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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

RENOIR now officially listed on the Cannes ticket website. What a journey…

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Back in Paris. Sacré-Cœur - uncrowded rear view

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Extremely honored and pleased to announce that our production of Chie Hayakawa's RENOIR will have its world premiere in the Competition section of the 2025 Festival de Cannes! #Cannes2025

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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Masahiro Shinoda, who has died aged 94, was one of the leading figures in 1960s Japanese cinema, whose taste for artifice and experimentation led to some of the New Wave’s most striking films www.bfi.org.uk/features/mas...

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Masahiro Shinoda obituary: Japanese New Wave director behind Pale Flower and the original Silence

Shinoda, who has died aged 94, was one of the leading figures in 1960s Japanese cinema, whose taste for artifice and experimentation led to some of the New Wave’s most striking films.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Good test screening at Tokyo Cine Center in Shimbashi. They’ve kept their facility and equipment well up to date over the years.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

First day back in Tokyo - snow in mid-March!

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Rare multihyphenate? Producer-Subtitler.

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Michael Arias @michaelarias.net · 11/03/2025

Heroes of 3.11 3.11のヒーローたち #Tohoku #quake #東北 #石巻 #女川 #南三陸

photo by Michael Arias

https://hp.michaelarias.net/Ephemera/TohokuImages/

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Announcing Loaded Films' latest production – RENOIR – written & directed by Chie Hayakawa (PLAN 75). Set in the late 80s, RENOIR stars newcomer Yui Suzuki, Hikari Ishida, Lily Franky, Ayumu Nakajima, Yuumi Kawai, and Ryota Bando. Released 6/20 nationwide! happinet-phantom.com/renoir/ (J)

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映画『ルノワール』公式サイト｜6/20（金）全国公開

第75回カンヌ国際映画祭カメラドール特別賞受賞＆アカデミー賞日本代表選出『PLAN 75』監督・脚本：早川千絵世界待望の最新作

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Feb 15 was the world premiere of Ido Fluk’s KÖLN 75 at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Our recently established company Kinofaction invested a modest amount in the film. Co-founders Eiko Mizuno-Gray & Masahide Kinoshita are credited as Assoc. Producers www.berlinale.de/en/2025/prog...

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Huge billboard for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR outside of our international sales agent Goodfellas’ “house” at the European Film Market, Berlin.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

One of Paris’ many beautiful cinemas.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Japan corner” at the legendary Studio Ferber in Paris. Working on the soundtrack for Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR Apparently Serge Gainsbourg and a lot of famed musicians have recorded here.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Japanese BLOW-UP poster at a Paris café/restaurant I like called Transistor, on Rue du Faubourg St. Denis. #Paris

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in the 10th Arrondissement. The afternoon sun always hits it perfectly. #Paris

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

In Paris for post-production on Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR 🇫🇷 🎞️ 🇯🇵

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I’m shocked and saddened by the violent, apparently random attack at JR Nagano station yesterday evening. My wife is from Nagano City and I consider it my 2nd home in Japan. I always arrive to such a peaceful, pleasant vibe. The attacker is still at large. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01...

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Search for suspect underway after fatal stabbing at Nagano Station

One person died in the attack, which happened around 8 p.m., while two others sustained injuries.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Unrealized housing project in the ‘hood that has stood abandoned for years. Nature has taken over. #東京 #練馬

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In 2018 we shot inside and on the rooftop of the brutalist Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent, among many other locations in across the city and country, for our production of Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 「旅のおわり世界のはじまり」. #Uzbekistan edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/s...

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Is Uzbekistan the next great architectural destination? | CNN

The former Soviet republic is teeming with brutalist, orientalist, modernist, futurist and neoclassical buildings — and has ambitious plans for new architectural landmarks.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our production of PLAN 75 director Chie Hayakawa's upcoming film RENOIR made @Screendaily's list of "75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025". www.screendaily.com/features/75-...

screendaily.com

75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025

Expect films from Chloe Zhao, Carla Simon, Julia Ducournau, Anne-Marie Jacir, Kathryn Bigelow, Lynne Ramsay and (possiby) Lucrecia Martel.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Some kaiju-themed sake for oshogatsu? #お正月

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Sunday zoom meeting done. Last sunset at the Loaded Films/Kinofaction offices for this year. #東京 #渋谷区

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

When buildings are torn down in Tokyo you get views you’ve never seen before — temporarily. And then the view gets even worse. Yoyogi ekimae. #東京 #代々木

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

First official senden (PR) meeting for the film’s release next year.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Dusk over Nerima, Christmas Eve… #東京 #練馬

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Some salarymen use Shinjuku Chuo park as a temporary office. Good choice. #東京 #新宿

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When you crave ramen, nothing else will suffice… #ラーメン #東京 #練馬

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

ADR session today for our latest production — Hayakawa Chie’s RENOIR.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Poster for Gosha Hideo’s VIOLENT STREETS 「暴力街」 in the vintage book shops of Jimbocho.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

View of Shinjuku from Nerima City Office. #東京 #新宿

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

RIP singer and actress Nakayama Miho (54) #中山美穂

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I love November and December in #Tokyo as it’s usually very crisp and sunny, with fall colors popping.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Friedkin’s CRUISING on re-release at Cinemart Shinjuku (who also screened the SORCERER remaster back in 2018).

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Enjoying Netflix series RIPLEY but feel it was a lost opportunity not to switch from the inky monochrome of the NYC scenes to color when he reaches Italy…

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What helped immensely to get away from the (literal) horrorshow of #Twitter #X was simply burying the app icon in the recesses of a folder on my mobile. I went from near constant checking throughout the day to almost 0 in one day.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Annual J-E screenplay translation work. Story of a post-WWII zaibatsu dynasty. #translation

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Filming in The Philippines done and now back in Japan. Pictured: Tali Beach, Batangas.

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Upcoming Kinofaction project THE RETURNING, directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi (OH LUCY!) won two prizes at QCinema’s QPM project market yesterday. Pictured: producer Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Atsuko Hirayanagi, CMB Film Services rep, producer Wilfredo Manalang (Fusee).

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Jason Gray @jgtokyo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Greetings from Tokyo. Looking to discuss the art & business of cinema. (Photo: evening view from the Loaded Films / Kinofaction offices).

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