“Noriko Yuasa succeeds in visualizing the bursting impact of love in a fresh and highly visual way.”
Category: Short film
Short Movie Time: Nagisa (2017) [OAFF 2018]
“Takeshi Kogahara’s impresses with his highly evocative tragedy of subjective inhibition.”
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.”
Short Movie Time: Tokyo Girl [PFF2019]
“Hashimoto offers a more clear analysis of the problems subjects have to cope with within contemporary society than most feature-length movies do in there entire run-time”
Short Movie Time: When The Rain Stops (2018) [PFF 2019]
“A bittersweet narrative that questions the possibility of friendship beyond the mere ego-to-ego interactions.”
Short Movie time: 『朝の夢』 (2019)
“A very intimate and moving ode to Ikezoe’s grandmother.”
Short Movie Time: Jujuba (2018)
“An evocative expression of subjectivity (…) that successfully reveals how beyond non-understanding subjects do define each other through the signifier/word.”
Short Movie Time: Carpe Diem (2019) review
“An engaging narrative about how violence directed to oneself can evolve into a violence towards others.”
Short Movie Time: Repeat after me (2018)
“A moving narrative about the deceptive nature of our ego, the very need for the subject to come into touch with his own desire in a moving way. “
short movie time: Breakers (2018)
“Minami Goto reveals her rich talent as writer and director, positioning herself in pole position to become a new strong voice in Japanese cinema.”
Ten Years Japan (2018) review
“And while these alarming narratives might not be able to agitate Japanese politicians, [these narratives] is still a moving warning that everyone should see.”
[Short Movie Time] Wakare-uta (2018)
“Atsuko reaffirms, with this atmospheric and touching narrative, her artistic talent.”
Short Movie Time: Hypnotism for Love (2016)
“One wonders how on earth it is possible that Inoue has not yet received a chance to craft a full-length feature.”
Short Movie Time: One Last Time (2018)
“The rather intriguing atmospheric blend of music and imagery shows Artegg-Yumi’s artistic ability and promise to craft narratives that are uniquely hers. “
[Short movie time] Arcadia (2018)
“While not all is perfect, it is still a very moving account, full of subtlety, of an encounter between two human beings. In other words, a short movie worth seeing.”
