Samurai and general Japanese film in October

Schedule searches on IFC, Sundance Channel, HBO/Cinemax, TMC/Showtime, Starz, and TCM resulted in the following films. All times are Eastern Standard Time. Please check your local schedule if you're interested in any of them to be certain of showtimes.

10/9 IFC Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) 8AM, 1:30PM, (10/10) 6AM

10/16 IFC Samurai III: Duel on Ganryu Island (1956) 8AM, 1:30PM, (10/17) 6AM

10/23 IFC The Seven Samurai (1954, edited version) 8AM

10/30 IFC 47 Ronin, Part 1 (1941) 8AM, 1:45PM, (10/31) 6AM

Sundance Channel is showing "Rhapsody in August," a 1991 film by Kurosawa exploring the impact of the atomic bombing of Japan, in both English and Japanese.
(10/15) 12PM, (10/21) 8AM, 5PM, (10/24) 1PM, (10/28) 5:15AM

In honor of Halloween...

10/20 Showtime Blood: The Last Vampire (animated) 5AM

10/29 TCM Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939)... A German actor (Peter Lorre) portraying a Japanese detective... purely for fun.

And this last is especially for secretarytocapt3:

10/12 More Max (east feed) The Legend of Suriyothai 3:30AM... About a 16th century Thai queen.

For more information on these films, check the Internet Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) or the following cable channel sites.

IFC (Independent Film Channel) http://www.ifctv.com/ifc/index
Sundance Channel http://www.sundancechannel.com
HBO/Cinemax family http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_TODAY=TODAY&ntrack_para1=topnav7
TMC/Showtime/Flix family (The Movie Channel) http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/index.do
Starz family http://www.starz.com/se/ssp/schedule/index.html
TCM (Turner Classic Movies) http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/

Also, check to see if you have International Channel available. It just recently became a part of my cable programming as well as offering a family of premium channels in some areas. Quite a bit of Japanese programming, from J-Pop on Fridays, NHK news in the mornings (but no Shinsengumi!... yet), movies and dramas, and anime. They're currently showing an 11-episode drama called "To the One I Love" on Sundays at 9PM
http://www.internationalchannel.com/home.asp

phil


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Pop Japan TV on the International Channel is cool on Friday nights . .
.my husband and I have been watching for almost a year. Also, on Sunday
nights (10 pm EST) they air Hey Hey Hey Music champ, which is a music
variety show that shows a lot of popular J-pop artists. Judy and Mary
were even on once performing the opening theme to Rurouni Kenshin. ^_^
The down side is it's not sub-titled, but it's fun getting a chance to
hear the variety of music they offer.

--Leah



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