Every week, veteran broadcaster and DJ Peter Barakan hits the Tokyo airwaves showcasing a range of carefully selected songs to his listeners. Now he¡¯s doing the same thing with movies.
Barakan is in his third year as curator and namesake of Peter Barakan¡¯s Music Film Festival, which runs this year from today through Sept. 21 at Kadokawa Cinema Yurakucho in Tokyo¡¯s Chiyoda Ward. The three-week event will feature 31 films including documentaries, concert films and narrative films centered on music.
The England-born broadcaster has been a fixture in Japanese music media for decades and currently hosts multiple radio shows such as the Sunday evening music program ¡°Barakan Beat¡± on InterFM. Outside Japan, he may be best known as the host of the NHK cultural TV series, ¡°Japanology Plus.¡±
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