“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: Japan-filmfest Hamburg
Dynamite Graffiti (2018) review [JFFH 2019]
(A narrative that movingly) reveals the productive as well as the destructive effects a certain fantasmatic solution to the enigma of female desire can have.
Playroom (2018) review [JFFH 2019]
“Our four mavericks have (…) created an interesting and compelling omnibus.”
Recommended top 10: Takuya Fukushima [JP/Eng]
“Even now, on the occasion of guiding the performances of actors, I occasionally show this movie as prime reference.”
Tatara Samurai (2016) review
“Those who are able to visually scrutinize the (…) detailed historical narrative space will (…) enjoy the narrative’s atmosphere and appreciate the pacifistic message about tradition and craftsmanship that this atmospheric narrative formulates.”
psycho-cinematography 