A highly engaging story that explores the destructive effects of a societal field that fails to reach out to subjects-in-need.
Tag: Shogen
December (2023) review [Nippon Connection]
A highly moving and emotionally powerful narrative that explores the struggle of a subject to shake of the winter of his subjectivity.
Joint (2021) review [The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme]
Oudai Kojima proves, once again, that the yakuza genre is not dead and that, given the current societal constellation and the various currents within, engaging crime narratives can still be made.
Sexual Drive (2021) [IFFR 2021]
An amazing and unconventional narrative that not only explores the eroticism of the oral drive in an enticing and visually pleasing way, but also succeeds to touch, in a lighthearted way, upon the complexity of sexual desire as such.
Stay (2018) review
A great indie romance film that underlines the very importance for subjects to establish inter-subjective (romantic) relationships.
Okinawan Blue (2019) review
“One of the best visual advertisements for Okinawa of recent years.”
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