Review: Twiggy and This Is Sparklehorse The moral of the story that comes through in Sadie Frost’s fawning documentary about 60s fashion icon Twiggy—born Lesley Hornby to working class parents in Cockney London in 1949—is that good…

"Twiggy" and "This Is Sparklehorse" open tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4sU82uK
@twiggyfilm
#ツイッギー
@Sparklehorse_jp
#悲しくて美しい世界

Review: The Old Oak and Lost Land The Old Oak, the title of what is reported to be Ken Loach’s last film, refers to a superannuated pub in Durham, a small town in northern England that was once sustained by a local coal mine,…

"The Old Oak" and "Lost Land" open Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/4cY6knh
@oldoak0424
#オールド・オーク
@lostland_movie
#LOSTLANDロストランド

Review: Song Sung Blue and Is This Thing On? As a producer-director, Craig Brewer has made a lot of music-related narrative works, including the florid hip-hop industry dramas Hustle & Flow and Empire, which address the business side of m…

"Song Sung Blue" and "Is This Thing On?" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4ctO6Zl
@SongSungBlue_JP
#ソング・サング・ブルー #これって生きてる

It's even worse. bit.ly/4mwWTOV

Additional background bit.ly/4mwWTOV

Birds of a feather Moving around, not up

Masako's Story 16: In 1960s Japan, a dream of fitting in bit.ly/41wYnPz #昭和

Birds of a feather Moving around, not up

Masako's Story 16: In 1960s Japan, a dream of fitting in bit.ly/41wYnPz #昭和

Some background bit.ly/3Q0cPgt

"Köln 75" and "It's Okay!" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4ta8cPO
@koln75JP
#1975年のケルン・コンサート
@daijoubu_eiga
#大丈夫大丈夫大丈夫

Review: Hamnet It’s obvious from the start that Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s best-selling novel (both collaborated on the screenplay) is not meant to be taken as a fact-ba…

"Hamnet" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4vjLaHw
@hamnetjp
#ハムネット

Review: Dirty Angels The title sounds like a Roger Corman exploitation flick from the late 60s, and while the movie does carry such a vibe and will probably please the kind of people who go for that kind of thing, our …

"Dirty Angels" opens Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/4mjyPz0 #ダーティ・エンジェルズ

ZooDystopia: How a young monkey points to the real situation in Japanese zoos. bit.ly/4s9KuS9 #パンチくん #日本動物園

Affordability for dummies UR apartment in Tokyo It says something that the big economic buzz word in Trumpworld—affordability—has entered the Japanese lexicon as a katakana term, though it seems to be restricted to real est…

What Tokyo is trying to do about soaring rents. bit.ly/4txPEZv #アフォーダブル住宅 #空き家税

The Option of Adoption Young and in the way

Masako's Story 15: In Showa Japan, when 2 can't afford to live as 1, 1 has to go. bit.ly/413S2ek #昭和

Review: The Legend of Ochi and Pilot Having mostly passed through the 80s in a blur of distraction, I wasn’t fully up on current pop culture at the time the way I was in the 70s and 90s, and so the 80s revival has never really f…

"The Legend of Ochi" and "Pilot" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4sUIlLq
@A24HPS
#オチ
@pilot_movie_jp
#PILOT人生のリフライト

Review: The Bride! and Anaconda It seems unfair that The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s original take on Mary Shelley’s novel, is released within spitting distance of Guillermo del Toro’s more faithful version, esp…

"The Bride!" and "Anaconda" open tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/48cebLh #ザ・ブライド #俺たちのアナコンダ

Review: Sound of Falling and Hallan Multigenerational stories that focus on an extended lineage are usually called epics, a term that could apply to Mascha Schilinski’s second feature, Sound of Falling, except that the unifying…

"Sound of Falling" and "Hallan" open Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/4dmOniZ
@noroshi_gaga
#落下音
@hallan_film
#済州島四・三事件ハラン

The Option of Adoption Young and in the way

Masako's Story 15: In Showa Japan, when 2 can't afford to live as 1, 1 has to go. bit.ly/413S2ek #昭和

Review: Chain Reactions Documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe has made a tidy living out of studying scary movies, having already put The Exorcist, Psycho, and Alien under the microscope. This 2024 feature takes on …

"Chain Reactions" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4bDLoBF
@extreme_film
#チェイン・リアクションズ

Review: Young Mothers The Belgian filmmaking brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, extend their usually focused attention on a single troubled individual in their realistic style to take in a quartet of teenage mother…

"Young Mothers" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4twi8mv
@Dardenne_cinema
#そして彼女たちは

So I assume that means higher interest rates?

Lease on life An image of the residence described in the Asahi article located in the Koishikawa area of Tokyo Though home prices in Tokyo occasionally drop temporarily, in general they now remain pretty much ou…

Tokyo condo developers return to the (rented) land. bit.ly/3Pw6J7u #定期借地権付きマンション

Review: The Thing With Feathers It’s been difficult to take the famous title epigram, adapted from a poem by Emily Dickinson, seriously ever since Woody Allen had fun with it in one of his New Yorker humor pieces. For Dicki…

"The Thing With Feathers" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/3PuhUgR
@feathers0327
#フェザーズその家に巣食うもの

Survival games Making efforts for what?

Masako's Story 14: Don't go into the toilet, or how to survive poverty in 1960s Japan with your sanity in tact. bit.ly/3PpuH46 #昭和

Survival games Making efforts for what?

Masako's Story 14: Don't go into the toilet, or how to survive poverty in 1960s Japan with your sanity in tact. bit.ly/3PpuH46 #昭和

Review: What Does That Nature Say to You One of the most common figures of romantic stories down through the ages is the unreliable artist-lover. Extrapolated into narratives, such characters often end up being secondary to the protagonis…

"What Does That Nature Say to You" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/3NEnOeB
@hongsangsoo_JP
#自然は君に何を語るのか

Review: Project Hail Mary and Jules According to reports, Andy Weir, the author of the novel Project Hail Mary, did deep research into the science behind the story’s science fiction, in particular the viability of the sun-consu…

"Project Hail Mary" and "Jules" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4d4f2RH
@ProjectHM_movie
#プロジェクト・ヘイル・メアリー
@cominghome_2026
#カミング・ホーム

Review: Small Things Like These and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain According to Tim Mielant’s drama Small Things Like These, based on a novel by Claire Keegan, Ireland in the mid-1980s was stuck in a time warp. By the end of the decade the country would be e…

"Small Things Like These" and "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain" open tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4sty4ph
@ketsudanjp
#決断するとき
@ameliejp_2025
#アメリと雨の物語

Review: Marty Supreme It feels more like providence than serendipity to note that the recently sundered Safdie Brothers filmmaking team has now produced two movies about real-life sports figures whose forceful personali…

"Marty Supreme" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/3NAxI0P
@martysupreme_jp
#マーティ・シュプリーム世界をつかめ

A brief history of stateless children in Okinawa. bit.ly/4blOGb8 #沖縄の無国籍児