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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Looks like Archive.org has a snapshot of it from August.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250810080623/http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20250810080623/http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/</a></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hopefully that helps, at least!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-Richard</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 08:06:49 AM PDT, Jasper Sharp via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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Thanks for your reply Maria.</div>
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It would indeed be a disaster if the site were to disappear. I've been using it more or less daily for the past 25 years.</div>
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I wonder if there's a way of salvaging the data and preserving it as part of another site to avoid any possible loss in the future.</div>
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It is such an essential resource.</div>
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<a shape="rect" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);" title="https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435 Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link" href="https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arrow Films</a></span>.</div>
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The book, <i>The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds
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"A surprising investigation of perception, thought and life itself", Nicolas Rapold,
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"An out-of-left-field nerdy delight", John DeFore, <span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">
<i><a shape="rect" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hollywood Reporter</a></i></span>.</div>
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"Strange, eccentric, diverting", Peter Bradshaw, <span style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [KineJapan] Japanese Movie Database</font>
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<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>
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<div>María José González Muñoz</div>
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<div>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 shape="rect" id="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104LPlnk631995" href="http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">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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<span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);"><b><i><a shape="rect" id="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104OWA5a1dec3c-a47b-6379-67e8-530d4b4354b4" href="http://www.creepinggarden.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" class="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">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);">
<a shape="rect" id="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104OWA1067c08b-ca89-1fa9-76c9-278cbb8ecbfc" title="https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link" href="https://arrowfilms.com/product-detail/the-creeping-garden-dual-format/FCD1435" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" class="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arrow
Films</a></span>.</div>
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The book, <i>The Creeping Garden: Irrational Encounters with Plasmodial Slime Moulds
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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);">
<i><a shape="rect" id="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104OWA725f212e-cbfd-1e19-99b2-f950d692db63" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/creeping-garden-fantasia-review-724416" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);" class="ydp5938c8c9yiv5929725100x_yiv0207840104OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hollywood
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Guardian</a></i></span>.</div>
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