Shigeaki Kubo reaffirms that he has the skill and talent to bring action-driven narratives to life in a satisfactorily way.
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Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 (2024) [Japannual 2024]
Inoue delivers a heartfelt ode to the mini-cinema and subjective failure.
Undercurrent (2023) review
Imaizumi delivers an engaging but understated emotional experience that explores the deceptive nature of imaginary veil that binds two subjects together.
Amiko (2022) review [Japan Cuts 2023]
A fabulous narrative that explores the destructive effects caused by the radical misunderstanding that marks the field of speech and the refusal to speak to one’s child as a subject.
Ninja Girl (2021) review [22nd Nippon connection]
“A political satire that will not fail to please audiences, but lacks the thematical punch to make a statement that will long linger in the spectator’s mind.”
Parasites In Love (2021) review
“One of the most original romance narratives of the year.”
True Mothers (2020) [TIFF 2020]
“A beautiful and emotionally rich meditation on the complex notion of motherhood, underlining, in a touching way, that the first essential step in becoming mother is the subjective assumption of the signifier mother.”
Miyamoto (2019) review [Japannual 2020]
“A gripping and surprisingly moving exploration of how one sometimes needs to perform an act in the real in order to be able to reestablish one’s subject in an imaginary position and reaffirm the symbolic inter-subjective commitment one has made.”
Red Snow (2019) review [Camera Japan Festival 2019]
“Those (spectators) that give the narrative a chance will become captivated by its moving evocation of the tension between speech and truth.”
Dare to Stop us (2018) review
“Hiraishi beautifully and touchingly evokes that cinema can always fails one’s subjective struggle. “
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