Japan
In this report from NYAFF, Lee Jutton takes a look at Mountain Onion, Nomad and Mountain Woman!
The NY Asian Film Festival provides movie lovers in the tri-state area with a great opportunity to see films across a wide range of genres.
Street Fighter reminds us that even a bad movie can be loads of fun and make you feel like a little kid again.
Although it fits squarely into his oeuvre following another plucky heroine coming of age in Japan, it has some very meaningful inspiration.
A fitting precursor to his later masterworks, Passion is guaranteed to whet one’s appetite for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s next movie, whenever that may be.
The most positive praise that can be bestowed on The Super Mario Bros Movie is that it’s not as bad as 1993’s Super Mario Bros.
While Still the Water feels pleasant, its existential questions are frustratingly left untraversed by its subtlety.
Away from the hype, Akira fares very, very well, remaining the Rosetta stone for so much sci-fi, body horror, and cyberpunk today.
Overall it may fall short, but In the Realm of the Senses is a beautiful-looking film with a calming yet haunting score that touches on some urgent themes.
Onoda’s story, as exceptional as it may be, embodies the plight of every soldier sent to fight and die.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island transforms a forgotten Gundam episode into one of the most exciting Gundam movies ever.
Missing retains the feeling of a J-horror, slowly building the intensity of its mystery while examining the potential compassion and deliverance of death.
Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend begins with all of its cards on the table, from the first scene it shocks and only increases from there.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2009 fantasy-romance Air Doll is an introspective film where a blow-up doll begins to turn into a living woman.