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Snowdrop (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A complex character portrait that touchingly illustrates how easy it is to misrecognize the logic of the subject-supposed-to-be-in-need.

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a month ago • Subscribe

Suton (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

Rikako Watanabe’s narrative succeeds to echo the unvocalized ‘pandemic’ truth of many.

psycho-cinematography

Mar 2, 2024 • Subscribe

Amalock (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A narrative that fluidly combines comedy and tragedy to deliver an experience of smiles and tears.

psycho-cinematography

Mar 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Wash Away (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A pleasant narrative that offers a fresh but familiar exploration of the subject’s fundamental desire for recognition/love and the problematic yet medicative function of consumption.

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Mar 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Sumiko 22 (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A subtle but playful narrative about a subject who slowly tries to crawl out the hole of emptiness and diminished self-worth.

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Mar 14, 2024 • Subscribe

Sumiko

Blue Imagine (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

A powerful reminder of the sexual transgressions that structurally plague the Japanese film industry

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Faraway Family (2023) review [OAFF 2024]

A very touching narrative that explores the frail position of the father and how his structural failure can cause subjective struggles and inhibitions.

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23 days ago • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Ririka of the Star (2024) review [OAFF 2024] 

A narrative that does not merely emphasize the beauty of moving female body, but reveals that such beauty can change subjects.

psycho-cinematography

Mar 11, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Perfect・Nervous (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

An exquisitely crafted narrative that touchingly shows that a simple encounter, a simple exchange of signifiers, can turn a wish to die into a desire to life.

psycho-cinematography

Mar 26, 2024 • Subscribe

Performing Kaoru’s Funeral (2023) review [OAFF 2024]

Yuasa’s narrative shows that the unavoidable presence of death during a funeral can allow a subject to re-route his own trajectory.

psycho-cinematography

21 days ago • Subscribe

Scent of Danger

detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,

ボクの事件簿

Sep 17, 2021 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: On a Boat (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

The exploration of the frail stability of an obsessional neurotic does not miss its impact on the spectator.

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Mar 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Melody

Ask For The Moon (2022) review [OAFF 2024]

A satisfying narrative that illustrates how the subject’s ego is but a response to his complexes and struggles.

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Mar 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Memories of His Scent においが眠るまで Director: Kahori Higashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024]

Memories of His Scent においが眠るまで, by director Kahori Higashi, is a gentle and melancholy tale of a teenage girl searching for her late father through smell and visiting…

Genkinahito

Mar 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Popcorn Pulse 195: Scent of Cocaine

Hey there everyone, have you ever just felt so good? Like really so good? Like that the sun could go nova and wipe all life off the face…

Anime Pulse

Apr 18, 2023 • Subscribe

Ys: Memories of Celceta Review Link

Another Ys review by yours truly. Link HERE.

The Yuri Empire

Aug 3, 2020 • Subscribe

Library Wars: Book of Memories Review

After watching the first movie of Library Wars, I always wanted to check out the sequel. Little did I know that their was a TV […]

Sirius Writes

Apr 23, 2020 • Subscribe

Library Wars: Book of Memories Review

After watching the first movie of Library Wars, I always wanted to check out the sequel. Little did I know that their was a TV special released before…

Sirius Writes

Apr 23, 2020 • Subscribe

Library Wars: Book of Memories Review

After watching the first movie of Library Wars, I always wanted to check out the sequel. Little did I know that their was a TV special released before…

Sirius Writes

Apr 23, 2020 • Subscribe

Library Wars: Book of Memories Review

After watching the first movie of Library Wars, I always wanted to check out the sequel. Little did I know that their was a TV special released before…

Sirius Writes

Apr 23, 2020 • Subscribe

Horimiya: Piece – 10 – Scent of a Soulmate

This week we’re (re-?) introduced to Watabe, Izumi’s not-so-secret admirer. He liked the longer-haired, glasses-wearing Izumi, but doesn’t mind this new fun-loving version. One pe…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Sep 4, 2023 • Subscribe

Horimiya

Primal Playthrough: Episode 6- Scent of Prey 

Scent of Prey is a unique episode as well as a satisfying conclusion to Rage of the Ape-Men, at least when it came to Fang’s fate. But I never noticed…

Hanime on Anime

Jan 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Memories of Love

Included with the Blu-Ray/DVD of ID:INVADED. Written by Maijo Otaro and voiced by the same voice actors, with the addition of Hondo Kaede. Link: MP3/FLAC. Ayako was the…

Sword Translations

Oct 30, 2020 • Subscribe

Cafune (2023) review [OAFF 2023]

A very strong debut by Haruki Kinemura.

psycho-cinematography

Mar 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Piofiore: Fated Memories – Review

Hi folks, today I bring you my first Otome game review. Piofiore: Fated Memories is an Otome visual novel, which came out in Japanese in 2018 as Piofiore No…

Blisscast

Dec 18, 2020 • Subscribe

Piofiore: Fated Memories Review

Follow Liliana, as she is pulled into a turf war between three of Burlone's most powerful crime families in the otome, Piofiore Fated Memories.

Blerdy Otome

Sep 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Memories (1995) [Anime Review]

Memories; or, Space Butterfly      Memories aren't an escape! I think it would be fitting to begin this review by stating that After Akira t...

Watching Asia Film Reviews

May 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Memory (ONA), Metropolis

Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru Episode 14 Review: Scent of Secrets

In Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru Episode 14, our protagonists embark on another labyrinthine adventure filled with intrigue and character development. As the

Zerogaya-kun Anime Review Blog

Oct 8, 2023 • Subscribe

Reign of the Seven Spellblades

The Burden Of The Past (2023) review [OAFF 2023]

With his latest drama film, Funahashi’s delivers a contender for this year’s best Japanese film.

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Mar 13, 2023 • Subscribe

The Light Of The Spring (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

“An experimental ‘dramamentary’ that succeeds to charm and touch the spectator with its rich mundane and genuine interactions.”

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Mar 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Sanka: Nomads of the Mountains (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

“A visually enticing narrative that elegantly explores the unresolvable tension between the societal Other and the subject.”

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Apr 8, 2022 • Subscribe

Ys: Memories of Celceta

Ys: Memories of Celceta is an action JRPG developed by Falcom. Ys is an action RPG series with a really long and somewhat complicated history. This game may…

Hexa Blog

Jul 13, 2023 • Subscribe

Sentimental Memories of Unico

A lovely trip down memory lane for what led to the My Unico Fans website's creation.

My Unico Fans

Apr 17, 2023 • Subscribe

Unico

Goto-san (2021) review [OAFF 2021]

“Gokan expertly reveals the position of the freeter as an attempt to escape the capitalistic machinery but also as a position that most easily falls prey to the…

psycho-cinematography

Apr 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Angry Son (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

“An incredibly rich and deep narrative that not only delivers a satisfying coming-of-age story but also an elegantly delivered social commentary on some of the frictions marking Japanese…

psycho-cinematography

Mar 18, 2022 • Subscribe

Random Call (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

Ohkanda’s narrative proves that one does not need a big budget to deliver a narrative that touches the spectator.

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Apr 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Melting Sounds (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

“Kahori Higashi’s debut is impressive.”

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Apr 14, 2022 • Subscribe

Shin | Character Review | Amnesia: Memories

A rude boy with a sweet secret: Shin was your childhood-friend-turned-lover until you lost your memories after an “accident” involving a cliff…

Sweet & Spicy | Otome Game Reviews

Nov 19, 2022 • Subscribe

Idea

Anime Review #111: Plastic Memories

I… don’t even know how to begin this opening paragraph. Usually I try to explain how I came to know about this series, be it through a friend,…

The Traditional Catholic Weeb

Nov 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Plastic Memories

Memories of Britian's Anime Boom

  June 2023 KINO NO ANIME: Memories of Britian's Anime Boom | Documentary (Mins 45.55) From the mid 1980's to the early to mid 1990's. [ NOT...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

Jun 7, 2023 • Subscribe

Bong Joonho: Memories of Murder

The Major League Baseball draft is happening as I type this, and it is my only hope...

Taiiku Podcast

Jul 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Issue #69: Library of Memories

Getting into a round-up of great new seiyuu albums, Down Town Boogie Woogie Band's enduring #1 and my ongoing research into anison

This Side of Japan

Jul 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Bong Joonho: Memories of Murder

The Major League Baseball draft is happening as I type this, and it is my only hope...

Taiiku Podcast

Jul 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Side by Side (2023) review [OAFF 2023]

A peaceful dream-like visual experience that celebrates both the impact subjects have on each other as well as the manner in which the subject remains opaque to himself…

psycho-cinematography

Mar 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Short Movie Review: Natsuko (2020) [OAFF 2022]

“A splendid debut by Shuna Iijima.”

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Mar 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Sweet Bitter Candy (2021) review [OAFF 2021]

“An amazing exploration of the clash between a sweet youthful romantic desire and the bitter urge of a wounded subject to defend his subjective wounds.”

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Apr 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Our House Party (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

Kawanobe delivers a very touching and emotional story about homosexuality in Japan.

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Apr 11, 2022 • Subscribe

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – 02 – The Scent of Kindness

After an emotional grind of a first episode, it was nice to start the second with some lighter comedy, starting with Tenjirou absolutely insisting on paying someone for materials…

RABUJOI – An Anime Blog

Jan 25, 2021 • Subscribe

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba