“As we wander through the desolate narratives spaces, the shocking and scandalous truth Cure stages pulsates harder and harder: in every one of us resides a drive to destroy and desire to enact violence.”
Category: Directors
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.”
His Lost Name (2018) review
“A successful debut for Nanako Hirose”
The Legend of The Stardust Brothers (1985) review.
The time for this narrative to become a cult-classic has finally arrived.
Shoplifters (2018) review
“A corroboration of the fact that Kore-eda is one of the best directors currently alive.”
Ten Years Japan (2018) review
“And while these alarming narratives might not be able to agitate Japanese politicians, [these narratives] is still a moving warning that everyone should see.”
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968) Review
What Oshima exposes with his associative narrative play is nothing other that what what escapes and threatens the patriachal all: the not-all logic of the female subject and her extra-phallic enjoyment.
River’s Edge (2018) review
“A rather ambitious project that succeeds in evoking the complexity of adolescence in a crude, unflattering and straightforward way.”
Talks with directors: Yoko Yamanaka.
“It is bad to do things on impulse.”
Meeting with directors: Takuya Fukushima
Introduction Thursday, I had the honour to attend a screening of Modern Love (English review/Japanese review) in Shinjuku’s K’s Cinema in the presence of the director Takuya and some of the crew-members – a guy responsible for the production design and a female make-up artist.
Moments of cine-beauty: Yasujiro Ozu and the vase.
“A stillness that evokes nothing other than the nature of Japanese traditional culture as such – and the lives it influences.”
Outrage Coda (2017) review
“So while (the narrative) doesn’t reach the level of its predecessors, it is still a worthy conclusion of this trilogy full of pessimism and nihilism.”
Recommended top 10: Takuya Fukushima [JP/Eng]
“Even now, on the occasion of guiding the performances of actors, I occasionally show this movie as prime reference.”
The Sleeping Beast Within (1960) Review
It is his beautiful use of movement within shots and his exquisite use of interior geometry that underlines his compositional talent.
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