The final part of “The Hakodate Trilogy” based on the writings of Yasushi Sato, Nobuhiro Yamashita’s “Over the Fence”...
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By Shikhar Verma An eerie, almost dreamlike score follows us through the life of Shiraiwa (Joe Odagiri) as his monotonous routine of paddling across the town...
By Kyriacos Kyriacou His mother’s funeral forces Takeru Hayakawa (Jo Odagiri) to return back to his hometown from Tokyo where he works. By the time he...
It is fair to say that Hirokazu Koreeda is a master of the sentimental family drama, with earlier films such as “Nobody Knows” (2004) and his...
Joe Odagiri is the rebel face of Japanese Cinema since the early 2000s. At the Venice Film Festival, the actor known from blockbusters like “World of...
“The Great Passage” was the film that most of the Japanese film competitions selected as the best for 2013, and the official selection for the Best Foreign...
After Lou Ye was the subject of controversy regarding his previous film, “Shadow Play” (it almost didn’t secure the censors’ board...
“I've always had lots of dreams when I sleep. The dreams have always been about the future.”
