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Japan Cuts Review: Takeshi Kogahara’s BIRDLAND Shows What It Means To Be Alive
Takeshi Kogahara’s twenty-minute shortfilm, Birdland, takes an almost chilling look into the life of an elderly man named Koji (Shin Furukawa), who lives by himself, save for his caretaker, Ishida (Tomoko Ikunishi), who tends to his needs.
Japan Cuts Review: Kenji Iwaisawa’s ON-GAKU: OUR SOUND, Shows How To Find One
Kenji Iwaisawa’s animated manga adaptation, On-Gaku: Our Sound, takes a quirky, awkwardly comedic journey into the lives of a trio of delinquent high schoolers, Ota, Asakura, and their leader, Kenji. Their reputations precede them as a group to be feared, with Kenji heralded as the master of the spaghetti fist – really it doesn’t take much for Kenji to chase anyone away, apart from entering the room.
Japan Cuts Review: Toshiaki Toyoda’s WOLF’S CALLING Sounds An Intrinsic Battle Cry
Director Toshiaki Toyoda’s new narrative shortfilm, Wolf’s Calling, clocks in at sixteen minutes, but covers an intriguing and vast bit of ground for its simplistic message, with music as its backdrop.
Japan Cuts Review: TOKYO GIRL Gives You Eight Montage Minutes Of Youthful Simplicity
In part, programming for the Japan Cuts shortfilm documentary premiere of Nebiro Hashimoto’s Tokyo Girl describes it as “a maximum-speed, sonic-visual collage…”. Its not everyday there’s an eight-minute documentary of this kind, and yet the pace at which its delivered is more than properly suited.
Japan Cuts Review: Naoki Murahashi’s EXTRO Is A Whimsically Entertaining Love Letter To Extras
Naoki Murahashi’s new feature mockumentary, Extro, doesn’t feel like one at first, and that speaks to the brilliance of it. The featured actors are largely playing satirized versions of themselves, and personally, it took until around the sixteen minute mark so for that fact to settle in with the geniusness already in progress.
Japan Cuts Review: Yu Araki’s FUEL Is Ambient ASMR Food For The Soul
Every now and then, I personally enjoy a good, calming session with certain kinds of YouTube videos, from painting tutorials to chiropractic videos, or even for minutes at a time listening to chillhop during the day or at night. It helps to stave off overload on the nerves from the daily goings-on, from overbearing loquacious of people and television news to constant noise pollution in a commercial street.
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