“A touching exploration of how un-recruited love eventually scars subjectivity.”
Month: February 2020
Japanese News Flashes: Takashi Miike, Masataka Kubota, and Cinemasia Film Festival.
“Read our report of the Q&A with Takashi Miike and Masataka Kubota we attended and our introduction of the CinemAsia Film Festival. “
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) Review
“Provides everything fans have come to expect from the franchise.”
Kushina (2018) review [OAFF 2018]
“A strong statement against suffocating parental desires, desires that do not give the child the necessary space and time to let his own desire comes to fruition.”
Obake (2019) review [PFF Festival]
“This narrative proves that creativity still has a place within the art of cinema.”
On the Art and Relevance of Film Criticism: Discussion (part 1).
“Is the critic merely a marketing tool? Why is there a divide between film-loving audiences and the critics? Has the critic a problem with integrity?”
Short Movie time: 『朝の夢』 (2019)
“A very intimate and moving ode to Ikezoe’s grandmother.”
Short Movie Time: Jujuba (2018)
“An evocative expression of subjectivity (…) that successfully reveals how beyond non-understanding subjects do define each other through the signifier/word.”
Hydra (2019) review [JFFH 2019]
“Kensuke Sonomura’s entertaining action-noir narrative does convince us of the fact that he, if given a bigger budget and better technical equipment, could make cinematographical products far more entertaining and far more gripping.”
Labyrinth of Cinema (2019) review [IFFR 2020]
“Not only the most important movie made by Obayashi but also the most important Japanese movie of the last decade.”