Tom Mes
@midnightmes
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Writes and talks about Japanese movies a lot. New book JAPANESE FILM AND THE CHALLENGE OF VIDEO out now.
Joined November 2013
I guess this makes them both officially out of print and I can start thinking about new editions. .
Not sure exactly when , but seems @ArrowFilmsVideo have completely removed all book listings from their website. If you've not picked up a copy of their excellent 'Father, Son, Sword - The Lone Wolf And Cub Saga' .book written by @midnightmes with glorious cover art from
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This was Radiance's biggest project yet, taking the whole of this year and a production tag team of Francesco Simeoni and myself, but the result is a big box full of peak-period Oshima.
UK: Considered one of the most vital and celebrated bodies of work in cinema history, RADICAL JAPAN: CINEMA AND STATE presents 9 films by the great Nagisa Oshima over 7 discs. This world premiere release showcases 7 features, an experimental short and the filmmaker’s 1995 doc.
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Thanks a lot!.
@midnightmes Hello, Mr. Tom.I am a fan from China, I love your reviews of Japanese movies, I got this V-cinema book you wrote from Amazon, it is a very good book.I also translated an article introducing your book on the Chinese Douban website, I hope you like it!
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Radiance is coming to haunt you this Halloween with Volume 2 of DAIEI GOTHIC.
UK/US: Three classic Japanese ghost stories are newly restored in 4K by us for our second volume of DAIEI GOTHIC. Each release comes with new appreciations and context, as well as a 80-page perfect bound book featuring, among others, original prose ghost stories.
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RT @FilmsRadiance: Our June releases are out now! Including a provocative American portrait of girlhood (in UHD), an affecting docu-drama c….
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Midori and I had the honour of interviewing the legendary Tadanori Yokoo at his studio for an upcoming Radiance release. .
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Fans of film noir in particular should run not walk to get this set!.
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With a slew of 4K restorations, at last the rediscovery of Takashi Ishii, one of Japan's most fascinating writer-directors. His films are ultra-stylish, challenging, gorgeous, beguiling, frightful, unsavoury, and exciting all at once.
Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami.A 4 disc box set of films from the late director, made between 1992-1994. All feature new HD masters in a L.E. digipack (2000 units) w/booklet @jaspersharp & loads of bonus features. Out August 25.Order @Terracotta_Dist.
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Really happy with all these enthusiastic responses to the Arrow V-Cinema set. I haven't had confirmation, but I too hope there's more coming!.
Dear @ArrowFilmsVideo and @midnightmes - more V-Cinema please. The Bullets and Betrayal boxset was superb and the inclusion of Masaki Tanioka’s introduction to each movie helps to get into that V-Cinema groove. A+++
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In addition to my commentary, I also contribute a visual essay on director Tokuzo Tanaka. As more of his films become available in remastered editions, I thought I'd kick off what will hopefully be a reappraisal of this former assistant to Kurosawa and Mizoguchi.
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My latest production for @FilmsRadiance is one of the underrated greats of 1960s chanbara.
UK/US: An underappreciated great of Samurai cinema, an honourable swordsman finds himself framed, exiled and hunted in the breathtaking THE BETRAYAL. This world Blu-ray premiere includes select-scene commentary by @midnightmes and a visual essay by Philip Kemp.
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Happy 20th anniversary @thirdwindow ! You've done trailblazing work in expanding the horizon of Japanese film releasing. Here's to many more!
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RT @thirdwindow: Gakuryu Ishii's adaptation of Kobo Abe's legendary novel THE BOX MAN 箱男 is out in 1 month time, on June 30!!.To get you re….
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A high-profile lawyer tweeting about today's Sion Sono press conference mistyped the director's name 園子温 as 園子 - Sonoko, a fairly common girl's name. Not surprisingly, it's already taking on a life of its own
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The gist of today's Sion Sono press conference: "It's all lies. I'm the only victim here.".Reporter: "But a judge acknowledged your sexual improprieties as fact.".Sono: "That was just an afterword to the real verdict. It doesn't count.".
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A few days ago, the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan announced Sono would hold a press conference about "Fighting back against accusations of sexual impropriety" - sexual impropriety now established as fact in a court of law.
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Also from the verdict: "it is considered to be true that the plaintiff (Sono Sion) made sexual advances on Chiba Milla" - something Sono had repeatedly claimed was a lie, including in the now deleted Asian Movie Pulse interview from several months ago.
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Sono also demanded an apology, which the judge deemed unnecessary, and the original compensation demanded by Sono was around $75,000, a multitude of what he was awarded. Sono also has to pay 80% of the trial fees.
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the judgment also concludes that Sono had a pattern of sending "messages requesting sexual acts to multiple actresses when their position as a director and new actress were clear".
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Verdict came in today in the civil suit by Sion Sono against actor/influencer Yuki Matsuzaki, who tweeted about the director's alleged sexual misconduct in 2022. Matsuzaki was ordered to pay a small fine (roughly $1500) and delete the tweet, but. (thread).
I’ve just received the full ruling in the civil defamation lawsuit filed against me (Yuki Matsuzaki) by filmmaker Sion Sono. And… I must say, I am very pleased with the outcome. Key Points from the Ruling:.1) The truthfulness of my tweet could not be fully proven. Therefore, I.
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