romance with Yoshioka, a younger man who works as a postal carrier. The two meet when Aiko accide...
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January 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Wong Kar-Wai is apparently using his free time to film music videos in Japan for shoegaze bands from Düsseldorf

Attic Ocean - Lilies and Sea
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#shoegaze #atticocean
Attic Ocean - Lilies and Sea (Official Video)
YouTube video by Attic Ocean
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January 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#Japanuary, Nr. 7

Girls' Encounter (2018), dir. Yuuka Eda

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#Japanuary2025 #FilmSky #moviesky
A ★★★★ review of Girls' Encounter (2018)
Japanuary Remember watching it for the first time during the JFF x Moosic Lab collab festival that presented a lot of these peculiar little gems and without being really aware of it at first, it kinda...
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January 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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#Japanuary Nr. 6

Dark Tales of Japan (2004), various directors

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A ★★½ review of Dark Tales of Japan (2004)
Japanuary Well, another anthology. Tales from the Crypt in a Japanese night bus. Though, not a random clip compilation like those countless volumes of "videos of horror" etc., but it consists of works...
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January 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM