“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. “
Category: Movies
Talks with film-critics: Mark Schilling.
“We decided to sit down with him and interview him about the current state of the Japanese industry, how he became a film-critic, his style of reviewing and more.”
Small Commentaries: Friends of Japanese Indie Cinema.
A commentary of a night with friends of the Japanese indie-scene.
Short Movie Time: Yukkuri/slowly (2019) [OAFF 2019]
“A creative experiment that successfully plays with the notion of the unsaid and affirms her visual sensitivity and her compositional strength.”
Videophobia (2019) review [OAFF 2020]
“A return to form for Daisuke Miyazaki.”
Paradise Lost (2020) Review
“Fukuma delivers a highly original exploration of the subject’s need to secure a place for himself to desire from.”
Mrs Noisy (2019) review [CinemAsia Film Festival]
“With her narrative, Amano successfully urges the spectator to be more considerate of someone else’s subjective position.”
Tezuka’s Barbara (2019) review [CinemAsia Film Festival]
“A moody narrative that beautifully reveals that addictive love, in the end, serves nothing but the egoistic needs of the addicted subject.”
First Love (2019) Review
“Takashi Miike’s latest beautifully underlines that the only kind of violence worthy of humanity is a violence born out of love.”
Just Only Love (2019) Review
“A touching exploration of how un-recruited love eventually scars subjectivity.”
Japanese News Flashes: Takashi Miike, Masataka Kubota, and Cinemasia Film Festival.
“Read our report of the Q&A with Takashi Miike and Masataka Kubota we attended and our introduction of the CinemAsia Film Festival. “
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2019) Review
“Provides everything fans have come to expect from the franchise.”
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.”
On the Art and Relevance of Film Criticism: Discussion (part 1).
“Is the critic merely a marketing tool? Why is there a divide between film-loving audiences and the critics? Has the critic a problem with integrity?”
