Another Okita's tale of a small community populated by gently eccentric characters
Tag - Ryuhei Matsuda
Japanese humor is rather unique, occasionally moving towards intelligent, quirky and deadpan paths, occasionally towards absurd, slapstick or even appalling...
What began with “Pornostar” and “Blue Spring”, found its apogee in “9 Souls“, one of the greatest samples of Japanese indie...
Another excellent sample of Japanese filmmaking, “A Chorus of Angels” implements all the distinct characteristics of the country’s cinema...
Toshiaki Toyoda is an angry man. Angry for the “treatment” he experienced at the hands of the police for the second time, angry about the greed...
After the extremely successful “Rurouni Kenshin”-series, Keishi Otomo returns with a low-key queer drama named “Beneath the Shadow“...
In April 2019, director Toshiaki Toyoda (“Blue Spring” 2001) was arrested for unlawful possession of a handgun. It turned out that the weapon was a...
Ryu Murakami‘s books are strange. They are violent, sensual, absurdly humorous, surrealistic, and hide their comments in an atmosphere of confusion and...
Even though it was originally planned as a trilogy, Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto condensed the three stories into two, both of which centering on the...
