Crafting a character study about an objectively “bad” person is a tough row to hoe. On one hand, pathology can help an audience understand a character’s behavior as having a root cause,…
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Japan, over the past few years, has been under the radar for its low fertility rates. It has often been cited that economic insecurity is the prime reason for this demographic outage.…
Kakekomi (2018): A tale of oppression, endurance, and refuge For someone who hasn’t seen much of Japanese Cinema or attended any Japanese film festival – I have only seen Kurosawa’s Dreams really…
Ozu-esque is the word that sprang to my mind when watching Hirokazu Kore-eda’s culturally specific yet emotionally relatable nuanced family dramas for the first time. Like Mr. Yasujiro Ozu, Kore-eda goes for…
As a child, one dreams of what they want to be when they grow up. While getting to that point takes all kinds of pit-stops, sometimes your life turns out differently from what you’ve imagined. Kore-eda himself confesses that he wanted to be a successful writer and not a film-maker and somehow things didn’t work his way. After the Storm tells us that it’s totally okay to have failed at what you wanted to be because life doesn’t end there. What’s most important is to not undo the past, but correct all the imperfections that hinder the present.