“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.”
Category: Indie
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 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.”
