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<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Hello Jasper.</div><div>The website has been down for at least over a week now.</div><div>Some people were wondering in X too.</div><div>I seriously hope it is not going to disappear.</div><div>What would we do without it!</div><div>Despite its inaccuracies, the resource, as you mention, is invaluable and unparalleled.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>María José González Muñoz</div><div>Kwansei Gakuin University</div>
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On Tuesday, 14 October 2025 at 08:39:23 PM GMT+9, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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Is anyone else having issues with accessing the invaluable Japanese Movie Database (<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" id="yiv0207840104LPlnk631995" target="_blank" href="http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/">http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/</a>)?</div>
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The site seems to have been down since last week. I know it's not really been updated since 2004, but could this be the end of it for good?</div>
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Jasper Sharp</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><b><i><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" id="yiv0207840104OWA5a1dec3c-a47b-6379-67e8-530d4b4354b4" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank" href="http://www.creepinggarden.com/" class="yiv0207840104OWAAutoLink">The Creeping Garden</a></i></b></span><i> </i>- A Real-Life
Science-Fiction Story about Slime Moulds and the People Who Work With them, directed by Tim Grabham and Jasper Sharp. </div>
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Available now on Dual-Format Blu-ray/DVD from <span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">
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Films</a></span>.</div>
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The book, <i>The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds
</i>is out now from <span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" id="yiv0207840104OWA2c1e00d7-69f4-e09a-5cca-54341f2328dc" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank" href="http://www.alchimiapublishing.com/creeping-garden/" class="yiv0207840104OWAAutoLink">Alchimia Publishing</a></span>.</div>
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"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold,
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New York Times</a></i></span>.</div>
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"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, <span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">
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"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, <span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">
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