Review: See You on the Other Side and Tokyo Girl (Japan Cuts Shorts)
Decided to cap off Japan Cuts 2020 with yet another short film double feature: See You on the Other Side: Director Yoko Yamanaka...
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Decided to cap off Japan Cuts 2020 with yet another short film double feature: See You on the Other Side: Director Yoko Yamanaka...
In Tora-san, My Uncle, the forty-second episode of Yoji Yamada’s long-running Tora-san series, the eponymous peddler surrenders the role...
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again, the fifteenth entry in Shochiku’s sprawling Tora-san saga, begins with the eponymous peddler...
Continued to make the most out of Japan Cuts’ online edition with a screening of Mrs. Noisy, a thoroughly engrossing film that spins a...
A huge portion of this year’s Japan Cuts lineup is dedicated to honoring the legacy of the late Nobuhiko Obayashi—painter, pianist,...
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...