Category: Sexuality

At the Lovehotel (2026) review [Nippon Connection 2026]

Santa Ikegami delivers a self-assured debut that does not easily give away its thematical message.

The Deepest Space In Us (2025) [Nippon Connection 2026]

Chikuma utilizes his atmospheric blend of intimacy and alienation to assert that the societal field will always fail the Otherness of its subjects and, more importantly, that the deepest space in us is something that continually escapes us.

This Is I (2026) review

Matsumoto makes a very convincing case for the need for the societal field to become more willing to grant subjects the right to nominate themselves in accordance with their subjective position.

A Love Letter From Yesterday (2024) review

The emotional drama is extremely flat – and even the sexual encounters, despite being well-acted by the female cast, cannot infuse life into the dried-up bed of the film’s emotional river.          

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.