A collection of some of my reviews printed in The Daily Yomiuri. It has not been updated in quite a while due to site problems, but it features a good set of reviews of Japanese cinema just when it was getting exciting in the late 1990s. I will upload some later reviews in the near future.
Here are some reviews and reports on films and other movie events on Tangemania:
Movies:
The Borrower Arrietty / Karigurashi no Arietti (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, 2010)
Children of the Dark (Sakamoto Junji, 2008)
From Up on Poppy Hill (Miyazaki Goro, 2011)
Live Tape (Matsue Tetsuaki, 2009)
Tokyo Tower: Me and Mom, and Sometimes Dad (Matsuoka Joji, 2007)
Yatterman (Miike Takashi, 2009)
Film Events:
Japan Society of Image Arts and Science (2010)
Koreeda Hirokazu at Yale 1 (2011)
Koreeda Hirokazu at Yale 2 (2011)
Kurosawa Akira Symposium (2008)
Relocating Ozu: The Question of an Asian Cinema Aesthetic (2010)
Tokyo International Film Festival 2009