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Ta’ang (China, 2016)
‘Better not to talk about, it’s so painful,’ says one Ta’ang woman at one point in Wang Bing’s most recent documentary about the Ta’ang ethnic group, local to a border zone between the Kokang region […]
Zigeunerweisen (Japan, 1980) [JAPAN CUTS 2017]
Seijun Suzuki has been known for his over-the-top stylistic approach to gangster and yakuza films, most famously with his cult classics Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Branded to Kill (1967). His style, developed over the years […]
Yamato (California) (Japan, 2016) [JAPAN CUTS, 2017]
The screener of Yamato (California) provided for reviewers comes with the request, “Please watch in the loudest volume possible!!” This leads one to expect that Daisuke Miyazaki’s tale of a wannabe rapper is going to be a full […]
on Jul, 20
Summer Lights (France, 2016) [JAPAN CUTS 2017]
Summer Lights comes from the award-winning French filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot. His past work has consisted of non-fiction shorts about war, human rights, and political struggles. He continues to explore these issues here in his first fiction […]
on Jul, 17
Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (Japan, 2017) [JAPAN CUTS 2017]
This might sound like damning with faint praise but, Love and Goodbye and Hawaii is a simple, nicely shot tale of a woman slowly coming to the realisation that a relationship with her ex-boyfriend may […]
on Jul, 16
Hengyoro (Queer Fish Lane) (Japan, 2017) [JAPAN CUTS 2017]
It is challenging to provide a summary for Queer Fish Lane. It is introduced as a work about travelling “chain-play” performers, Tarugani and Papajo, whose art is a fusion of film and theater. Later, it […]
on Jul, 15
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