“Excels in bringing the subjective impact such disastrous event can have sensibly and powerfully to the fore.”
Category: drama
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 Festival]
“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.”
Dare to Stop us (2018) review
“Hiraishi beautifully and touchingly evokes that cinema can always fails one’s subjective struggle. “
The Chrysanthemum and The Guillotine (2018) review
“Zeze movingly reveals that the ground for true revolution should be love and its goal the realization of that place where a woman can realize her agency as subject.”
Okinawan Blue (2019) review
“One of the best visual advertisements for Okinawa of recent years.”
