Tag: JAPAN CUTS 2021

It’s safe to say that Masashi Yamamoto’s Wonderful Paradise is a nod to the surrealist Luis Bunuel’s eccentricities, especially in The Discreet Charm of the...

The first thing one will notice with The Blue Danube is the deadpan expression from its actors. But this isn’t the deadpan one can usually...

From an outsider’s perspective, the destruction inflicted by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami wiped away whole towns, cities, and lives from the landscape of...

Kaizo Hayashi’s 1986 film, To Sleep So as to Dream, re-emerged like a dimly remembered fantasy onto cinema screens last year after receiving a crowd-funded...

Kosuke Nakahama’s feature directing debut B|B is a short, strange, and utterly vivid concoction, one that rockets along for 77 minutes with a pace akin...

With a mission to marry and unleash the creative talents of filmmakers and musicians, MOOSIC LAB has quickly established itself as one of Japan’s foremost...

Sword fights and time-travel with a pinch cliché teenage love make up Soushi Matsumoto’s latest feature, It’s a Summer Film! A traditional youth romance with...

The opening scene of writer-director Daihachi Yoshida’s latest feature, Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, is a masterclass in crafting a minimalist act and ratcheting up...

School Radio to Major Tom was written and directed by Takuya Chisaka as a third-year training assignment at Nihon University and went on to win...

Mayu Nakamura’s film Among Four of Us may only last 20 minutes but it makes a deep impact. A conversation piece involving three friends reuniting...