“Sasaki in My Mind” (2020) – One day, the final goodbye will come. It’ll be a goodbye to your own self.
Bored. Boring. It’s something that comes back in a variety of ways and places during the movie’s near two hour run. Whether it’s main lead Ishii Yuji’s (Fujiwara Kisetsu) existence read more
“Hot Gimmick: Boy Meets Girl” (2019) – An exaggerated trip through the mess of teenagehood
Dubbed as a coming-of-age, teen romance drama, Hot Gimmick is a film funneled down to a single character’s journey on discovering herself. From a shoujo manga written by Aihara Miki read more
Food for Thought: “Gekijo” (2020)
Every now and then a movie appears I just can’t write a review on. The reason? Generally it just means that there’s way too much to talk about, and that read more
“Tomodachi Game” (2017) – Are friends really worth getting in debt over? [Drama + Movies]
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Yamaguchi Mikoto’s Tomodachi Game might not be one of the most known manga series – despite first launching in December 2013 and still continuing now – but it managed to receive not read more
“Kingdom” (2019) – China’s Warring States period in a seinen LA jacket
Back in 2016 Hara Yasuhisa’s Kingdom sent a shockwave through the live action adaptation scene with the release of a 3 minute LA short to commemorate the further release of the read more
“12nin no Shinitai Kodomotachi” (2019) – a murder mystery gone a different route
What happens when you put 12 suicidal teens in a building together, when all they hope for is never coming back? 12nin no Shinitai Kodomotachi (12nin), or literally Twelve Children Who read more
“Ajin: Demi-Human” (2017) – What would you do if you’d become immortal overnight?
Ajin: Demi-Human is a manga series by Sakurai Gamon, which was also adapted into two anime seasons and multiple animated movies before. Since I have not watched nor read anything of read more
“Gyakko no Koro” (2017) – treading the fine line between flow and impulse
Japan and their indie movies. It’ll always be an interesting combination, and a thing I’ll gladly accept more of any day. Gyakko no Koro, also known as The Time of read more