All posts tagged "Japanese Cinema"
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Reviews
Monster | Review
November 23, 2023The Children’s Hour: Kore-eda Crafts a Melodramatic Puzzle Returning to his native Japan after venturing out...
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Reviews
Following the Sound | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 6, 2023Not in the Script: Sugita’s New Form of Companionship Takes on Heartaches and Heartbreaks Rewriting the...
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Evil Does Not Exist | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
September 4, 2023The Killing of a Sacred Dear: Hamaguchi Explores Ills of Urbanization Ryūsuke Hamaguchi explores the doctrine...
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Reviews
Love Life | Review
August 11, 2023Love the One You’re With: Fukada Explores Love and Death as Unhappy Accidents The instability of...
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Reviews
Plan 75 | Review
April 19, 2023Aging Disgracefully: Hayakawa Questions Institutional & Internalized Ageism If a septuagenarian falls in a forest and...
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Annual Top Films Lists
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #24. Hayao Miyazaki’s How Do You Live?
January 18, 2023How Do You Live? In the end, The Wind Rises was not the film that would...
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Annual Top Films Lists
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #35. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Kaibutsu
January 17, 2023Kaibutsu Broker filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has been in creative overdrive working on both a series (Makanai:...
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Foreign Film News
Gettin’ Gig Wit It: KimStim is Enceinte with Huang Ji/Ryuji Otsuka’s “Stonewalling”
September 27, 2022Real-life partners and filmmakers Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsukahave been riding the autumn film festival wave...
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Reviews
A Man (Aru Otoko) | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
September 1, 2022The Good Thief: Ishikawa Explores the Tenuous Reality of Identity As its elemental title suggests, Kei...
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Reviews
Forever a Woman: Six Films by Kinuyo Tanaka Retrospective
April 21, 2022One can’t dig too deep in Japan’s cinematic catalogue without confronting the talents of Kinuyo Tanaka....