“Jesus (Boku wa Iesu-sama ga kirai ) gets thematically heavy as it reaches its finale. It poses serious questions about the importance of prayers and the existence of God without getting melodramatic.”…
Japan Cuts
Sayaka Kai’s bleak mystery drama, Japan Cuts Red Snow [2019], is a deftly directed film with ample obfuscation to keep you guessing, and with enough darkness to permeate gloom inside the audience. …
Aimi Natsuto’s 77 minutes long love letter to French Cinema ‘Jeux De Plage’ which translates to beach games in English is the story of a day in the lives of a bunch of…
While many from the current generation seek some kind of inexplicable pleasure from destruction, here comes the protagonist of Demolition Girl, a high-school kid who’s shown to be crunching some cans and…
At the time when ‘All the President’s Men’ was released, journalistic integrity as a subject was hardly being used in contemporary films. After its release, there were several films that were made…
Being a protégé under the hands of the legendary Hirokazu Koreeda, Nanako Hirose’s debut feature created quite a stir. It definitely perked up the viewers like me who are ardent admirers of…