Memories of this Scent (2024) review [OAFF 2024] by psycho-cinematography / Anime Blog Tracker

Amalock (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

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

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Suton (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

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

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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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Blue Imagine (2024) review [OAFF 2024]

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

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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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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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Memories of His Scent (においが眠るまで, Kahori Higashi, 2024)

A young woman travels Japan looking for the scent of her later father in Kahori Higashi’s gentle summer move.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scent of Danger

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

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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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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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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…

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Manhwa Review | Scent of a Witch by R

In the Kingdom of Yarke, right along its borders, there is a place called Uren. There, men frequently disappear. Like the silver grass in Uren, rumors have grown…

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This Manga is About Memories

This manga is called Crying Freeman and it’s heartbreaking

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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…

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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…

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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 […]

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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…

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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…

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Ys: Memories of Celceta Review Link

Another Ys review by yours truly. Link HERE.

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Cafune (2023) review [OAFF 2023]

A very strong debut by Haruki Kinemura.

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Memories – Anime Review

Three short stories: engineers investigate a haunted space station in Magnetic Rose; a hapless chemist becomes walking death in Stink Bomb; a look at a day in the…

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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…

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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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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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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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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…

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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…

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Melting Sounds (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

“Kahori Higashi’s debut is impressive.”

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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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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…

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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…

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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...

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Memory (ONA), Metropolis

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…

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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.

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Sentimental Memories of Unico

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

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Memories of Phantasy Star

A journey always starts somewhere

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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…

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Hello everyone, In this special episode of Heroic Purgatory, John and Jason discuss their favorite movies from the wonderful 2022 Osaka Asian Film Festival. Timestamps:2:53 - Media Consumption19:12 - News23:42…

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OAFF 2022 Special

Hello everyone, In this special episode of Heroic Purgatory, John and Jason discuss their favorite movies from the wonderful 2022 Osaka Asian Film Festival. Timestamps:2:53 - Media Consumption19:12 - News23:42…

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OAFF 2022 Special

Hello everyone, In this special episode of Heroic Purgatory, John and Jason discuss their favorite movies from the wonderful 2022 Osaka Asian Film Festival. Timestamps:2:53 - Media Consumption19:12 - News23:42…

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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…

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Our House Party (2022) review [OAFF 2022]

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

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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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