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...
Thicker Than Water (Japan, 2018) [JAPAN CUTS 2018]
Keisuke Yoshida’s feature Thicker Than Water is a delightful, dramatic, and relatable film – even for this reviewer, an only child. Kazunari (Masataka Kubota) is...
Hime-anole (Japan, 2016) [JFF2016AU]
To be perfectly honest, I actually didn’t want to review Hime-anole. Not because it’s bad, as it is far from it. I didn’t want to...