Machiko Ono and Yuki Katayama breathe extra-ordinary life and realism into the pain, the hopes, the white lies, the tears, the smiles, and the anger of contemporary female subjects subjected to a phallically-structured societal system. Highly recommended.
Tag: Kyusaku Shimada
Not Quite Dead Yet (2020) Review
While Not Quite Dead Yet is about the importance of communication and about assuming a desire as subject, Hamasaki’s narrative delivers its message in manner that is, when all is said and done, not alive enough.
Blue Hour (2019) review [Japannual 2019]
“With her impressive and touching debut, Yuko Hakota reveals herself as one very promising director. “
psycho-cinematography 