“Ishii’s latest succeeds in showing, in a powerful and touching manner, the possibility of intercultural friendship and romance.”
Tag: Sosuke Ikematsu
Miyamoto (2019) review [Japannual 2020]
“A gripping and surprisingly moving exploration of how one sometimes needs to perform an act in the real in order to be able to reestablish one’s subject in an imaginary position and reaffirm the symbolic inter-subjective commitment one has made.”
Almost a Miracle (2019) review [Fantasia Film Festival 2019]
“One of most original narratives about coming-into-being and that beautiful evil little thing called love to be released in recent years.”
Zan/killing (2018) review
“One of the Tsukamoto’s most accomplished narratives.”
We Are Little Zombies (2019) Review
“Nagahisa has earned himself the honour to be considered as one of the most promising directors of Japan today.”
Destruction Babies (2016) review
“A wonderful but slightly disturbing confrontation with violent enjoyment.”
A story of Yonosuke (2013) review
a magnificent and unforgettable encounter not only with Yonosuke, but also with the importance of the encounter as such and the way by which true encounters affect the subject.
The Tokyo Night sky is always the densest shade of blue (2017) Review [Screening at Fantasia Film Festival]
But even if the narrative is poetically inconsistent on a cinematographical level, there is still a lot to like about the lyricism of speech and the eloquence in which two lost souls are able to find each other as subject.
