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With films like “Destruction Babies” and “Miyamoto”, Tetsuya Mariko has really left an impact in the Japanese movie industry during the latest years, as one of the few remaining directors of ‘tense cinema', as established by directors such as Takashi Miike, Sion Sono, Toshiaki Toyoda and Shinya Tsukamoto. Now, with “Before Anyone Else”, he attempts to take his talents outside Japan, to the US specifically, hopefully in a new endeavor and not because he cannot find space in his home country anymore.
Before Anyone Else is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
In black-and-white and low definition, the movie begins with a young woman driving a car, getting out of it, and then the camera turning to the backseat, showing a baby sitting there. The next cut shows a completely different scene, in color this time, where a group of four Americans and Asian Americans break into a pawn shop.
Before Anyone Else is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
In black-and-white and low definition, the movie begins with a young woman driving a car, getting out of it, and then the camera turning to the backseat, showing a baby sitting there. The next cut shows a completely different scene, in color this time, where a group of four Americans and Asian Americans break into a pawn shop.
- 3/3/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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Daisuke Miyazaki is a filmmaker that does not stay still, as his cinematic style seems to change with each new effort. The same applies to “Videophobia”, a black-and-white film set in the darkest corners of Osaka, which deals with a number of rarely depicted issues, in a rather unique way.
“Videophobia” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The story revolves around Ai, a young Korean-Japanese woman who has returned to Osaka from Tokyo and is living in the local Koreatown, in the same house with a number of other women. Her life seems to lead nowhere, since she spends her days in a part-time job as a mascot in a shopping street, her afternoons taking acting classes, and her nights having cyber-sex or in nightclubs. During one of her visits to a night club, she meets a young man and ends up having sex in his apartment. A few days later however,...
“Videophobia” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
The story revolves around Ai, a young Korean-Japanese woman who has returned to Osaka from Tokyo and is living in the local Koreatown, in the same house with a number of other women. Her life seems to lead nowhere, since she spends her days in a part-time job as a mascot in a shopping street, her afternoons taking acting classes, and her nights having cyber-sex or in nightclubs. During one of her visits to a night club, she meets a young man and ends up having sex in his apartment. A few days later however,...
- 3/8/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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