A Bad Summer (2025) review [Japannual 2025]

Hideo Jojo offers a compelling exploration of poverty within the Japanese societal field as well as the the structural possibility of exploiting the welfare system for one’s own gain.

Straying (2022) review [Camera Japan 2022]

A pleasant and charming exploration of the fact that, within the game of love and romance and beyond, subjects often rely on acting-out to reveal to the other what they cannot put into signifiers.

A Crimson Star (2018) review

“Without a doubt one of the most finest examples, if not the best, of subject-driven narratives to come out this year.”