To celebrate the end of this year and to whatever 2019 might bring, we happily release our top ten Japanese movies of 2018.
Category: Lists
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.
