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I havent been to the last Nippon Connection a year ago but I’m glad I was able to check it out this year, while there I took some photos and did a little vlog for my youtube channel.
The Nippon Connection is the biggest Japanese filmfestival in Germany specializing in showing some of the movies from Japan, that usually dont get the big cinema releases.
It also trys to offer independent filmmakers from Japan a platform in Germany / Europe. Its not a huge filmfestival but it certainly got its charme, though I must say
that theres a few things to improve that havent improved over the years this festival has been held in Frankfurt.
I wasnt checking out any movie that day but I’m going to check out the liveaction movie Gantz on Saturday and I’m actually looking forward to see how they adapted the anime/manga.

Heres a few photos and my youtube vlog embedded below.

Chris / @chrishimself84

I went out yesterday to watch Kitanos 15th and newest film called “Outrage” at the Fantasy Filmfest in Frankfurt am Main.
The movie was a solid yakuza flick, sometimes it had points where it was tough to follow the characters and probably its not the best of the Kitano movies but I was still able to enjoy it.

All I can say is that if you are a fan of Takeshi Kitano and Yakuza movies go ahead and rent or buy the DVD (I’m not sure if this will get a regular cinema release in Germany).

Heres the official trailer.

Check out the filmfestivals schedule right here.
The Fantasy Filmfest will be in Frankfurt am Main until the 1st of September and will continue in Stuttgart.

They had this billboard up on the wall and people could write shoutouts or a quick opinion about the movie onto it.

I thought this one right here was quite funny.

Afterwards we went to chill out at a bar a little bit, well good luck with that on a sunday in Frankfurt.

We ended up at the McCafe and I tried out their frappes which, suprisingly, is good. I usually just go for the normal coffee or cappucino.

Seems like the whole city got ready for movies and filmmaking.

Wanna look like some wannabe Clark Kent with a plastic camera? There you go!.

Thats it for todays post, let me know what you would like to watch from the list on the Fantasy Filmfest website.

peace
Chris (@chrishimself84)

I’ve been to the Rock ‘n Shop sale today at Alter Offenbacher Schlachthof (the Old Offenbacher Slaughterhouse), where you’ll get special deals on some nice clothes, shoes and accessories by many brands including The Hundreds, Sixpack France, Nudie, Superdry, Adidas, Nike and many many more. It’s still running tomorrow (Saturday, 17th April) from 12:00 until 20:00 at this location:

Achat Plaza Hotel, Ernst-Griesheimer-Platz 6, Offenbach

By the way, thanks to Adrian from Freiraum Frankfurt for having a cool talk in between.

And there’s also the 10th Nippon Connection going on until Sunday. It’s the largest festival for Japanese cinema outside of Japan. Chrishimself already posted about it last year. Alreadyyy. It was the first time, I went there today as well. Besides the red carpet and the movies, …

…you also have the chance to just hang out, …

… to buy some mangas, …

… to grab some Japanese food …

… or play some old school games.

Check the website for all screenings and locations.

Andi / @IAMGANDINO

Just got back from Tokyo yesterday, been looking through my footage for my little 25min documentary about popculture in Japan that I’m aiming to submit to the next Nippon Connection Filmfestival in 2010.

Because I’m also going back to work and going to spend some time editing I might not be able to post as regularly as before but I’ll try to update the blog at least once a week.

As a little treat I keep making these “mini VLOGs” from Tokyo here’s the latest one from a random hiphop festival in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo.

I think it was called BBoy Park 2009 but not sure though since we just stumbled accross it looking for a streetball tournament.

Actually making these mini-vlogs is quite fun and doesnt really take as much time to make since I just paste them together haha ;-) but if this actually gets some good feedback I might consider making more of them, not only from Tokyo but maybe some stuff thats going on in Germany.

cheers,

Chris

Nippon Connection 2009 is over and I got around to watch 5 films this year compared to the last two times I attended Nippon Connection thats 5 more hehe.  Here are a few pictures of this years NC.

Make sure to check out “Locked Out” a japanese road movie directed by Yasunobu Takahashi which I was glad to meet during this years Nippon Connection.  Check out the website!

People waiting in line to watch “Locked Out”.

Food was also taken care of, all sorts of japanase dishes availible I liked the curry rice they had.

There was a Sake workshop where you could try out different kinds of Sake and learn about the process and what makes a good Sake good! I almost liked them all, big fan of Sake now hehe.  Make sure to check out our local Sake supplier if you live in the Rhein/Main area of Germany.  Heres the link.

Hello Kitty representing too hehe.

There was a nice lounge and chill out area where you could just hang out and play a few video games.

Filmmaker gatherings at Nippon Connection the topic was “japanese women in the film industry” made me think of one of my japanase classmates in filmschool, she also did a great job directing, maybe the next big movies out of Japan are made by women hehe.

Well if you have been to this years Nippon Connection I really hope you enjoyed it and most of the movies,  I mostly enjoyed Detroit Metal City (live action) which also won the Nippon Cinema Award this year. If you want to attend next year please check the official website and I hope to see you there next year!.

peace!

Chrishimself