This wicked new Chusei Sone double-bill from @thirdwindowfilms.com - Blow the Night & Scars of the Sun - features my new video essay on juvenile delinquency, biker gangs and punk music in '80s Japan on disc 1. Had such a great time working on this! Out July 27th: thirdwindowfilms.com/films/scars-...

I'm back at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social on Aug 4th to introduce two of my favourite Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: Iron Man) films w/ @thirdwindowfilms.com! Come see GEMINI and KILLING: thenickel.co.uk

Wow, what a great reminder to revisit the classic that is 'Amores Perros' for first time since my university Film Studies course...! Thanks MUBI, see you on July 10th!

What a privilege to be invited to appear on @nhk-news.bsky.social (the Japanese BBC) this month to discuss the newfound popularity of Masayoshi Takanaka in the West and the wider explosion of interest in '70s and '80s Japanese pop music! 🎸 Check out the full featurette via NHK!

Our new Swim Deep album 'Hum' is out this weekend! Recommended in @theguardian.com today; 9/10 - NME; 9/10 - @indieisnotagenre.com; 8/10 - @readdork.com; Go stream/buy it!

Thanks @umbrellaent.bsky.social for these contributor copies of the ‘Uzumaki’ and ‘The Elusive Kinji Fukasaku’ box sets! Find my Junji Ito essay in the accompanying booklet for the former & my video essay on Fukasaku’s revolutionary crime cinema on disc 1 of the latter 🌀 >>> umbrellaent.com.au

Completing a Japanese juvenile delinquency double-bill at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social on Monday, May 18th: Nobuhiko Obayashi (Hausu)’s HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND plays at 20:15 via @thirdwindowfilms.com Tix: thenickel.co.uk/screening/352

Can’t wait to screen one of my favourite opening shots of all-time at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social next week! Toshiaki Toyoda (Blue Spring)’s PORNOSTAR plays at 18:00 on Monday, May 18th via @thirdwindowfilms.com. Tix: thenickel.co.uk/screening/351

At Far East Film Festival, Udine.

I’m introducing a rare Toshiaki Toyoda double bill at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social this Easter Monday w/ @thirdwindowfilms.com! If you’re in London, join us for two of my fav Y2K Japanese films: 18:00 - Blue Spring thenickel.co.uk/screening/245 20:15 - Nine Souls thenickel.co.uk/screening/246

One week today I’ll be introducing a double-bill of @thirdwindowfilms.com Nobuhiko Obayashi classics at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social ! Come down on March 3 for School in the Crosshairs and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ✨ TIX: thenickel.co.uk

Spotted in the wild at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin: the new @thirdwindowfilms.com ‘Angel Guts’ box set featuring my video essay on the series on disc 2 ✨

TONIGHT AT @thenickelcinema.bsky.social - a Shinya Tsukamoto double-bill (pt. 2)! 20:30 TOKYO FIST TICKETS: ticketlab.app/event/36311#/ @thirdwindowfilms.com

TONIGHT AT @thenickelcinema.bsky.social - a Shinya Tsukamoto double-bill! 18:30 A SNAKE OF JUNE TICKETS: ticketlab.app/event/36310 @thirdwindowfilms.com

Had such a great time at the first-ever ‘Admit Two’ speed-dating event at Anomalous Space in Angel - where movie lovers let their @letterboxd.social top fours do the matchmaking. Read how it all went over at @timeout-london-rss.bsky.social ! www.timeout.com/london/news/...

Very excited to be presenting a rare @thirdwindowfilms.com double bill of Shinya Tsukamoto classics at London’s @thenickelcinema.bsky.social on Dec 4th! Hit the ticket links below for TOKYO FIST and A SNAKE OF JUNE! ticketlab.app/event/36310 ticketlab.app/event/36311#/

18:00 TONIGHT at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social - CRAZY THUNDER ROAD! Last tickets here: ticketlab.app/event/35818 @thirdwindowfilms.com

I’m introducing 2x Sogo Ishii punk classics - ‘Crazy Thunder Road’ & ‘The Crazy Family’ - at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social this Wed (Nov 19). Tix via link in comments below! More Ishii over at @thirdwindowfilms.com !!

Buzzing to announce our latest Swim Deep shows in Thailand and China! See you in December 🤩

TOMORROW I’ll be introducing a double bill of Kaizo Hayashi sublime ‘Maiku Hama’ ‘90s neo-noir classics at @thenickelcinema.bsky.social to mark the release of @thirdwindowfilms.com, stunning new box set. Ticket links below!

Proud to be a part of this very exciting release of the Maiku Hama trilogy, directed by Kaizo Hayashi, via @thirdwindowfilms.com next month! Find my video essay on the great actor Masatoshi Nagase on disc 3 🤩 thirdwindowfilms.com/films/maiku-...

I’ve got a big feature in the new @crackmagazine.bsky.social exploring how Japan’s ‘80s ambient & environmental music has found new relevance in a present-day world descending into unchecked chaos. Interviews w/ icons Inoyamaland, Takashi Kokubo & Yumiko Morioka! @tonalunion.bsky.social

Very proud to share some new work this month via a pair of video essays included on the @thirdwindowfilms.com and @arrowvideo.bsky.social releases of ‘Tokyo Pop’ and ‘V-Cinema Essentials’. Great films, great releases - out in May!

Japan swag

I’ve nabbed the cover of the Sunday @telegraphnews.bsky.social’s Arts & Books section today, with an article marking 30 years of the Tokyo sarin attack as a new, Sundance-approved documentary hits US theatres (and streaming platforms in a few weeks): www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/the-...

V-proud to have contributed to this incredible new V-Cinema box set from @arrowvideo.bsky.social! You can find my video essay ‘The Road to V-Cinema’ on the Danger Point: The Road to Hell disc ⭐️

Some cool Wong Kar-wai/Christopher Doyle/Wing Shya finds at a private archive in Burbank today

Hello I'm in @cityam.bsky.social magazine this week, talking to the people keeping the niche art of food replica models alive today! Check out the link below for the article and go visit the 'Looks Delicious' exhibition at Japan House until Feb. www.cityam.com/the-magazine/

What a great package to arrive home to after living in Ireland for the past month… thanks for sharing these @thirdwindow.bsky.social. You can find my video essay on composer Toshiyuki Honda on the Mermaid Legend disc!

RT: Very proud to share ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' with the world! Matthew Lawrenson and I were the music supervisors for this amazing film. Huge thanks to Warner Bros, producers Tommy Harper and Natalie Testa, all the artists and rightsholders, and of course Tim Burton. Enjoy!