Japan Cuts added a surprise screening to this year’s lineup: The Day of Destruction, directed by Toshiaki Toyoda (who also submitted...

Today, I finally watched my most highly anticipated Japan Cuts screening of 2020: Special Actors, a zany comedy about a guerrilla theater...

The wonderful weirdness of Labyrinth of Cinema left me feeling a bit mentally exhausted, so I decided to give myself a break by sampling...

After dragging my feet for several days (I’m not ashamed to admit that I found the three-hour running time to be somewhat intimidating),...

Honestly, I wasn’t sure how I should approach watching Tora-san, Wish You Were Here, never mind reviewing it. It was, after all, made to...

For my second Japan Cuts screening of 2020, I decided to stick with the light and fun atmosphere established by On-Gaku: Our Sound. Extro...

This year’s online-only edition of Japan Cuts has officially commenced... and honestly, it’s sort of a mixed blessing. On the one hand,...

Logged into Netflix to watch A Whisker Away, Studio Colorido’s charming followup to the equally enchanting Penguin Highway. The plot...

Ventured out to Metrograph to catch a screening of the gorgeous new 4K restoration of Fruit Chan’s Made in Hong Kong. This stylish,...

Shot/reverse shot is about as basic as film language gets: one character speaks; a second responds, back and forth in perfectly matched...

As has become my custom of late, I would like to elaborate on my favorite scene in Ride Your Wave. Unfortunately, because it occurs near...

[Despite my best efforts, the following review contains MINOR SPOILERS (though most of them are only by implication); consider yourself...

Ventured out to Japan Society to catch a screening of Poem, the third and final installment in director Akio Jissoji’s Buddhist Trilogy...

Although I’m still recovering from a severe cold, I ventured out to Village East Cinema to catch a screening of Keiichi Hara’s The...

My brother gifted me a one-year subscription to the Criterion Channel for Christmas, and since I was stuck in bed with a nasty cold all...

Characters created by H. P. Lovecraft tend to be driven irrevocably mad by incomprehensible cosmic knowledge. Nicolas Cage excels at...

My initial review of Tora-san was already a bit too bloated and unfocused for my standards, but I simply had to rectify my failure to...

I’ve decided to revisit my House of Bamboo review because I somehow forgot to mention that it features one of the most realistically...

Following Rutger Hauer’s death earlier this year, I bought several of his more obscure films, and tonight, I finally got around to...

“Tokyo Stories”, Japan Society’s special showcase of Japanese movies made by foreigners, has entered its final weekend. Despite my...