Posts tagged Japanese movies
Perfect Days: Wim Wenders Deals Full Flush with Simple Toilet Cleaner Tale
By Chris Knight
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The Deer King: Japanese Weaponized Deer and The Fever Dogs of War
Tiny Budgets, Big Ideas: Two Micro-Features Dive Into The Anxious Vortex Of The Times
ReviewJim SlotekIndependent films, Small features, January opening, Delicate State, Charlie Bodin, Paula Rhodes, Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes, Junta Yamaguchi, Japanese movies, Time travel movies, Films abour pregnancy, Films about pregnancy, Makoto Ueda
Drive My Car: A Tender, Tough Road Trip Via a Haruki Murakami Tale
ReviewJim SlotekJapanese movies, Oscar contender, Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Haruki Murakami, Takamasa Oe, Hidetoshi Nichijima, Masaki Okada, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima
They Say Nothing Stays the Same: Meditative Character Study Both Elusive and Affecting
By Karen Gordon
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The Real Thing: Japan’s Cannes Contender Follows the Needy Woman of Man’s Dreams
First Love: Provocateur Takashi Miike serves up betrayal, vengeance, and murder in his most crowd-pleasing film
Isle of Dogs: Wes Anderson's crazily imaginative slobbery belly-rub of a movie
ReviewJim SlotekWes Anderson, Dogs, Japanese movies, stop motion animation, Akira Kurosawa, Taiko drumming, Alexandre Desplat, Bill Murray, Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig