“With her impressive and touching debut, Yuko Hakota reveals herself as one very promising director. “
Category: drama
Jesus (2019) review [Japan Camera Festival]
“A promising debut of Hiroshi Okuyama”.
Red Snow (2019) review [Camera Japan Festival 2019]
“Those (spectators) that give the narrative a chance will become captivated by its moving evocation of the tension between speech and truth.”
Sea (2018) review
“This narrative reveals and displays Takahashi’s talent in cinematographical composing and in evoking natural emotions.”
Sidejob (2017) Review [Japannual 2018]
“Excels in bringing the subjective impact such disastrous event can have sensibly and powerfully to the fore.”
Hard-Core (2018) Review [Fantasia Film Fest]
“(The narrative) reveals, in a painful way, that something that works well in manga does not always translates in an equal pleasant fashion on the silver screen.”
Day And Night (2019) review [Fantasia Film Festival]
Introduction As Michihito Fujii is young and his oeuvre somewhat limited, it might come as a surprise that he was already given the opportunity to direct two somewhat larger projects, like The Journalist (2019) and Day and Night (2019), in one and the same year. While this might point to a trust in his talent,…
His Bad Blood (2019) review [Fantasia Film Fesival]
“If there is one narrative that one needs to see (…) it is Oyama’s fabulous debut.”
Organ (2018) review
“A narrative that, when all is said and done, fails to realize its potential to move the spectator. “
And Your Bird Can Sing (2018) review
“By rendering the subjectivity of his protagonists as opaque as possible to the spectator, Miyake is able to successfully highlight the difficulties of realizing a subjective position.”
