“One of the Tsukamoto’s most accomplished narratives.”
Category: Directors
We Are Little Zombies (2019) Review
“Nagahisa has earned himself the honour to be considered as one of the most promising directors of Japan today.”
Dawn of the Felines (2016) review
“(The narrative) fully realizes what Roman Porno stands for, offering an erotically enticing investigation of inter-subjectivity and the role of sexuality within one’s subjectivity.”
Dynamite Graffiti (2018) review [JFFH 2019]
(A narrative that movingly) reveals the productive as well as the destructive effects a certain fantasmatic solution to the enigma of female desire can have.
Only She Knows (1960) review
“Highly recommended for those fans of Japan’s Nouvelle Vague movement.”
Dangan Runner (1996) review
“This more cerebral comedy should, in fact, be on every Japanese cinema lover’s to-see list.”
The Third Murder (2017) Review
An unsettling and powerful account of the problematic aspects marking Japan’s legal system – a system enabling the third murder.”
Neko Atsume House (2017) review
“His most pure celebration of the very positive function cats can have in a subject’s life.”
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.
