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Three Films About Tokyo: 3: The Ramen Girl
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— 2 Nov 2009 Pete Baran 4 comments

I was in Tokyo in 2002 for a week. I left the day before the World Cup started. If there was ever a point that Japan was geared up to deal with foreigner visitors, it was that week. And whilst the script was incomprehensible to me, and I spoke about […]

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Three Films About Tokyo: 2: Air Doll
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— 1 Nov 2009 Pete Baran 1 comment

Whilst I hate answering the question “what is your favourite movie”, there is a fair chance that if you ask me, and I give you an answer, it will be After-Life directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Ten years old now its a terrific fantasy about […]

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Three Films About Tokyo: 1: Tokyo Gore Police
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— 31 Oct 2009 Pete Baran 1 comment

I saw three films last week set in Tokyo. None of them, not even the one with the city in the title, would claim to be about Tokyo, but they ended up creating a triptych of Tokyo which, more than any individual film, reminded me of that crazy city. A[…]

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