The Shinsedai Cinema Festival

06/14/2013

Correction: The Shinsedai Cinema Festival will not be taking place this year and is currently on hiatus. It was stated in today's Toronto Star that the fest will be happening starting July 11th. This is incorrect. Sorry for any confusion.

05/04/2013

TONIGHT! THE SPACE IN BACK OF YOU! Learn about the life of Japanese choreographer Suzushi Hanayagi. Screening at 6:00PM at the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay W). Admission $10.

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04/22/2013

"Like" the CanAsian Dance Festival on Facebook and you'll have a chance to win 2 FREE festival passes for this year's fest!

“A triumphant celebration of Asian roots” - Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail

04/22/2013

Shinsedai's Chris MaGee curates this year's Kibatsu Cinema at Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque!

04/02/2013

Great crowd-funding campaign - LOST & FOUND, a documentary which is trying to return objects washed up in from the 2011 tsunami to their owners in Tohoku. Details here:

YOU can ignite LOST & FOUND, and in turn help to make a film that powerfully observes the reuniting of belongings lost in the Japanese tsunami with their original owners.

03/25/2013

Shinsedai director Chris MaGee returns to blogging with his new site EASY ITEM/ イージー・アイタ.

03/22/2013

Shinsedai director Chris MaGee will be moderating a post-screening talk with Kazuhiro Soda Weds, after PEACE at Innis Town Hall. Full details HERE:

03/17/2013

Very important (and sad news) to report on this year’s Shinsedai Cinema Festival. Please read on for details:

An annual showcase of the best in new, independent and rarely seen Japanese films. It was conceived of by Chris MaGee (The J-Film Pow-Wow) and Jasper Sharp (Midnight Eye) in 2009, as a way of expanding people's ideas of what films from Japan are and can be.

03/10/2013

Remembering the tragedy in Japan two years ago...

02/27/2013

The amazing doc KanZeOn, from our 2011 line-up, returns to Toronto with a FREE screening at the Japan Foundation!

Join us at the Carlton Cinema for a special double bill of two visually and sonically gorgeous recent films about Buddhism.

02/26/2013

Tonight! Lecture #4, the 1960's, part of the Shinsedai Cinema Festival's Japanese Film: 1897-Today! 7:00 @ the Bahen Centre, Rm B025!

02/20/2013

Shinsedai's Chris MaGee remembers the late Donald Richie.

Chris, about Donald Richie (1924-2013) I was in Japan in 2010 to attend Tokyo Filmex, an annual event which showcases not only new film from Japan but from around the globe. Satisfied, as I’ve always...