A great and visually pleasing narrative about the socially embedded nature of the process of coming-into-being-as-subject.
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999) review
Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris is, without a doubt, the best film of the Heisei Gamera trilogy.
Gamera 2: Attack of Legion (1996)
A great sequel that delivers everything what Kajju fans desire, but in a less thrilling manner than the first reboot film did.
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995) review
A successful reboot that succeeds in honouring Gamera’s classic past, while also evolving this iconic Kaiju in a meaningful way.
Hotel Iris (2021) review [Osaka Asian Film Festival]
“An artfully composed erotic narrative that plays with the well-known psychoanalytic fact that the relational past of subjects impacts the possibility and appearance of sexual attraction between a man and a woman.”
Ito (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
“A charming exploration about the way in which the other allows a drifting subject to moor his desire and find a direction for his subjectivity within the Other.”
B/B (2020) review [OAFF 2021]
“Nakahama succeeds in delivering his message concerning the human tendency to misrecognize the traumatic pain of others in a fresh and touching manner.”
The Asian Angel (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
“Ishii’s latest succeeds in showing, in a powerful and touching manner, the possibility of intercultural friendship and romance.”
Yes, Yes, Yes (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
“A raw and powerful drama narrative that confronts the spectator with the inherent difficulty of accepting the loss of a loved one.”
Short Movie Time: Among Four of Us (2020) review [OAFF 2021]
“A great short narrative that beautifully highlights the impact of the state of emergency on the subjective and social state of speaking beings.”
Over The Town (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
Imaizumi’s narrative littered with a multitude of beautifully nuanced moments of natural relation poetry.
The Japanese subject and the unconscious (part 2).
“It is, in other words, the moral plight/responsibility of psychoanalysis to urge subjects to think themselves from the sexual lack that marks their being and confront them with the sexual non-relation; ‘I’ll n’y a pas de rapport sexual.”
Ozu (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
“A finely composed narrative that succeeds in revealing that various themes of Ozu’s narrative have not yet lost their relevance for the contemporary spectator.”
A Rainbow-colored trip (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
A great narrative that does not only touches upon the beauty of one’s first love (…), but also on the selfishness that drives the wishes of human subjects.
Our 30 Minute Sessions (2020) review
A very pleasant narrative that vividly underlines the importance of social bonds for the integration of a subject within the social field as well as the fundamental role the O/other plays in the process of becoming a desiring subject.
