Best Japanese Movies of the 2010s
Again, I have not really seen enough of these outside of a festival environment to do a best and worst list. Outrage Coda (2017) Beat Takeshi is still turning out solid movies and I didn’t
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Directors: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi Starring: Hiroki Hasegawa, Hideki Akasaka, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Ohsugi, Akira Emoto, Satomi Ishihara, Kengo Kôra, Mikako Ichikawa Yes, Godzilla has returned. No, it is not like any other Godzilla movie
QAGOMA – Cult Japan – All the trailers
I saw this program was on at QAGOMA this year, I will probably not go up for any screenings having seen most of them but I would recommend going to see the films if you
MIFF 2014 – The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
Director: Isao Takahata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDrkokymLQ Based on the folk story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter we see a simple bamboo cutter finding a tiny girl inside a bamboo stalk, who turns into a baby once
MIFF 2014: Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013)
Director: Shion Sono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JfW4oNFAPI Movies about making a movie are so cliché now that you may as well make them out as joke from the start, which is what this film does and is not