Tagged: country: japan

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13 Assassins

13 Assassins is Takashi Miike’s remake of the 1963 version, that follows a group of samurai that are sent to kill the Shogun’s half-brother.

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Salyu – More

Salyu, credited as salyu x salyu, performing More / Tsuzuki o (続きを), closing song for her upcoming experimental album s(o)un(d) beams.

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Bonnie Pink – The Sun Will Rise Again

Japanese singer songwriter Bonnie Pink has released a single called The Sun Will Rise Again, written specifically for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11th. Includes lyrics + romaji + translation.

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Blue (Japanese Film)

Based on the manga by Kiriko Nananan, Blue follows quiet Kirishima, a high school girl that spends most her time admiring what’s around her rather than interacting with it. One day Kirishima strikes up a friendship with Endo, a girl with a mysterious past, and begins admiring her.

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Love my Life

Based on the popular manga by Yamaji Ebine, Love My Life is the story of quirky Ichiko and solemn Eri whom are secret lovers. Ichiko decides she wants to tell her father about her relationship and receives quite a shock when her father confesses he’s also homosexual.

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Letters from Kanai Nirai

Letters from Kanai Nirai tells the story of Fuki Asato, a girl living in the Okinawan islands away from everything that could resemble a big metropolis, including being away from her mother who left the island when Fuki was only seven. Since then, every year on Fuki’s birthday she receives a letter from her mom, making Fuki dream of meeting again.

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Okuribito

Okuribito tells the story of Daigo Kobayashi, an average cellist who’s lost his job and is forced to go back to his hometown where he finds a job as a traditional funeral “artist” to prepare the dead for their “departure.”

Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, The 2

Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, The

The featured movie to the extremely popular anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya let’s us in a bit deeper to some of the characters that didn’t really take place during the anime. In The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon-kun must make a very difficult decision: to stay in the world he lives in or live in a world without Haruhi