“A very atmospheric film that keep the spectator’s interest while making him feel ill-at-ease.”
Category: Violence
The Waxing and Waning of Life (2022) [SKIP-CITY International D-Cinema Festival 2022]
A powerful emotional experience that shows that only a social bond where there is place for subjective speech can help the formerly addicted subject to avoid getting caught up again in the circuit of substance-enjoyment.
Our recommendations: Fantasia 2023
Any cinephile should watch these 5 Japanese movies at the Fantasia Film Festival.
Conflagration (1958) review
A narrative that serenely depicts the possible outcome of a subject’s failure to find, in a post-war landscape, someone to carry the Name-Of-The-Father.
Cyclops (2018) review
Oba combines a composition that emphasizes the troubled subjectivity of the main character with a narrative that highlights the rot within the Other of the law
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1998) review
A blast from start to finish (…) one of the best idiosyncratic romance narratives from the late nineties.
Trail Of Blood (1972) review
Ikehiro stylishly celebrates the Matatabi film of the past and offers the chanbara-enthusiast enough sword-fighting action to satisfy him/her.
Setagaya Game (2023) review
The Ohara Bros do not only offer the spectator a pleasant concatenation of kicks and punches, but also deliver a touching emotional pay-off.
Ghost in the Well (1957) review
Toshikazu Kono hits all the right emotional notes to deliver a satisfying tragic love story.
GO (2001) review
An exquisite structured exploration of how fictions of nationality fracture and shape they societal field as well as the subjects subject to it and the relational dynamics they establish.
Drive Into Night (2022)
A pleasant narrative that laments the ongoing pauperization of the social bond.
Electric Dragon 80000V (2001) review
The beauty of the monochrome visuals as well as the roughness of the musical accompaniment is enough to keep the spectator engaged from start to finish.
Rodan (1956) review [The Godzilla Project]
Honda delivers a bleak and disconcerting outlook on the optimistic post-war reparative economic growth.
Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) review
Shimizu’s narrative remains, after all these years, an effective horror film and a J-horror classic in its own right.
Blue Collar Physics (2022) review [Skip-City International D-Cinema festival]
Kobayashi shows that the narrative element of the super-power can be used to explore human subjectivity and to highlight the often antagonistic link between the subject and his Other.
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