NYAFF Review: Nobuhiro Yamashita’s HARD-CORE Spotlights The Mechanics Of Being Alive

Nobuhiro Yamashita takes on artful drama with a sci-fi twist in Hard-Core, based on Takashi Imashiro’s 1993 manga, and marking Yamashita’s own debut foray into sci-fi. It’s pretty much a slow-burn process to work through but the characters in their iteration here are made interesting enough that you’re compelled for the most part to stick with it to the end.

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