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“Sasaki in My Mind” (2020) – One day, the final goodbye will come. It’ll be a goodbye to your own self.

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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
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“Hot Gimmick: Boy Meets Girl” (2019) – An exaggerated trip through the mess of teenagehood

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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
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“Alice in Borderland” (2020) – Life or Death. Which one are you choosing? [Ep1]

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It's been a long time coming, but it's here. News of the Sato Shinsuke directed adaptation was already revealed back in July 2019, but while
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Food for Thought: “Gekijo” (2020)

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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
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“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
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“Kingdom” (2019) – China’s Warring States period in a seinen LA jacket

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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
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“12nin no Shinitai Kodomotachi” (2019) – a murder mystery gone a different route

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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
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2018 Miscellaneous Japanese Dramas

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