“One of the most promising debuts of the past couple of years.”
Category: Indie
His Bad Blood (2019) review [Fantasia Film Fesival]
“If there is one narrative that one needs to see (…) it is Oyama’s fabulous debut.”
Okinawan Blue (2019) review
“One of the best visual advertisements for Okinawa of recent years.”
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.”
Mechanical Telepathy (2018) review
Igarashi Akiko does prove herself to be a new fresh voice in the Japanese sci-fi genre
Domains (2019) review [IFFR 2019]
“Kusano is able to evokes nothing other than the very fact that one’s subjective truth is ever constructed in cyclic retro-active way.”
Keita Never Die (2018) review
“This indie genre-bender is still a narrative worth checking out.”
Special Report: meeting with Macoto Tezka.
“The visual as aesthetic is as important for Tezka’s subjectivity as it was for his father’s subjectivity.”
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.”
