The Beatles’ songs from A to Z are a study of how the band changed the course of pop music. The songwriting, melodies, instrumentals, and recording technqiues established the band as among the most influential in music history. But for all their success, The Beatles remained active for a relatively short period of time.
In 10 years, The Beatles released 14 albums in what’s considered their core catalog. It includes just over 200 songs from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Some are much more memorable than others, but every Beatles song from A to Z has its own story and interesting facts to keep listeners entertained even when the music stops.
Beatles songs starting with ‘A’ “Across the Universe” The song holds a Guinness World Record that involves outer space. “Act Naturally” It replaced a “weird” Ringo Starr song initially meant for the album. “All I’ve Got...
In 10 years, The Beatles released 14 albums in what’s considered their core catalog. It includes just over 200 songs from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Some are much more memorable than others, but every Beatles song from A to Z has its own story and interesting facts to keep listeners entertained even when the music stops.
Beatles songs starting with ‘A’ “Across the Universe” The song holds a Guinness World Record that involves outer space. “Act Naturally” It replaced a “weird” Ringo Starr song initially meant for the album. “All I’ve Got...
- 2/26/2024
- by Matt Moore
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Back in 2019 when life was still normal, Sho Miyake came to Berlin with his love drama “And Your Bird Can Sing” that screened in the Panorama section to critical acclaim. The film was praised for many things including its dreamy photography but then again – Hidetoshi Shinomiya was behind it, the same cinematographer who gave the extra touch to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-nominated drama “Drive My Car”.
Although primarily known for his live-action movies, Sho Miyake was always interested in documentary filmmaking.There was “Cockpit” (2015), a film about rapper Omsb creating a new song with his friends followed by the documentary ”Experience in Material No. 58 / A Return Of Bruno Taut 2016” about the architect Ryoji Suzuki and his body of work, which they co-directed together. The love for documentaries is very visible in his latest title “Small, Slow but Steady”, a film based on the life of the former boxing champion Keiko Ogasawara who was born deaf,...
Although primarily known for his live-action movies, Sho Miyake was always interested in documentary filmmaking.There was “Cockpit” (2015), a film about rapper Omsb creating a new song with his friends followed by the documentary ”Experience in Material No. 58 / A Return Of Bruno Taut 2016” about the architect Ryoji Suzuki and his body of work, which they co-directed together. The love for documentaries is very visible in his latest title “Small, Slow but Steady”, a film based on the life of the former boxing champion Keiko Ogasawara who was born deaf,...
- 2/25/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Japanese are known for their politeness. Don’t lose your face, don’t speak out, assimilate. Character straits and stereotypes that have been promoted ever since. Kamakura born filmmaker Ryutaro Ninomiya (“The Charm of Others” 2012) breaks with that tradition and presents a radical statement in his third feature “Minori, On The Brink”.
“Minori, On The Brink” is screening at Nippon Connection 2020
Can Minori avoid a nervous breakdown? All the people surrounding her, refuse to express their feelings and emotional boundaries. The resulting everyday life is characterized by ruthlessness: Even friends reduce each other to their appearance and shamelessly take advantage of each other. Minori runs against this by attacking ignorance whenever she encounters it, whatever the consequences might be.
Ryutaro Ninomiya is one of the most radical young voices in Japanese cinema. With “Minori, On The Brink”, he takes a resolute and inventive stand against the cinema of complacency and against social stagnation.
“Minori, On The Brink” is screening at Nippon Connection 2020
Can Minori avoid a nervous breakdown? All the people surrounding her, refuse to express their feelings and emotional boundaries. The resulting everyday life is characterized by ruthlessness: Even friends reduce each other to their appearance and shamelessly take advantage of each other. Minori runs against this by attacking ignorance whenever she encounters it, whatever the consequences might be.
Ryutaro Ninomiya is one of the most radical young voices in Japanese cinema. With “Minori, On The Brink”, he takes a resolute and inventive stand against the cinema of complacency and against social stagnation.
- 6/12/2020
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns from January 2020 with a theme of “Happiness is A State of Mind: Joy and Despair in Japanese Cinema”, touring 22 cities nationwide. From contemporary dramas to anime and classics, it is the largest of its kind focusing on Japanese cinema in the UK.
Happiness is a staple theme in Japanese cinema and it is within its framework that the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2020 has been curated, showcasing diverse cinematic voices which explore the highs and lows experienced in pursuit of happiness.
Embracing the rich and complex spectrum of emotions that go hand in hand with this concept, the programme presents a comprehensive line-up of unique films which shine a light on the best Japanese cinema has to offer, from critically acclaimed documentary I Go Gaga, My Dear which explores the realities of geriatric care in Japan’s aging society, to Kon Ichikawa’s...
Happiness is a staple theme in Japanese cinema and it is within its framework that the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2020 has been curated, showcasing diverse cinematic voices which explore the highs and lows experienced in pursuit of happiness.
Embracing the rich and complex spectrum of emotions that go hand in hand with this concept, the programme presents a comprehensive line-up of unique films which shine a light on the best Japanese cinema has to offer, from critically acclaimed documentary I Go Gaga, My Dear which explores the realities of geriatric care in Japan’s aging society, to Kon Ichikawa’s...
- 1/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
New films by Anthony Chen, Heiward Mak and Kongdej Jaturanrasmee in New Asian Cinema competition. You are invited to the presentation of the full programme on 24 October!
Heartwarming “Fagara”, bitter-sweet “To Live to Sing”, subtle “Wet Season” and lyrical “Where We Belong” together with challenging “Heavy Craving” complete the list of films to be presented in the New Asian Cinema competition. As every year, the Five Flavours viewers will receive a perfect mixture of sincere emotions, affecting topics and interesting formal choices – so that each screening became an unforgettable experience.
The main award will be granted by People’s Jury – a group of amateurs and semi-professionals whose sincere love of cinema and Asia combined with advanced journalistic skills allow them to make competent assessment of the competition films and choose the winner of the Festival.
Presentation of the programme
On 24 October at 4.15 p.m. viewers and journalists are invited to...
Heartwarming “Fagara”, bitter-sweet “To Live to Sing”, subtle “Wet Season” and lyrical “Where We Belong” together with challenging “Heavy Craving” complete the list of films to be presented in the New Asian Cinema competition. As every year, the Five Flavours viewers will receive a perfect mixture of sincere emotions, affecting topics and interesting formal choices – so that each screening became an unforgettable experience.
The main award will be granted by People’s Jury – a group of amateurs and semi-professionals whose sincere love of cinema and Asia combined with advanced journalistic skills allow them to make competent assessment of the competition films and choose the winner of the Festival.
Presentation of the programme
On 24 October at 4.15 p.m. viewers and journalists are invited to...
- 10/17/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Beginning 2000s, director Akihiko Shiota emerged as part of a new wave of Japanese filmmakers portraying teenage alienation in postmodern Japan. Like many other famous directors of his generation, Shiota was a student of Shigehiko Hasumi at Tokyo Film School. Though less prolific than his former classmates Shinji Aoyama (“Eureka” 2000) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Cure” 1997), Shiota produced impressive movies such as “Moonlight Whispers” (1999), “Harmful Insect” (2001) and “Canary” (2004), which all deal with young outcasts and a lack of parental presence. In the course of his career, Shiota shifted his focus from serious indie dramas to sentimental commercial productions and effect-filled entertainment (“Dororo” 2007). He finally ended up in the genre of medical drama with the TBS tearjerker “I Just Wanna Hug You” (2014). What may look like a decline of artistic demand, is proven wrong by Shiota’s newest film “Farewell Song” (2019).
“Farewell Song” was screened on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna.
Although Shiota...
“Farewell Song” was screened on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna.
Although Shiota...
- 10/15/2019
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
And Your Bird Can SingNorth America’s premier program of contemporary Japanese cinema returns this week as the Japan Society’s thirteenth annual Japan Cuts series comes to New York City. This year’s program includes 26 feature films, almost entirely by young filmmakers and/or directors largely unfamiliar in the West. I caught about a third of the series this year: dramas about alienated urban youth And Your Bird Can Sing, Blue Hour, and Demolition Girl; Francophile comedy Jeux de plage; a pair of social problem films in the throwback comedy The Kamagasaki Caudron War and the tastefully bland The Journalist; an unclassifiable avant-garde musical relic of the 1980s, Legend of the Stardust Brothers; and a pair of films by this year’s Cut Above award winner Shinya Tsukamoto, Killing and Bullet Ballet. The urban youth film is always reliable festival territory, and some of the best films to come...
- 7/17/2019
- MUBI
Netflix unveiled its lineup of original programming from Japan. It includes major local and international names.
Among the most highly anticipated entries is “Ai-naki Mori de Sakebe” (literal translation: Shout in the Loveless Forest), a three-part series inspired by a real multiple murder case set to stream this summer. The director is international cult favorite Sion Sono who suffered a heart attack and underwent an operation in February. “It was all my fault,” Sono told media at an event in Tokyo on Tuesday. “I was really busy with editing. I feel I should pay Netflix compensation.”
Scheduled to begin streaming on Aug. 8 to 190 countries and territories is “The Naked Director,” a series based on the career of real-life porn director Toru Muranishi. Playing Muranishi, who pioneered the adult video genre in the 1980s, is Takayuki Yamada, a favorite of Takashi Miike and the star of the popular “Uchijima the Loan Shark” series.
Among the most highly anticipated entries is “Ai-naki Mori de Sakebe” (literal translation: Shout in the Loveless Forest), a three-part series inspired by a real multiple murder case set to stream this summer. The director is international cult favorite Sion Sono who suffered a heart attack and underwent an operation in February. “It was all my fault,” Sono told media at an event in Tokyo on Tuesday. “I was really busy with editing. I feel I should pay Netflix compensation.”
Scheduled to begin streaming on Aug. 8 to 190 countries and territories is “The Naked Director,” a series based on the career of real-life porn director Toru Muranishi. Playing Muranishi, who pioneered the adult video genre in the 1980s, is Takayuki Yamada, a favorite of Takashi Miike and the star of the popular “Uchijima the Loan Shark” series.
- 6/26/2019
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
After he had attended Tokyo Film School Japanese director Sho Miyake went on to make numerous feature films as well as documentaries. Praised for their portrayal of friendship, youth and coming of age films like “Wild Tour”, “Playback” and “The Cockpit” have received international attention as well as various awards, such as the Nippons Visions Jury Award in 2015 or the “Best New Director Award at the 22nd Japan Film Professional Awards.
We sat down with the director on the occasion of his film “And Your Bird Can Sing”(2018) being screened at Nippon Connection 2019 and talked with him about his film, his inspirations for the project as well as the shooting of “And Your Bird Can Sing”.
“And Your Bird Can Sing” is screening at Nippon Connection
Mr Miyake, as you know the overall topic of this year’s Nippon Connection is outlaws and outsiders within the Japanese society. Would you...
We sat down with the director on the occasion of his film “And Your Bird Can Sing”(2018) being screened at Nippon Connection 2019 and talked with him about his film, his inspirations for the project as well as the shooting of “And Your Bird Can Sing”.
“And Your Bird Can Sing” is screening at Nippon Connection
Mr Miyake, as you know the overall topic of this year’s Nippon Connection is outlaws and outsiders within the Japanese society. Would you...
- 6/2/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
The city of Yamaguchi located in the southern part of Japan, between Hiroshima and Fukuoka, is the research area of a student group looking for DNA samples of plants and bacteria. Ume is 19 years old and an intern at the Yamaguchi Center of Arts and Media. She forms a group with Take and Shun. On nature trips, the two 15-year-old high schoolers fall in love with her.
Sho Miyake (“And Your Bird Can Sing” 2018) observes the observers. While documenting the process with their phones, the teenagers are being watched by the audience. In the course of the movie, the objective research project gets distracted by the emotions of its participants. As the group departs to compile a field guide of environmental information, the boys also discover their emotions for Ume. But she unsuccessfully tries to get back in love with Yamazaki, a friend from university. The boy’s efforts to...
Sho Miyake (“And Your Bird Can Sing” 2018) observes the observers. While documenting the process with their phones, the teenagers are being watched by the audience. In the course of the movie, the objective research project gets distracted by the emotions of its participants. As the group departs to compile a field guide of environmental information, the boys also discover their emotions for Ume. But she unsuccessfully tries to get back in love with Yamazaki, a friend from university. The boy’s efforts to...
- 3/12/2019
- by Alexander Knoth
- AsianMoviePulse
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