“Ishii’s latest succeeds in showing, in a powerful and touching manner, the possibility of intercultural friendship and romance.”
Tag: Jo Odagiri
Room Laundering (2018) review [Fantasia Fest]
“A subtle emotional narrative about the central question of love that bothers every neurotic subject.”
Over The Fence (2016) Review [Camera Japan Festival]
“It is not love-story in the traditional sense of the word, but a wonderful and moving psychological study of the concept of meeting, a sort of meeting that might change each subject involved forever.”
Yureru (2006) review
Yureru proves to be a very intimate emotive meditation on the mendacity of identity and the subjectivity in experiencing reality. It is a sublime meditation we recommend to everyone.
Kawaki/World of Kanako (2014) Review
“A very engaging, subversive exploration into the various effects this irrational real can have on speaking subjects.”
Air Doll (2009) Review
“Kore-eda, with his thoughtful and powerful visual composition, offers a sad and touching meditation on loneliness and subjective emptiness and the importance of love and desire to escape this subjective emptiness.”
Yureru/ゆれる (2006) (Review)
An intimate emotive meditation on the mendacity of identity.
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