A commentary of a night with friends of the Japanese indie-scene.
Category: Indie
Paradise Lost (2020) Review
“Fukuma delivers a highly original exploration of the subject’s need to secure a place for himself to desire from.”
Kushina (2018) review [OAFF 2018]
“A strong statement against suffocating parental desires, desires that do not give the child the necessary space and time to let his own desire comes to fruition.”
Obake (2019) review [PFF Festival]
“This narrative proves that creativity still has a place within the art of cinema.”
Mimicry Freaks (2019) review
“An amazing horror film and a gripping exploration of the cycle of abuse and the horrors child-abuse quite often lead to.”
Demolition Girl (2019) review
“One of the most emotionally powerful coming-of-age narratives of this year.”
Cry (2019) Review
“A strangely powerful narrative on life’s monotonous cyclicity.”
Stolen (2019) Review.
“This year’s indie-gem.”
Short Movie Time: Sense of Sin (2018)
“Hatayama succeeded in crafting a creative and moving exploration of the inability of a subject to escape his unresolved trauma as well as his guilt.”
Yeah (2018) review
“An experimental narrative that successfully critiques the current state of Japan’s mental healthcare.”
[Short Movie Time] A Japanese Boy Who Draws (2019) [Japannual 2019]
“A highly original narrative that communicates its powerful statement on art through its modulation of its eclectic art-style.”
Sea (2018) review
“This narrative reveals and displays Takahashi’s talent in cinematographical composing and in evoking natural emotions.”
Life Finds a way (2018) review
“(This) might very well be Watanabe’s best work yet.”
Our House (2017) review [Japannual 2018]
“One of the most promising debuts of the past couple of years.”
His Bad Blood (2019) review [Fantasia Film Festival]
“If there is one narrative that one needs to see (…) it is Oyama’s fabulous debut.”
