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ACA Cinema Project: Ripples, A Film Portraying Thoughts Like Drops Of Water Inundating Our Oceanic Moods

The ACA Cinema Project Japan features the film Ripples, written and directed by Naoko Ogigami. The film focuses on the delicate phase of a woman, as middle-age becomes the time to make a balance of her life. Yoriko Sudo (Mariko Tsutsui) finds comfort in the Green Life Water Society (Ryokumei-kai), based on the new religious…

Japan Cuts: Wandering, A Devastatingly Beautiful Film About Society’s Obsession With Labels

The line-up for the 2023 edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film includes the film Wandering, also released with the title The Wandering Moon. The movie directed by Lee Sang-il is based on the novel Rurou no Tsuki by Yuu Nagira, winner of 17th Japan Booksellers’ Award in 2020. Fate brings together two…

NYAFF : “Egoist” / Interview with Actor Ryohei Suzuki and Director Daishi Matsunaga

Synopsis : A poignant story of love, loss, self-sacrifice and discovery, Daishi Matsunaga’s heralded new film is inspired by the seminal semi-autobiographical novel by Makoto Takayama. The first Japanese production with both an LGBTQ+ inclusive director and an intimacy choreographer, Egoist features two of Japan’s biggest movie stars in very compromising positions. Suffused with delicacy…