A rather experimental approach that focuses on both the cenote and the people living around them.
Tag - Article Films
Funahashi's documentary/stage-play/feature approach manages to communicate the sexual harassment issue in the best fashion.
Shooting a film that presents life exclusively from the perspective of a woman, and even more of a 30+ one, is not exactly the rule in Japanese cinema, and...
A real-life group that lived in the mountains of Japan, the legendary Sanka tribe existed as nomads for decades before suddenly disappearing in the 1960s...
Hirobumi Watanabe has created a cinematic style that can be easily described as trademark. His films are in black and white, are shot in his home county...
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Especially associated with the...
Films about various kinds of dystopias have been one of the recent trends of international cinema, although the Japanese have indulged in the genre for decades...
After his win with “Poolside Man” in the Japanese Cinema Splash section in the 2016 Tokyo Film Festival, Hirobumi Watanabe has gone on a creative spree that...
Let me start (once more) with a personal note. I have an issue with reviewing “Book, Paper, Scissors”. The issue is that I love documentaries and I love books...
The Fukushima Disaster and its consequences have been a theme for a number of documentaries, movies and even TV shows (“Dark Tourist” comes to mind). However...