japan cinema listings

[sharon hayashi]

Thanks for the post on community cinema, Markus.  I always wondered how 
places like the Kochi Prefectural Museum were able to offer such 
impressive selections of film.   I have to admit that I've never found 
it difficult to find good films to see outside of Tokyo while traveling 
through Japan.  There always seems to be at least one good mini-theater 
in town or creative programmers at larger theater chains. Of course, 
I'm thinking very selectively of places like Nagoya which has the 
Nagoya Cinematheque and Cinema Skhole, Osaka, Fukuoka and Kyoto. I 
wonder if there is an online listing of mini-theaters and 
non-theatrical exhibition spaces across the country somewhere? Or if 
the Japan Community Cinema Center (http://www.jc3.jp/) is planning to 
create one?

As Michael mentioned the easiest way to get a sense of what's playing 
in Tokyo is to graze the stacks of film flyers at theaters.  There are, 
of course, a plethora of websites listing films that are playing, but 
it's often easier to determine which theaters regularly play films of 
your liking and to go directly to the individual theater's site for a 
complete list of the program esp. for info about late shows and 
all-nighters. And analog Pia is always a good resource. Below is a 
brief and very incomplete list of the flyers of retrospectives of 
Japanese cinema that I happen to have on hand.  Perhaps a list of links 
to film theaters could be added to the KineJapan website? Or to 
Midnight Eye?

Cheers,
Sharon

http://www.athenee.net/culturalcenter/
Athenee Francais in Suidobashi just finished a series of pink films and 
is currently showing Yamagata in Tokyo 2004.

http://www.mmjp.or.jp/pole2/
Pole-Pole Higashi Nakano is featuring a Yoshida Kiju retrospective 
until Oct 1

http://www.cinemabox.com
Gives access to several theaters including Ginza Teatoru Cinema which 
is doing an all-nighter of Wakao Ayako films Sept 18
and Teatoru Ikebukuro which did a Kuroki Kazuo retrospective in August.

http://www.shin-bungeiza.com
Shin Bungeiza has been running an Edogawa Ranpo film festival and 
all-nighters.

http://www.cinequinto.com
Cinequinto in Shibuya Parco Part 3 is doing an all-nighter of late 70s 
and mid 80s Roman Porno on Sept 18

http://www.laputa-jp.com/laputa/main/
Laputa Asagaya currently showing a Kyo Machiko series and an Off Beat 
Jazz series

http://www2.odn.ne.jp/10point/kawa.html
Includes info on theaters such as Ginza Cine Pathos which is currently 
doing a late night show retrospective of Wakamatsu Koji films from 
1965-69.

http://www.momat.go.jp/FC/fc.html
National Film Center in Kyobashi currently running a Takamine Hideko 
series

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~darts/movie/pagejmovie02.html
Sanbyakunin gekijo just finished showing a Shibuya Minoru and Maeda 
Yoichi special

http://home.catv.ne.jp/hh/kcm/
Kawasaki City Museum often has excellent series

http://www.eurospace.co.jp/schedule.htm
Eurospace



On 2004/09/17, at 19:45, Fergus MacDermot wrote:

>
> Are there any cinema/location searches in Japan?
>
> I ask this because I did a cinema search for FilmFour a few years back 
> and in the UK there is an xml feed which gives details of all films at 
> all cinemas. I wonder if something like that is available in Japan.
>
> Failing that, it would be possible to scrape the sites that do provide 
> listings to produce a definitive list. If you post the links of the 
> sites you are talking about I could have a look at the feasability of 
> this.
>
> Fergus
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