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. …
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“Atsushi Kasezawa’s documentary ‘A Step Forward’ approaches this devastating sociological subject from the perspective of a middle-aged pastor, Fujiyabu, who rescues and rehabilitates suicidal individuals.” Seppuku (the ritual suicide by disembowelment), the…
Shinya Tsukamoto, the maverick film-maker Quentin Tarantino is obsessed with, burst onto the Japanese cinema scene with his black-and-white, industrial-surrealist body horror, Tetsuo: Iron Man (1989), which is considered as the perfect…