The Japanese Film Festival Magazine is having a partnership with Moosic Lab, by showing selected films from the 2017-2018 editions. The Lab is a Japanese...
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After his multi-awarded debut, “Excited Death“, Kohei Inoue returns to Magazine Japanese Film Festival with his second feature, where he, once...
Kanako Seri (played by Ryo Matsuura) is a guitarist in a band of three. As part of her commute, she boards a bus and gets caught up in a melody hummed by an...
The Heisei era, which lasted from January 8, 1989 to April 30, 2019, and particularly its ending, has been a source for much discourse and analysis, but also...
In 2012, the Japanese Film Festival Magazine launched a unique movie competition called “Moosic Lab”. Upcoming directors are encouraged to...
“Highschooler Akino loves her schoolmate Okada, but Okada has a girlfriend called Nacchan. While Akino is busy being jealous of Nacchan to the point of...
Classroom dynamics in the wake of a tragedy are ably explored in director Yuho Ishibashi's “Sayounara”. It is based on a SNS manga of the same name by the...
In his directorial debut “Excited Death”, Kohei Inoue unites two stalkers – Namiko (whose name translates as “Average Child”) and...
About the Film A delicate yet deeply felt portrait of that ephemeral time of life that is adolescence, the 60-minute featurette “Moonless Dawn” is a young work...
Teenage angst, bullying and loneliness are the central puzzle pieces of Yuka Eda's directorial debut “Girls' Encounter” whose story is set in the...
