“While we of course encourage the audience to explore the many films this rich festival has to offer, we do want to introduce our recommendations, films that we think are worth seeing and offer certain experience, whether pleasing or confronting.”
Category: Lists
Top 10 Japanese films of 2020
It’s that time of the year again, the time to introduce our top 10 Japanese films of 2020.
Top 10 Japanese films of the decade. [2010-2019]
Find out which films we selected for our top ten Japanese films of the last decade (and also discover Onderhond’s second opinion).
Fantasia Film Festival: 8 Japanese film recommendations
“While there are many Japanese films to discover at the festival – even for us, we can already provide eight recommendations for this year’s festival.”
Japan Cuts 2020: Our recommendations.
“We introduce our recommendations for this year’s Japan Cuts, including Labyrinth of Cinema (2019), Murders of Oiso (2019), Extro (2020), Roar (2019), and Shell and Joint (2019).”
Nippon Connection Online Film Fest: our recommendations.
“With the online festival already in full swing, we gladly introduce our readers to nine movies we recommend.”
11 Japanese movies to watch in quarantine.
“With Covid-19 raging throughout the world, many people are ‘ordered’/asked by their governments to stay inside and socially distance themselves. To overcome this harsh time, we compiled a list of ten amazing and easily available Japanese movies to watch during these strange and difficult times. “
Top 10 Japanese Movies 2019.
“Find out our top 10 Japanese movies of 2019.”
Japannual: 6 must-see movies.
As Japannual is just around the corner, we want to introduce our recommendations for Vienna’s most amazing film-festival.
Camera Japan Festival: 6 must-see narratives.
“Our recommendations for this year’s Camera Japan Festival.”
Top 10 Japanese movies of 2018
To celebrate the end of this year and to whatever 2019 might bring, we happily release our top ten Japanese movies of 2018.
Recommended top 10: Norichika Oba [日本語]
“今まで僕が観た映画の中で、最も刺激を受けた映画だと言えます。”
Recommended Top 10: Masakazu Kaneko [日本語/Eng]
Introduction/序論 Again, it is time to celebrate! At the Inca Imperial International Film Festival Masakuza Kaneko’s The Albino’s Tree (2016) received the award for Best Photography and, even better, won the award for the Best Feature Film. While you can read in our review what’s so wonderful about this beautiful nuanced narrative, we also asked Masakuza Kaneko…
Recommended Top 10: Daisuke Miyazaki [JP/ENG]
“On the day that I saw this movie, I was ‘ordered’ to fight, during my entire life, with divine violence.”
Top 10 Japanese movies 2017
In short, Japanese cinema provided something for everyone – and through many of these cinematographical products a window on contemporary Japanese society was offered. Of course not all movies made this year are a must-see. So with our top 10, we aim to give a personal advice on which movies one should see.
