Makoto Nagahisa leverages the evocative power of visuals and sounds to plunge the spectator into a subjective experience of subjects who only appear as silenced within the media, with the expulsed human ‘trash’ produced by the contemporary societal Other.
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Escape (2025) review [Nippon Connection 2025]
Adachi crafted a beautiful and affectionate piece on the troubled subjectivity of a subject who choose to escape, erasing his name from the societal field, to avoid capture.
Drive Into Night (2022)
A pleasant narrative that laments the ongoing pauperization of the social bond.
Fuku-chan of Fukufuku Flats (2014) review [Fantasia 2020]
“With his low-key dramedy, one will laugh, one will tear up, but above all, one will come to understand that matters of romance always require a leap of faith.”
Tamaran Hill (2019) review [Nippon Connection online]
“Kotani beautifully shows how important the signifier is for the subjectivity of the speaking being.”
Tremble all you want (2017) Review
“A refreshing little gem, a truly heart-warming experience full of honest and heartfelt emotions.”
Harmonium (2016) review
“As the various secrets are slowly revealed, Harmonium vividly reveals how the inability of giving narrative to the trauma keeps a trauma alive and lingering. (…) [A Narrative] that (…) will long linger in the spectators mind”.