Japanese Cinema Blogathon: Let The Blogging Begin!
Welcome to the Japanese Cinema blogathon to help aid the recent natural disasters in Japan, hosted by JapanCinema and CinemaFanatic.
If you’ve written a post for the blogathon, leave a link to it in the comments section and I will add it to the ongoing list below. Don’t forget to add a link to the donation page in your post and feel free to use one of these banners on your blog. Also, please link back to this post so your readers can see all the participating blogs.
Tuesday, March 15th:
- YAM Magazine reviews Mamoru Hosoda’s サマーウォーズ (Summer Wars)
- 24 Frames takes a look at Kurosawa’s High and Low
- Juan reviews Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
- Millie at Classic Forever reviews Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter
- Laura at No Lies, Just Love writes about how she discovered Japanese Cinema
- Clara at Via Margutta 51 reviews Isao Takahata’s Only Yesterday
- Carl at Losing Sight of Land reviews Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro
- CinemaFanatic takes a look at how Japanese Cinema has fared at the Academy Awards
- Bette’s Classic Movie Blog reviews Miyazaki’s Ponyo
- Bookshop @Livejournal reviews Teinosuke Kinugasa’s 1926 film Kurutta ippêji (Page of Madness)
- David at CouchCutter lists 5 Takashi Miike Films You Have to See
Wednesday, March 16th:
- YAM Magazine reviews Tetsuya Nakashima’s パコと魔法の絵本 (Paco and the Magical Book)
- Hungry Lemur writes about Ogawa Shinsuke’s documentary Manzan benigaki (Red Persimmons)
- Juan discusses Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu (House)
- Body of a Greek Goddess discusses the subtitling of Japanese films
- ML Clark reviews Kihachi Okamoto’s The Sword of Doom
- Criterion Reflections takes a look at Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress
- Caroline at Garbo Laughs reviews Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- YAM Magazine reviews Mamoru Hosoda’s 時をかける少女 (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
- Red Letter Prints takes a look at Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- Vikram Kamat reviews Mikio Naruse’s Floating Clouds
- Vikram Kamat reviews Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes
- Vikram Kamat reviews Shuji Terayama’s To Die in the Country
- Sinamatic Salve-ation discusses Eastern Ways in Western Dress: Cultural Hybridity and Subversion in Kurosawa’s Yojimbo
- Mr. C. of Planet Chocko Zone reviews Makoto Naitô’s The 13 Steps of Maki
- MoviesInFrames – Rashōmon, 1950 (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
- MonkeyWonder posts a scene from Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring
- Bookshop @Livejournal takes a look at Images of Women in Japanese Films
Thursday, March 17th:
- YAM Magazine reviews Sang-il Lee’s フラガール (Hula Girls)
- Jack reivews Takeshi Koike’s レドライン (Redline)
- CinemaFanatic looks at 10 beautiful posters from classic Japanese Cinema
- DJ White at JapanCinema reviews Takashi Miike’s Audition
- Jack at Lights! Camera! Critic! reviews Kore-eda Hirokazu’s 誰も知らない (Nobody Knows)
- Jack at Lights! Camera! Critic! reviews Nakashima Tetsuya’s 告白 (Confessions)
- Caroline at Garbo Laughs reviews Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso
- Bookshop @Livejournal takes a look at “The Bag” in Takashi Miike’s Audition
Friday, March 18th:
- YAM Magazine reviews Yojiro Takita’s Academy-Award-Winning おくりびと Okuribito (Departures)
- Jennifer at SilentStanzas writes about actor Sessue Hayakawa
- Kendra at VivAndLarry reviews Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amour
- Anti-Manifesto’s tribute to Miyazaki’s Mononoke-hime
- Sinamatic Salve-ation discusses Zombies, Interdimensional Travel and Rock’n’Roll: Pulp Fiction and Japanese Cinema
- Caroline at Garbo Laughs reviews Miyazaki’s Pom Poko
Saturday, March 19th:
- YAM Magazine reviews Naoto Kumazawa’s ニライカナイからの手紙 (Letters from Kanai Nirai)
- The Lady Eve’s Reel Life reviews Juzo Itami’s comedy Tampopo
- MarcC at Go, See, Talk! reviews Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle
- MarcC at Go, See, Talk! reviews Goro Miyazaki’s Tales From Earthsea
- MarcC at Go, See, Talk! presents “Miyazaki Madness”
- YAM Magazine reviews Tatsuya Ishihara and Yasuhiro Takemoto’s 涼宮ハルヒの消失 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
- dear8lue at GreenTeaGraffiti writes a tribute for the works of Iwai Shunji
- Caroline at Garbo Laughs reviews Yoshifumi Kondō’s Whisper of my Heart
- YAM Magazine reviews Kawano Koji’s ラブ マイ ライフ (Love My Life)
- CinemaFanatic discusses her love of Gojira (Godzilla) films.
Sunday, March 20th
- Sinamatic Salve-ation discusses Controlled Testimonies: Cinema, the State, and Nationalism
- Raymond Owen reviews Yasujiro Ozu’s 1931 silent film Tokyo Chorus
- Caroline at Garbo Laughs reviews Hiroyuki Morita’s The Cat Returns
- Daniel at The Ghibli Blog discusses connection between Toei Doga’s Wan Wan Chushingura and Miyazaki’s Ponyo
Monday, March 21st
- MarcC at Go, See, Talk! presents the final four of “Miyazaki Madness”
- David Blakeslee at the Criterion Cast discusses Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth
- Andreas at Pussy Goes Grrr reviews Shinya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man, while Ashley reviews Miyazaki’s Ponyo
- For Cinephiles by a Cinefille discusses Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Influence on American Filmmakers
- Extra Sugar, Extra Salt takes a look at the films of Tetsuya Nakashima
- Diandra at Double Feature Fight reviews the Maiku Hama: Private Eye trilogy
- The Projector Has Been Drinking talks about the classic anime show Star Blazers
Posted on March 15, 2011, in Blogathon and tagged Japanese Cinema Blogathon. Bookmark the permalink. 71 Comments.
the diary of a film history fanatic 
Just posted a review on Kurosawa’s HIGH AND LOW.
This is a great idea. Our prays and best wishes go out to the Japanese people.
http://thechosenjuan.tumblr.com/post/3876501779/spirited-away-sen-to-chihiro-no
Just wrote this up between last night and this morning. Glad to participate in this~
Here’s the link to my post! 😀
http://classicforever.blogspot.com/2011/03/japanese-cinema-blogathon-tokyo-drifter.html
Here is a link to my input for the blogathon. Its not much but its filled with love.
http://alaurazane.blogspot.com/
Happy to have taking part.
Here’s my review, hope people donate:
http://via-51.blogspot.com/2011/03/japanese-cinema-blogathon-only.html
Thanks for setting this up! It’s a great way to help Japan, and also to establish more networking among bloggers that enjoy quality movies. I’m glad to be able to help spread the word.
Here’s the link to my post. Hope these posts help people donate!
http://bettesmovieblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/japanese-cinema-blogathon-ponyo-2008.html
I am totally doing this! My first post, a review of Kurutta Ippeji (1926), is right this-a way. Help Japan!
5 Takashi Miike films that must be seen:
http://couchcutter.com/2011/03/15/5-takashi-miike-films-you-have-to-see/
Here’s my post on Ogawa’s Red Persimmons. Thanks for setting this up.
Here’s another one for you!
http://thechosenjuan.tumblr.com/post/3898712014/how-does-one-go-about-describing-a-film-like
Here’s another one: http://bodyofageekgoddess.blogspot.com/2011/03/blogging-for-japan-subtitling-japanese.html
My review of Miyazaki’s “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” (1984).
You can add Olivia’s review of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives:
http://www.redletterprints.com/2011/03/film-uncle-boonmee-who-can-recall-his.html#comments
Our review on “The 13 Steps of Maki” (1975)
small piece/video clip about Ozu’s Late Spring http://monkeywonder.tumblr.com/post/3909533051/a-scene-from-late-spring-directed-by-yasujiro-ozu
i keep forgetting to link back! http://bookshop.livejournal.com/1088221.html
A review of Redline 🙂
http://elegiacomo.tumblr.com/post/3918531778
My review of Nobody Knows: http://lights-camera-critic.blogspot.com/2011/03/nobody-knows-review.html
Got another one for you! My review of Miyazaki’s “Porco Rosso” (1992) http://garbolaughs.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/porco-rosso-1992/
Here is my #3: a post about Asian horror & the use of the bag trope in Audition to synthesize numerous genre expectations and conflicts, lol. have fun summing that up. 😀 I just called the post “What’s in the bag?”
This is a wonderful idea.
My blog is Silent Stanzas, and I’ve written about Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese movie star:
http://silentstanzas.blogspot.com/2011/03/tanka-for-sessue-and-how-you-can-help.html
My little contribution:
http://anti-manifesto.tumblr.com/post/3948126494/mononoke-hime-hayao-miyazaki-this-is-my-little
Another Ghibli – “Pom Poko” (1994)
come on guys! I know you can make it~ 100 non-YAM Magazine posts by the end of the blogathon~
Here’s a link to my post:
http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/03/for-japan.html
I’d like to offer my reviews to this:
Howl’s Moving Castle – http://www.goseetalk.com/?p=7797
Tales From Earth Sea – http://www.goseetalk.com/?p=7734
And Go,See,Talk’s entire Miyazaki Madness Tournament: http://www.goseetalk.com/?p=7750
Here is a few more:
http://www.yam-mag.com/reviews/film-reviews/the-disappearance-of-haruhi-suzumiya/
and
http://www.greenteagraffiti.com/Movies/Japanese/The-Space-Between-the-Words-The-Imaginary-Realities-of-Iwai-Shunji.html
A little early today – “Whisper of the Heart” (1995)
Oh, did we forget to send this one?
Here we go…http://sinaphile.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/controlled-testimonies-cinema-the-state-and-nationalism/
My weekly column on the Criterion Collection’s Eclipse Series will publish tomorrow at 3 p.m. EDT, Noon PDT. This week I’m reviewing Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth. Here’s a shortlink, but it won’t work until the article is published. Thanks!
http://criterioncast.com/?p=13331
I just came here to comment with my new post, but it looks like my blog did it for me! Can you believe together we reviewed 12 Studio Ghibli films and NOBODY overlapped? Incredible!
Hello! I’m joining the Blogathon, too. Here’s my entry for Sunday:
http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2011/03/wan-wan-chushingura-ponyo-connection.html
This post is about a connection between Hayao Miyazaki’s movie Ponyo, and the 1963 Toei Doga movie, Wan Wan Chushingura, which was the very first movie Miyazaki worked on. Let me know what you think.
And if anyone needs a banner for the blogathon, feel free to use the one I created. It’s a scene from Horus, Prince of the Sun
Here’s Pussy Goes Grrr’s contribution! Thanks! http://mendthiscrack.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/gross-horror-and-pleasant-anime-two-tastes-that-taste-odd-together/
This took far longer than I intended.http://cine-fille.com/2011/03/21/hirokazu-koreeda-so-yong-kim/
http://doublefeaturefight.blogspot.com/2011/03/9-maiku-hama-trilogy-1994-1996.html
And late, last, but I hope not least, my own contribution to the blogathon, about a child’s journey with a celestial battleship and train…
http://projectorhasbeendrinking.blogspot.com/2011/03/148000-light-years-and-back-sailing-on.html
So… what’s the post count? =D How much is YAM donating?
I believe the final count was 63, but non-YAM it’s 55
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