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Midnight Eye was a non-profit website dedicated to reviews and analyses of Japanese cinema, along with book reviews and interviews with filmmakers. Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, and Martin Mes founded and ran the site from 2001 until its retirement in June 2015.
Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, and Martin Mes founded Midnight Eye in the spring of 2001. Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp served as editors; Martin Mes designed and programmed the site. Tom Mes conceived the idea after watching a retrospective of Japanese films at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2000.
Midnight Eye stopped adding new content on the 29th of June 2015, when its founders announced they were calling it a day. The site itself was set to remain in place for the time being, per the founders' statement.
Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp published The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film in 2004. The book contains more than 100 reviews of Japanese films and features a foreword by Hideo Nakata.
Midnight Eye published interviews with Hayao Miyazaki, Takashi Miike, Satoshi Kon, and Yuki Tanada, among others. The site drew on contributions from numerous writers beyond its three founding editors.
The Criterion Collection, Forbes, Bustle, DVD Talk, and Vice are among the publications that referenced Midnight Eye's work. The site described itself as the main source of info on Japanese cinema in the English language.