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.
Tag: Hirobumi Watanabe
Top 15 Japanese movies 2023
Our Top movies of 2023. Check it out, now.
Techno Brothers (2023) review
An amazing blend of arthouse minimalism and weird deadpan comedy.
Love Will Tear Us Apart (2023) review [Camera Japan Festival]
A narrative that blows a refreshing wind in both the slasher and the romance genre.
Top 10 Japanese films of 2020
It’s that time of the year again, the time to introduce our top 10 Japanese films of 2020.
I’m Really Good (2020) review [Japannual 2020]
By using a simple narrative contrast, Watanabe succeeds in celebrating the innocence of children as well as confronting us with the childish reality we have sadly lost forever.
Top 10 Japanese Movies 2019.
“Find out our top 10 Japanese movies of 2019.”
Cry (2019) Review
“A strangely powerful narrative on life’s monotonous cyclicity.”
Life Finds a way (2018) review
“(This) might very well be Watanabe’s best work yet.”
Top 10 Japanese movies 2017
In short, Japanese cinema provided something for everyone – and through many of these cinematographical products a window on contemporary Japanese society was offered. Of course not all movies made this year are a must-see. So with our top 10, we aim to give a personal advice on which movies one should see.
Party ’round the globe (2017) Review
“[The] narrative (…) exert[s] a strange charming attraction on the spectator [while painting] a purified account of the guiding nature of desire and the importance of taking part in the social field.”
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