“An impressive debut by Teppei Isobe.”
Category: Youth
12 Suicidal Teens (2019) review
‘A rather forgettable experience.’
Short Movie Time: She’s Gone (2018)
“With this short narrative, Sara Ogawa proves that she’s an extremely talented director.”
Hot Gimmick: girl meets boy (2019) review
“A powerful evocation of the importance of assuming one’s own subjective position. ”
On the Edge of Their Seats (2020) [OAFF 2020]
‘One of the most powerful narratives concerning desire to date.’
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.”
Saimon and Tada Takashi (2018) Review [Japannual 2019]
“While Oda show promise as a director, his debut-narrative reveals that he has yet to find his own distinctive voice.”
And Your Bird Can Sing (2018) review
“By rendering the subjectivity of his protagonists as opaque as possible to the spectator, Miyake is able to successfully highlight the difficulties of realizing a subjective position.”
