What a strange, unpredictable film Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has made to follow his rapturously received international breakthrough, Drive My Car. While Evil Does Not Exist (Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai) reins in the symphonic expansiveness of its predecessor, this more compact slow-burn drama builds its own hypnotic, changeable rhythms, along with a quiet sense of dread that sneaks up on you just as people on both sides of a conflict appear to be working toward common ground — whatever that’s worth. An ending that pushes its ambiguousness to confounding lengths will be a deal-breaker for some, but this haunting stealth thriller about violations of nature is a work of undeniable power.
If the shadow of Chekhov stretched elegantly over Drive My Car, the Japanese writer-director’s new film might almost be said to have a kinship with Ibsen, its tensions around the potential contamination of a water supply and the heated responses...
If the shadow of Chekhov stretched elegantly over Drive My Car, the Japanese writer-director’s new film might almost be said to have a kinship with Ibsen, its tensions around the potential contamination of a water supply and the heated responses...
- 9/4/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Miki (Miku Uehara) has just started working at a production company which produces variety TV programs. She is an assistant director on the 30-minute late night local TV show “This City and Me”, which features good points about the town. One day Miki goes out drinking with the director and producer, but ends up complaining about the show. The director Nakayama (Yoshinori Miyata) tells her to try and direct the show herself putting her in charge of the on-the-street interviews. Miki grabs this opportunity by the horns and goes out looking for interesting people on the streets.
(Source: Okinawa International Movie Festival 2019)
This film also goes by the title This City and Me and was screened at the 11th Okinawa International Movie Festival in 2019. It is written, edited and directed by Kazuo Nagai based on his own true story of personal growth. Famous Swedish-Japanese TV personality LiLiCo appears as herself.
(Source: Okinawa International Movie Festival 2019)
This film also goes by the title This City and Me and was screened at the 11th Okinawa International Movie Festival in 2019. It is written, edited and directed by Kazuo Nagai based on his own true story of personal growth. Famous Swedish-Japanese TV personality LiLiCo appears as herself.
- 2/28/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Masamichi Kawata’s graduation movie “The Horny Taxi” is a bizarre sex comedy. The flick premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2017.
“The Horny Taxi” is screening at Japan-Filmfest Hamburg
Taneno (Shinya Orikasa) is an upright policeman who seems to have made it his main goal in life to eradicate illicit sex and possibly pleasure as a whole. He is quiet and stoic. In a word, he is a prude. Coming home on his wedding anniversary, he catches his wife Mitsuko (Sasa Handa) masturbating with a huge Okinawan bitter melon. In a moment of madness, he uses the natural dildo to “slay” his shocked wife. Unbeknownst to him, his action is seen by his obsessed-with-sex, slacker colleague Onari (Hideyuki Arai) who has been peeking on Mitsuko pleasuring herself.
Fast forward two years and Taneno is released from jail but due to his infamy as the goya samurai, seems...
“The Horny Taxi” is screening at Japan-Filmfest Hamburg
Taneno (Shinya Orikasa) is an upright policeman who seems to have made it his main goal in life to eradicate illicit sex and possibly pleasure as a whole. He is quiet and stoic. In a word, he is a prude. Coming home on his wedding anniversary, he catches his wife Mitsuko (Sasa Handa) masturbating with a huge Okinawan bitter melon. In a moment of madness, he uses the natural dildo to “slay” his shocked wife. Unbeknownst to him, his action is seen by his obsessed-with-sex, slacker colleague Onari (Hideyuki Arai) who has been peeking on Mitsuko pleasuring herself.
Fast forward two years and Taneno is released from jail but due to his infamy as the goya samurai, seems...
- 8/30/2020
- by martin
- AsianMoviePulse
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