

Achieved
- Saw a number of super-rare films in 35mm
- Reached 93% on Totosan’s 70s Toei Films list
- Reached 51% on Totosan’s 60s Toei Films list
Notable Retrospectives Attended
- Toei Oizumi Vol. 3 (Laputa Asagaya) (Feb-Apr.)
- Legendary Movie Theater: The 6392 Days of Ooi Musashinokan (Cinema Vera) (May-Jun.)
- Sayuri Yoshinaga and Our Youth (Jinbocho Theater) (May-Jun.)
- Japanese Cinema and Music: Composers in the 1950s and 1960s (May-Jul.) (Film Archive)
- The Deep World of Toei New Porno Returns (Laputa Asagaya) (Jun-Aug.)
- Roman Porno Retrospective (Laputa Asagaya) (Jun-Aug.)
- Fighting Women Collection (Laputa Asagaya) (Aug-Sep.)
- Director’s Guild of Japan Selection (Laputa Asagaya) (Sep-Nov.)
- Tsunehiko Watase Retrospective (Laputa Asagaya) (Nov-Dec.)
- Stylish Teruo Ishii - 100th Anniversary (Cinema Vera) (Nov.)
Screwed up
- Was late from my flight to Osaka due to snow storm, managed to get a seat from the next flight which ended up getting cancelled, finally arrived 12 hours late with a third flight, which was too late to catch Yakuza Wolf 2’s last screening in Shinsekai Osaka. Two days intended to watch Truck Yaro 10 and Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom, but Truck Yaro was dropped from the program due to print condition, replaced by Red Peony Gambler 7 which is my least favourite in the series. Went to see it anyway… for 10 minutes before I walked out because the projection quality was so bad (image out of focus, heavily cropped on sides). On the positive side I got to see both Yakuza Wolf 2 and Lynch Law Classroom later the same year in Laputa from their usual top notch projections and superb prints.
Favourite Discoveries
- The Whale God (1962)
- Tale of Scarlet Love (1963)
- Return to Women's Native Ground (1966)
- Secret Information (1968)
- Daughters of Darkness (1971)
- The Lady Hermit (1971)
- A Flower in a Neon Jungle (1973)
- A Diary of a Woman Doctor (1973)
- A College Girl’s Affairs (1974)
- Go for Broke (1985)

(Some of) The Worst Films I Saw
- Venus in Furs (Dallamano) (1969)
- Girl Mistress (1980)
- East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights (1998)
- Matching (2023)
- Dune Part 2 (2024)
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