JAPAN CUTS Review: Genta Matsugami’s DEMOLITION GIRL Goes Out Swinging
Debut director Genta Matsugami takes the mantle this year with a striking teen drama in Demolition Girl. The film has already garnered some critical and awarded acclaim since beginning a festival run since late last year ahead of its release this August. Demotlition Girl serves up a strong and compelling contemplative focus on a number of things standing in the way of a young high school girl. She’s looking to get out in the world, but with a horde of obstacles and strict societal conventions impeding her, it takes an underlying emotional toll that magnifies just why it is we root for her in the first place. Initially resigned to getting a job after graduation, Cocoa (Aya Kitai) comes to see an opportunity to attend college in Tokyo. She’d been working part time selling sausages while also engaging in a secret trade as a foot fetish video star. Except for […]
