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Entries by Karin Badt from 11/2011

An All-Night Bath Experience In Tokyo (PHOTOS)

| Posted 11.01.2011
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So at four in the morning, I went into the "massage room" and fell asleep while receiving a very decorous shiatsu massage by a man who kept reminding me to make sure my kimono was tightly shut.

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French Film Untouchable Wins Grand Prize at Tokyo International Film Festival

| Posted 11.04.2011
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Two of the European films featured in this year's Tokyo International Film Festival had the same message: value immigrants and people of color.

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French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: "No God but Cinema"

| Posted 11.21.2011
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It is not an easy film to understand, nor does one ever grasp the complete story, if there is one. But it is remarkably hypnotizing and rests in one's visual memory for a long time afterwards.

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