“One of the most poetic narratives ever created about the ravage of enjoyment and the impossibility of society to deal with it.”
Destruction Babies (2016) review
“A wonderful but slightly disturbing confrontation with violent enjoyment.”
Cure (1997) Review
“The pulsating revelation that every subject hides a destructive drive and violent desire is the true scandal of the narrative.”
21th century girl (2018) Review
A powerful plea for more support for female directorial talent and for more Japanese narratives that explore female subjectivity, question the nature of the sexual relationship, and investigate the effects society has on women and their subjectivity.
Noise (2017) [Final version] review
“This questioning, framed with thoughtful cinematography and brought to life by deeply nuanced performances, will long linger in the spectator’s mind.”
Mechanical Telepathy (2018) review
Igarashi Akiko does prove herself to be a new fresh voice in the Japanese sci-fi genre
The Garden Apartment (2018) review [IFFR 2019]
“A beautiful meditation on the dangers of love”
Domains (2019) review [IFFR 2019]
“Kusano is able to evokes nothing other than the very fact that one’s subjective truth is ever constructed in cyclic retro-active way.”
Snow Flower (2019) review
“A narrative that is, at no point, able to evoke the power of the song it has used as inspiration.”
Drowning Love (2016) review
Despite the obvious romanticism, a sincere and believable account of a first love.
