Tag: Hirobumi Watanabe

There are two ways to experience the eagerly-anticipated digital edition of the Far East Film Festival, which will be opening at 21.00 on Friday the...

There is a base materiality to Hirobumi Watanabe’s Cry, the story of a pig handler (played by the director himself) is told in circles: He...

Although many of Japanese indie director Hirobumi Watanabe’s films have mixed his own experiences with the film protagonist’s world, his fifth feature is his most...

Receiving its world premiere as the closing film of the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020, Kamata Prelude is an omnibus movie split between four different...

Seemingly isolated from the real world, sleepy Otawara lies some 100 miles north of Tokyo in Tochigi Prefecture. It is a purgatorial realm confining its...

Honda (Gaku Imamura) is a silent man, who spends his days working at a small electronics company, and walking his dog Ringo. When Paul McCartney’s...