Category: Sexuality

My Sunshine (2024) review

A bittersweet celebration of youth – seishun, celebrates the importance of the encounter and of desire, the force that pushes the subject towards inter-subjective connection.

Teki Cometh (2024) review [Camera Japan Festival]

A vivid and mesmerising experience that does not only illustrates the subjective impact of increased isolation on giving meaning to one’s own life – on the stability of the frame of one’s ego.

In Her Room (2022) review

For those who succeed in looking past the phallus during Ito’s narrative will find a renewed respect of the complexity of the feminine position.    

A Story Written With Water (1965) review

An exquisitely layered psychological drama that unveils how a subject’s fixation on a phantasmatic image disrupts his ability to commit himself romantically to the female other

A Far Shore (2022) review

A highly engaging story that explores the destructive effects of a societal field that fails to reach out to subjects-in-need.

Call Me Chihiro (2023) review

What makes Imaizumi’s narrative a pleasant and such an emotional watch is the fine balance he found between waves of light-heartedness and the forlorn aftertaste that remains after bonds unravel.