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2023.12.9
ARTIZON MUSEUM to hold “Marie Laurencin: An Eye for Her Time” featuring Picasso, Tsuguharu Fujita, and more
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2024.2.14
The National Art Center, Tokyo to hold “Henri Matisse – Forms in Freedom” from February 2024
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Slowdive released its 5th album “Everything Is Alive” and a music video for the song “alife”
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2023.9.1
Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and “Little Women” on screens at Bunkamura Le Cinema Shibuya Miyashita
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2023.11.16
kino cinéma Shinjuku opens this November, their first theater in Tokyo’s 23 wards.
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A24’s latest film “Medusa Deluxe” revealed the trailer
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2023.11.18
The Setagaya Art Museum to exhibit “The Work of Shiro KURAMATA: A Microcosmos of Memory,” retracing his internationally acclaimed work
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2023.10.13
Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli’s latest film “Sick of Myself” to be screened this October
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Taiwanese alternative rock band Sorry Youth to tour Japan
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2023.12.29
Starring Mia Wasikowska, the film “BLUEBACK” opens in theaters on December 29.
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The new work “gravity” by the musician Velladon✕ the poet Mizuki Misumi will release.The song is read by Daisora Kimijima, Yusuke Kobayashi, and Hirofumi Hatano.
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2023.10.21
The film “Kienai Akari” depicts the relationship between a daughter and a deceased father using the “vacant house problem” as a motif.
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2026.2.13
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia” Sets Japan Release for February 2026
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2026.2.16
Mac DeMarco Announces Japan Tour for February 2026
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2026.2.16
Mac DeMarco Adds Extra Japan Tour Dates
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2026.2.16
ZORN and OZROSAURUS Team Up for Family Day Live at Nippon Budokan
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2026.2.17
Lucy Dacus Announces Tokyo Talk & Signing Ahead of First Japan Show
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2026.2.18
Wet Leg Announce Japan Tour for February 2026 with Second Album in Tow
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2026.2.18
Hitsujibungaku Join wet leg’s Tokyo Show as Special Guests
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2026.2.20
Cannes Winner “Sentimental Value” to Hit Japanese Theaters Joachim Trier’s Latest Film
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2026.2.11
Tate Britain Brings 1990s UK Art Retrospective to Tokyo
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2026.2.7
Vaundy Announces Major Dome Tour, Breaks Record as Youngest Solo Artist to Headline
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Vermeer’s ”Girl with a Pearl Earring” Comes to Osaka for a Rare Limited Time Exhibition
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LiSA Marks Her 15th Anniversary With a New Album and Major 2026 Asia Tour