“An amazing horror film and a gripping exploration of the cycle of abuse and the horrors child-abuse quite often lead to.”
Category: Reviews
Short Movie Time: Carpe Diem (2019) review
“An engaging narrative about how violence directed to oneself can evolve into a violence towards others.”
Flowers of Evil (2019) Review
“(The narrative) unearths the struggle that the blossoming of one’s polymorph perverse sexuality can have on one’s process of coming-into-being in a beautiful way.”
Demolition Girl (2019) review
“One of the most emotionally powerful coming-of-age narratives of this year.”
Little Miss Period (2019) Review
“An emotionally rich experience of what it means to experience the period or a flaring sexual drive.”
Love’s Twisting Path (2019) Review
“Nakajima’s movie delivers everything that one expects from an jidai-geki narrative.”
Fly Me To The Saitama (2019) Review
“We duly recommend this high-school boys-love romance adventure to any Japanese cinema lover.”
Short Movie Time: Sense of Sin (2018)
“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.”
Yeah (2018) review
“An experimental narrative that successfully critiques the current state of Japan’s mental healthcare.”
Blue Hour (2019) review [Japannual 2019]
“With her impressive and touching debut, Yuko Hakota reveals herself as one very promising director. “
