Bagmati River (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Films about characters processing grief are common and are usually totally fictional. A memorable romance between Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze’s characters was sustained via...
Random Call (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
We may live in an interconnected world with many ways of easily reaching out to each other but the demands of careers and life in...
The Girl on a Bulldozer (South Korea, 2021) [OAFF 2022]
Now, here’s a movie that lives up to its title and beyond. The Girl on a Bulldozer is another addition in the long line of...
Too Cool to Kill (China, 2022)
Xing Wenxiong’s remake of the Japanese comedy The Magic Hour (2008) by Koki Mitani stars Wei Xiang as Wei Chenggong, a bit-part actor with dreams...
Blue (Japan, 2021) [JFTFP 2022]
The violent bloody sport of men’s boxing has always been intertwined with an aspirational ideal of creating the desirable virile male body. The player’s sense...
The House of the Lost on the Cape (Japan, 2021) [JFTFP 2022]
On March 3, 2011, the Oshika Peninsula of the Tohoku Region in Japan became the site of one of the most devastating earthquakes in recent...
The Sound of Grass (Japan, 2021) [JFTFP 2022]
The loneliness of a long-distance runner forms the basis of The Sound of Grass, a gentle film about a man striving to find peace from...
Crazy Thunder Road (Japan, 1980)
Crazy Thunder Road was the punk filmmaker Sogo Ishii’s college graduation project. Toei Studios were so impressed with the film that they picked it up...
Hiruko the Goblin (Japan, 1991)
Shinya Tsukamoto’s Hiruko the Goblin is an exciting introduction to the Japanese body horror genre. As a film, it tries to be both serious in...
Memoria (Colombia/Thailand, 2021)
Clichéd orientalist tropes of reincarnations, perceived memories of past actions and guilts exotically revisited and generously hallucinated about, as one lay seriously ill, awaiting their...