The Wonder of a Summer Day (Japan, 2022) [OAFF 2022]
Sibling relationships are complicated, even when they don’t have to be. Sometimes they overwhelm you, and sometimes they make you feel alone and isolated and...
Interview with Yusaku Matsumoto, Director of Bagmati River [OAFF 2022]
Bagmati River received its world premiere at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022. It is the latest work from director Yusaku Matsumoto, a talent who...
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...
Interview with Riki Ohkanda, Director of Random Call [OAFF 2022]
Hailing from Chicago and now living in Tokyo, Hungarian-American filmmaker Riki Ohkanda works in the Japanese television and film industries where she has accrued credits...
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...