This post is probably relevant to a limited number of people but those who are based in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne or Canberra might find it interesting.

In those cities, in coming days, 16th Japanese Film Festival is on.

http://japanesefilmfestival.net/index.html

this is probably offtopic, but i'm looking at films program and wondering what happened to japanese cinema in the last few years(last decade?). there's maybe one movie that i would like to see from that list that's filled with generic and tired formulas.

i see that miwa nishikawa will be a festival guest. her debut, 'wild berries', was pretty good.

Wings of Kirin was pretty good.