News Digest November 30 to December 4

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poster for 10th Tokyo Filmex

10th Tokyo Filmex

at Yurakucho Asahi Hall
in the Ginza, Shimbashi area
This event has ended - (2009-11-21 - 2009-11-29)

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In In the News by William Andrews 2009-12-05 print

Events

Today (Saturday, December 5) sees a free dance performance at Spiral by Makoto Enda and Maki Morishita, among others. It starts at 14:00. See Enda’s website for more.

And the winner is…

RISA PARTNERS have announced the winners of the competition we previously wrote about in the news.

Yang Ik-june’s “Breathless” (Ddongpari) was awarded the grand prize, $11,560 (1 million yen) and the audience award at the tenth Tokyo Filmex. For more information, see this Screen Daily article by Jason Gray.

Obituary

Famed Nihonga painter Ikuo Hirayama died this week, aged seventy-nine.

New goodies

And finally, two new products have poured into the TAB Shop!

TAB Shop New Product:
(^_^)365(O_O) Hello San-Roku-Go by JAGDA
¥2,520

Designed by 365 graphic designers active all over Japan. Each designer handled one “day” of the calendar. Each “day” was created using a unique printing process and paper stock, making this calendar a true collectible item.

TAB Shop New Product:
Tokyo Realtime Kabukicho by White Rabbit Press
¥2,520

An audio guided tour through Shinjuku’s notorious sin district.

William Andrews

William Andrews. William Andrews came to Japan in 2004, around the same time Tokyo Art Beat launched. Sadly, these two events, though equal in their significance for Japan, remained unconnected for some years. Meanwhile William lived in Osaka, working as a translator for Kansai Art Beat. He came to Tokyo in 2008 and, when not exploring art galleries, can often be found in the city's theatres. By day (and night) he does market research for a Tokyo-based trend agency, but somehow finds time to write occasionally on the performing arts for The Japan Times, CNNgo, and on his very irregular blog about Tokyo contemporary theatre: www.tokyostages.wordpress.com » See other writings

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