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By day: lumpenproletariat. By night: Japan-based film critic and writer for Il Manifesto and other publications. Independently writing and researching about Asian documentary here: asian-docs.com

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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative—a collaborative project of UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo—proudly present The Art of the Benshi, a limited edition box set that celebrates Japan’s remarkable “film orators.” flickeralley.com/products/the...
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The Art of the Benshi (Limited Edition)
Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative proudly present The Art of the Benshi, a limited edition 4K UHD box set that celebrates Japan’s remarkable “film orators”
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Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Screenwriter Kuramoto So, famous for the Kita no kuni kara TV series, passed away 9/18 at the age of 91. He also wrote scripts for films. The big 3 scriptwriters of Japanese TV were Mukoda Kuniko, Yamada Taichi, and Kuramoto So. All three are now gone. R.I.P. www.oricon.co.jp/news/2482907...
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倉本聰さん多臓器不全のため死去 享年91 「北の国から」など数々の名作を生んだ脚本家【全文】
ニュース| 脚本家・劇作家・演出家の倉本聰さんが9月18日夕刻、多臓器不全のため自宅で死去した。享年91。倉本さんが理事長を務めていた財団が28日、発表した。葬儀は遺族の意向により、近親者で執り行われた。 サイトでは「当財団理事長であり、脚本家として長年にわたり創作活動を続けてまいりました倉本聰は、令和8年9月18日夕刻、多臓器不全のため自宅にて永眠いたしました。享年91でございました」と伝えた。
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Zen and Studio Ghibli (October 3-December 12) is "an exhibition exploring Zen through the works of Studio Ghibli, and based on the book Zen and Ghibli, which compiles conversations between Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki and Zen monks." zen-ghibli.jp/kyoto/englis...
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チケット|京都展|禅とジブリ
この時代をどうやり過ごすか。『禅とジブリ』10月3日(土)~12月6日(日) 京都市京セラ美術館 新館東山キューブにて開催!
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my next flat www.wakuwakuchintai.com/wakuchin/wak...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ねこひきのオルオラネ Oruorane the Cat Player (Nishikubo Mizuho, 1992)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
47 Km series (Zhang Mengqi) /Self-Portrait with Three Women (2010) asian-docs.com/2026/09/23/4...
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47 Km series (Zhang Mengqi) /Self-Portrait with Three Women (2010)
It’s always fascinating when a filmmaker engages with a specific place and a group of people over a long period of time and the history of documentary cinema provides many stunning examples: the Up…
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Icarus Films is deeply honored to have worked with Chilean master documentarian Patricio Guzmán (1941-2026) on the North American distribution of his films for the past 30 years. In commemoration,we’re making all of Patricio's films available to stream for free this week" mailchi.mp/icarusfilms/...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The 4K digital remaster of Hasegawa Kazuhiko's The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) to be released in Japanese theaters on October 16th:
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the opening is pure gold, so true "I love so many things about writing essays. They help me organize my thoughts. They help me realize what my thoughts actually are, working through my arguments as I make them. They help me develop better supporting arguments. Seeing my words on a page..."
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
なぜ日本のドキュメンタリーが韓国で「異例の」大ヒット? 統合失調症の姉と家族を記録し続けた衝撃作 www.banger.jp/news/183972/
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なぜ日本のドキュメンタリーが韓国で「異例の」大ヒット? 統合失調症の姉と家族を記録し続けた衝撃作 | あなたが観たい、おすすめ映画・ドラマが一発でみつかる BANGER!!!(バンガー) 映画愛、爆発!!!
統合失調症の姉を見つめる『どうすればよかったか?』ドキュメンタリー映画『どうすればよかったか?』が公開されたのは2024年の12月。統合失調…
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is from the abridged version (10'), the original is almost 30' long
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1日240時間 240 Hours in One Day (Teshigahara Hiroshi, 1970) asian-docs.com/2024/04/22/1...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
by the way, this trailer is the king of cringness... I know I'm not the target, but still...I had to cover my eyes and ears in the theater. youtu.be/l4XZtIPhpbQ?...
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『うるわしの宵の月』予告|2026年10月23日(金)公開
YouTube video by 東宝MOVIEチャンネル
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
well...a couple of inspired scenes, but overall disappointing... I'm all in for freely adapting the original material...but Shimizu went too far in my opinion...
Ticket for 八つ墓村
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William Andrews @william-andrews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote a few thoughts about the new short film Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo. throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/m...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NDU's Onikko - A Record of the Struggle of Youth Laborers (1969) to be screened on September 19 & October 12 at Osaka Planet Plus One. NDU films are rarely screened, so if you're into militant cinema, don't miss it. planetplusone.studio.site more about NDU here: asian-docs.com/2018/07/25/a...
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PLANET+1 | プラネットプラスワン
フィルム上映専門の映画館。中崎町駅から徒歩1分。16mm・35mmにて上映。サイレント映画はピアノ・語り・バイオリン生演奏付きの回あり。
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Pordenone Silent Film Festival 2026 (Le giornate del Cinema Muto 2026) has revealed its online section (October 3-10): www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...
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ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
3 > 10 ottobre 2026
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Alicia Haddick/アリシア🔜Tokyo Game Show @aliciahaddick.com · 15/09/2026
I can now, finally, share this: I've wrote a book! And you can order it! Driven by never-before-seen access to his archive of storyboards, props and images and one-on-one interviews, Archive: Shinya Tsukamoto is a deep dive into the creative process of the cult indie director
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For more than 40 years, Shinya Tsukamoto has been on the cutting edge of independent cinema. Now, he opens up his entire archive of behind-the-scenes materials for every major work in his career – even the ones never seen outside of Japan! www.lostincult.co.uk/tsukamoto
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Lost In Cult
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tsukamoto's Mr. Nelson, Have You Killed Anyone? has sold almost 8000 tickets in its first 3 days with earnings of more than 12 Million yen (the film is distributed, at the moment, in only 8 theaters): beidarboxoffice.com?p=2310
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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The Forbidden Deleuze: For Palestine, Against Genocide • Ill Will
For Pasquale Liguori, Deleuze's pro-Palestinian writings offer a paradigm for political individuation.
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Japanese box office of the past weekend: while Nolan's the Odyssey has earned more, Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island stayed at the top having sold more tickets... eiga.com/ranking/jp/
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国内映画ランキング(2026年9月11日~2026年9月13日) - 映画.com
国内映画ランキング : 2026年9月11日~2026年9月13日 全国の週末3日間の興行成績を元に集計した国内の映画ランキング(興行通信社提供)。トップ10を毎週火曜日更新!
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
incredible brain fart yesterday, while rewatching Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe, I thought "something is missing, did they cut the version on Netflix?" just to realise I in fact was watching the first Hathaway...🫠
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just found out the English version of Miyazaki 出発点 (Starting Point), and the French one too apparently, both omit a couple of essays on books (on Jōmon period, and one on agriculture by Nakao Sasuke)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
side note: trailers for Japanese movies should stop using two voices (male and female) to say the title...it happens for every romantic drama or love story...just stop it...also titles are too long... a 🧵
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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A ★★★½ review of Look Back (2026)
My strongest impression after leaving the theatre (without touching the faithfulness to the manga and the comparison with the anime) is that Kotre'eda's Look Back is formally very good. It felt to me ...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
today's movie
postcard of Look Back given at the cinema: a drawing of the two protagonists working on a mangaticket for Kore'eda's Look Back
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Self-Portrait: 47 KM, the series of 10 documentaries shot in the span of a decade by filmmaker Zhang Mengqui in rural China to be screened at Pole Pole in November: zmq47.jp#schedule
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ジャン・モンチー監督 47KMシリーズ特集上映
47KMシリーズ全10作品を上映する初の特集上映。2026年11月7日から20日まで、ポレポレ東中野にて開催。
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Ideon: A Contact and The Ideon: Be Invoked (1982) to be shown on the big screen on September 22 and 30: www.shin-bungeiza.com/schedule#d20...
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作品一覧 - 新文芸坐
感動はスクリーンから。池袋駅東口徒歩3分の名画座。
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tsukamoto's Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? opens in Japan tomorrow ...but only in few prefectures...and 9 theaters...and they're not the usual ones (no mini-theaters as far as I understand) what's going on?
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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A ★★★½ review of Trophy (2026)
Feature film debut for Son Myong A, a third-generation Zainichi Korean, who previousy worked at a TV production company before joining Kore'eda's Bunbuku in 2017, where she served as an assistant dire...
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Matt Schley @mattschley.com · 07/09/2026
My chat with Shinya Tsukamoto about his latest film, Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?:
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Shinya Tsukamoto talks Venice competition war drama ‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’
The Japanese filmmaker behind 'Fires On The Plain' and 'Killing' on the "definitive work" in his series of features about war.
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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A ★★★½ review of Arrested Memory (2026)
The film opens in police-thriller territory, both in its locations, the harbour and the interior of a ship where an interrogation is taking place, and in its visual style. The cinematography and produ...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
mangaka Abe Shin'ichi has passed away. He was 76. news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/94f...
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漫画家の安部慎一さん死去 76歳 顎下腺がん 息子・安部コウセイが報告「父の作品はずっと生き続けます」(オリコン) - Yahoo!ニュース
『美代子阿佐ヶ谷気分』などで知られる漫画家の安部慎一さんが、9月4日に顎下腺がんのため亡くなった。76歳。息子でロックバンド・HINTOのメンバーの安部コウセイが8日、自身のXにて発表した。
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
イメージフォーラム・フェスティバル 2026 Image Forum Festival 2026 www.imageforumfestival.com/2026/
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
トロフィー Trophy (Son Myung-ah, 2026) this was good
a young girl in a traditional Korean dress
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
glad CROSSCUT ASIA (+) is back 2026.tiff-jp.net/news/en/?p=2...
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39th TIFF to Launch Three New Initiatives
Promoting Japanese Cinema: Nippon Cinema Now Competitio […]...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
神戸発掘映画祭 2026 Kobe Discovery Film Festival 2026 October 10-12: kobe-eiga.net/kdff/kdff_20...
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Soejima has a new work, Dear Marie, at this year Gwangju Biennale (Sept-Nov), can't wait to see it. (source: the evil place)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
here we go... first film of the day was the rarely screened 幻日 Genjitsu (Takechi Tetsuji, 1966) a dream in images, very strong in its first part, Teshigahara-like...almost a masterpiece....but it falls of a cliff in the second part... fascinating nonetheless
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
finally Rintarõ's Nezumikozo Jirokichi (2023) is available online!
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
best first watched in August: me*(2024) The Cat and the Canary (2027) Myanmar Girls (2026) Undetectable Box (2019) Blue Blood (1914) こうして僕らは戦士になった (2026)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
あゝ青春の胸の血は Aa, seishun no mune no chi wa (Morinaga Kenjirō, 1964)
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
it's out, get it folks!
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
it's here Adachi Masao, Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw and Japan's Cinema of Revolution by @william-andrews.bsky.social Awai Books
cover of the book

at the center the title in green "Adachi Masao," and pink "Pink Auteur and Japan's Cinema of Revolution"
at the bottom in green "William Andrews"
background is black with small drawings: middle finger, a ladder, a mouth, a bawl of rice with chopsticks, a carB&W drawing of Adachi Masao smoking a cigarette
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the new film by Sabu is good, dare I say, very good
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
good morning
preparatory drawing for Miyazaki's unrealised project Rowlf ロルフ

a wolf/dog-like human figure is holding a machine gun, a young girl with very long pinkish hair and no clothes is hiding behind him/it
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Reuters @reuters.com · 27/08/2026
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama dies at 97, Kyodo says reut.rs/4wQ6ZxM
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama dies at 97, Kyodo says
Japanese ​avant-garde ​artist ⁠Yayoi ​Kusama, ​97, has ​died, ​Kyodo ‌news ⁠agency ​reported ​on ⁠Thursday.
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matteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Anatomia dei corpi ibridi In dialogo con Tsukamoto Shin'ya" Marsilio 2026 By Maria Roberta Novielli (1964-2026)
cover of the book on Tsukamoto 
on a beige background on the bottom right a circle with a photo of Tsukamoto 'on fire'
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William Andrews @william-andrews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My interview with the Books on Asia Podcast about my biography of Adachi Masao, released next week by @awaibooks.bsky.social booksonasia.net/podcast/boa-...
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BOA Podcast 93—Adachi Masao: Pink Films, Red Politics with William Andrews  - Books on Asia
John talks to Tokyo-based researcher, writer and translator William Andrews about Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw, his new biography of this provocative filmmaker and revolutionary.
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