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  • Manji
  • The Affair
  • Affair in the Snow
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • Bitter End of a Sweet Night

My Japanese Canon

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My Japanese film experience... all the Japanese films I’ve seen that have formed my education in and love for Japanese…

  • The Dancing Girl of Izu
  • Nobuko
  • Apostasy
  • Portrait of Madame Yuki
  • Ginza Cosmetics

Asian Cinema Based on Books

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Like the book? See the movie! Like the movie? Read the book! Films that originated in fiction, short stories, and…

  • Thousand Cranes
  • The Priest and the Beauty
  • One Day at Summer's End
  • Beauty the Enemy
  • Love and Greed

In Search of Subs

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Looking for English subtitles for these movies. If you can link me up with them, I'd be very appreciative!

  • Actress
  • Les Mesdemoiselles
  • Beauty the Enemy
  • Love and Greed
  • The Priest and the Beauty

White Whales

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Leads appreciated as far as helping me track down a copy of these most coveted films. #ayakowakaofan

  • Reality Bites
  • Sideways
  • Bonjour Tristesse
  • Heartburn
  • Ira & Abby

Are these any good? Does it matter?

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Sentimental favorites, nostalgic moods. Sourced from all kinds of life situations, phases, and eras. Memories abound. Comfort food film.

  • The Backrooms (Found Footage)
  • Lonely Water
  • The Reflecting Pool
  • Out of Town
  • Liminal

Shorts and Odds

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The crumbly bits at the bottom of the bag… unexpected experiments from the strange edges,

  • Belle de Jour
  • The Soft Skin
  • Blow-Up
  • La Notte
  • Bay of Angels

1960s World Cinema

82 films Edit list

I see the 1960s as a beautiful sort of liminal boundary between an older, more traditional conceptualization of life and…

  • Conflagration
  • Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
  • Ghost World
  • Chungking Express
  • Eat Drink Man Woman

Must See Film

47 films Edit list

My essentials. In no particular order.