©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Memorizu : Yuta arrives at a remote rural town in the island of Kyushu to take care of his fastidious father-in-law Makoto, a photographer recovering from a leg fracture. While assisting at Makoto’s traditional photo studio, where portraits are carefully composed to endure, Yuta stays connected to his wife Yuki and…
©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Our everyday lives are made up of countless small moments that slowly gather over time. Most of them are forgotten because they seem ordinary and insignificant. Lacking the drama of major events, they fade almost as soon as they occur. In great films such as Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” (2023) Jim…
During the last few years, director Hideaki Anno has successfully re-defined Japanese monsters/heroes through the Shin series. “Shin Godzilla” was a satire of Japanese politics, a reflection on the March 11 disasters. “Shin Ultraman” — which retained Anno as the mastermind — had the directorial duties passed onto Shinji Higuchi, his frequent collaborator, and this…
When it comes to history, historians explain what they know, but there are hundreds of thousands of people other than what is written about in the history books. Director Masaaki Yuasa understands such an idea and it inspires as fantastic a film as “Inu-oh.” Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-oh” brings to life an anime based on “The Tale…
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