Movie Review: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
Dang it! This was so close! Cosmic Princess Kaguya! has so many awesome things going for it! WHY AM I YELLING WHEN I HAD A …
Japan
Movie Review: Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
Art imitates art. I’ve really enjoyed that France and Belgium have chosen to learn from Japanese animators, and take that knowledge to their film industry …
Movie Review: Rental Family
I knew this might make a great movie! The minute I saw Conan O’Brien’s hilarious Japanese trip where he hired a Rental Family, I laughed …
Movie Review: Bullet Train Explosion
Every country has their IP. The US has superheroes and video games. India has their ancient texts. The UK has Shakespeare and Austen. And Japan …
Movie Review: The Colors Within
2016-2017 was post Studio Ghibli grandeur from Japan’s animators, producing 3 of the best films of the year. Makoto Shinkai followed up Your Name with …
Movie Review: Golden Kamuy
Adapting a live action version of a Japanese manga is high risk/high reward. If you succeed, you could get something really fun and well like, …
Movie Review: Evil Does Not Exist
Caffeine. If I didn’t know who Ryusuke Hamaguchi was, I would immediately start rolling my eyes as his very deliberate beginning to another one of …
Movie Review: Perfect Days
Instagram and TikTok can really skew perspective sometimes. All these lavish lifestyles, curated photos, public proclamations of love certainly seem like the ideal way to …
Movie Review: Monster (2023)
In the big US corporate world of moviemaking, stories about complex ordinary people aren’t gonna bring in the big bucks, so they only go for …