Penalty Loop (2024) review [Nippon Connection 2024]

The way Araki resolves the narrative’s thematical questions concerning vengeance and the working-through of trauma will divide spectators

Motherhood (2022)

An enjoyable and engaging exploration of the destructive impact of a subject’s fixation on gaining the (m)Other’s love and that the often-ignored truth that becoming a mother is not that self-evident.

Ribbon (2022) review

Non, in short, proves with her first feature film that she has a future as screenwriter and director.

Asako I & II (2018) review

“(The narrative) breaths much needed fresh air into the rather stale genre of Japanese romance narrative”