River Returns (2025) review [Nippon Connection 2025]

Masakazu Kaneko convinces the spectator to go beyond the consumptive way of interacting with the other and have more eye and ear for the subjectivity of the Other.    

Revolution +1 (2022) Review

Masao Adachi delivers an important political statement that, by offering an evocative sketch of Tetsuya Yamagami’s tragic trajectory, invites the Japanese spectator to question his own passivity towards the political Other.

A Far Shore (2022) review

A highly engaging story that explores the destructive effects of a societal field that fails to reach out to subjects-in-need.