Okita Shuichi’s latest is a touching and affectionate work on a year in the life of a young man, Yokomichi Yonosuke (Kora Kengo), set during Japan’s bubble economy. The year in question is 1987, Yonosuke’s first year in college in Tokyo. What at first glance seems unwieldy and na... Read More »
On one level, Toyoda Toshiaki’s I’m Flash! is about a group of hit men hired to protect the guru of a cult, Yoshino Lui (Fujiwara Tatsuya), following his involvement in a DUI accident that left one man dead and Yoshino’s female passenger in a coma. When Yoshino wants to quit his ... Read More »
Lesson of the Evil is Miike Takashi’s return to the horror genre for which he first became internationally, notoriously, and reductively known with his 1999 film Audition. While vastly different in subject and setting, both films deal with killers. Both films are atmospheric, bro... Read More »
