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Motion Picture: Choke (映画（窒息）, Gen Nagao, 2023)

The simple life of a woman living in a world devoid of language is disrupted by the intrusion of violence in Gen Nagao’s dialogue-free drama.

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Aug 19, 2024 • Subscribe

Kubi 首 (2023) Director: Takeshi Kitano [Japan Cuts 2024]

Kubi 首 (2023), directed by Takeshi Kitano, is a historical epic that amps up the violence and sex for satire’s sake as Kitano takes aim at the absurd samurai social…

Genkinahito

Jul 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Kubi 首 (2023) Director: Takeshi Kitano, Shuta Takahata [Japan Cuts 2024]

Kubi 首 (2023), directed by Takeshi Kitano, is a historical epic that amps up the violence and sex for satire’s sake as Kitano takes aim at the absurd samurai social…

Genkinahito

Jul 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Kubi (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

One of best period dramas in recent years.

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Jul 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Whale Bones 鯨の骨 (2023) Director: Takamasa Oe [Japan Cuts 2024]

Takamasa Oe’s social media mystery turns into a satire of living life online as a hapless website worker tries to find a missing AR girl in his beautifully…

Genkinahito

Jul 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Six Singing Women (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

A great narrative, yet one that stumbles over its own thematical fixation

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Aug 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Plastic (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]                

Miyazaki creates a moody narrative that highlights the equivocal functionality of music for the subject as well as the destructive impact of not being able to create an…

psycho-cinematography

Aug 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Winny (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Matsumoto offers a serene insight in how the Other of the law curtails a subject and, indirectly, sabotages the prospects of a new industry.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 5, 2023 • Subscribe

Single8 (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Konaka offers the spectator a heartwarming invitation to re-find, within oneself, one’s (nearly extinguished) passion for creation.

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Aug 16, 2023 • Subscribe

JAPAN CUTS Announces 2024 Lineup

At Japan Society New York from July 10 to 21

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Jul 3, 2024 • Subscribe

JAPAN CUTS Announces 2023 Lineup

At Japan Society New York July 26 to Aug. 6

Windows on Worlds

Jun 22, 2023 • Subscribe

Blue Imagine ブルーイマジン Director: Urara Matsubayashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 / Japan Cuts 2024]

Director Urara Matsubayashi makes a definitive #MeToo film for the Japanese film industry with her sincere and complex drama Blue Imagine ブルーイマジン [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 / Japan…

Genkinahito

Jul 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Nezumikozō Jirokichi (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

The mix of elements supports the film’s aim well, that is to entice spectators to seek out the three films that remain from this somewhat forgotten master

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Jul 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Social Circles (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

A highly experimental and conceptual experience that might not be for everyone

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Jul 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Hail Mary (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

Nakamura succeeds in making the spectator care for Maria and impact him/her emotionally with her tragedy.   

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Jun 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Special - Japan Cuts Film Festival 2024

  Table of Contents Hello everyone, Once again this year, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Japan Cuts 2024 film…

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Jul 21, 2024 • Subscribe

Amiko (2022) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

A fabulous narrative that explores the destructive effects caused by the radical misunderstanding that marks the field of speech and the refusal to speak to one’s child as…

psycho-cinematography

Jan 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Hand (2022) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Matsui avoids delivering an exploitative erotic piece merely to be enjoyed by male audiences.

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Aug 22, 2023 • Subscribe

All The Long Nights (2024) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

A splendid drama that shows how symptoms can disturb a subject’s life and how the social field attains its cruel complexity due to the riddle of desire.

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Jul 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Bottle George (2024) [Japan Cuts 2024]

An instant stop-motion classic

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Jun 26, 2024 • Subscribe

The Legend and The Butterfly (2023) [Japan Cuts 2023]

The combination of historical anchor points, a phantasmatic romance to link those points together, and satisfying burst of action will surely be able to satisfy those who thirst…

psycho-cinematography

Aug 31, 2023 • Subscribe

Best Wishes To All (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

A surprisingly satisfying horror-narrative

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Dec 3, 2023 • Subscribe

A Movie Capital (映画の都, Toshio Iizuka, 1991)

As the opening of Toshio Iizuka’s A Movie Capital (映画の都, Tokyo no Miyako) makes plain, 1989 was a year of turbulence all over the world but also perhaps…

Windows on Worlds

Jan 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture Review

It’s been a while since we collabed, but here we are talking about a fighting game movie! Fun times, right? The original plan came to be for this…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Jun 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

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Jun 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Amiko Wins Obayashi Prize at 2023 JAPAN CUTS

Prize introduced in 2020 is awarded an independently produced narrative feature from an emerging filmmaker.

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Aug 8, 2023 • Subscribe

SHUNGA: The Lost Japanese Erotica  春の画 SHUNGA (2023) Director: Junko Hirata [Nippon Connection 2024]

Junko Hirata’s gorgeous and informative documentary SHUNGA: The Lost Japanese Erotica  春の画 SHUNGA (2023) reclaims the erotic artform by showing the skill involved in making the prints and the…

Genkinahito

Jul 9, 2024 • Subscribe

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All the Long Nights 夜明けのすべて (2024) Director: Sho Miyake [Nippon Connection 2024 / Japan Cuts 2024]

Beautifully depicted, workmates suffering in silence with mental and physical conditions feel the warmth of human connection in director Sho Miyake’s All the Long Nights 夜明けのすべて (2024)…

Genkinahito

Jul 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Father of The Milky Way Railroad (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

By being able to rely on such talent, Narushima is able to deliver a narrative that gracefully moves the spectator and elegantly provokes spectator’s emotions and tears.

psycho-cinematography

Sep 3, 2023 • Subscribe

A Preview of Japan Cuts 2024 (July 10th – July 21st)

Details on the line-up for Japan Cuts 2024 (July 10th – July 21st))

Genkinahito

Jun 10, 2024 • Subscribe

The Complete Guide to “Yuri Movies” (「百合映画』完全ガイド) 

While on the Yuri Tour in 2019, one of the last places I visited was Toranoana’s Yuri section. I mention this because, while it does not have a…

Okazu

Mar 7, 2021 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007 - Skyfall

In this twenty fourth Installment of Spiraken's James Bond Marathon/Bond-o-thon, Xan and Gretta talk about the 60th anniversary film for the James Bond Franchise. Is it an acceptable…

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Sep 18, 2021 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007-Goldeneye

In this eighteenth Installment of Spiraken's James Bond Marathon/Bond-o-thon, Gretta returns to help Xan discuss the First of the Pierce Brosnon Era Bond films. How does it stack…

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Aug 15, 2020 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007- Octopussy

In this Thirteenth installment of Spiraken Review Podcast's "Bond Marathon/Bond-o-Thon", Xan & Gretta review a Bond movie rushed in order to compete with an unofficial Bond Film.Is it…

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Apr 20, 2020 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007- Moonraker

In this eleventh installment of Spiraken Review Podcast's "Bond Marathon/Bond-o-Thon", Xan & Gretta review a space themed Spy film that has a very familiar plot to an earlier…

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Mar 1, 2020 • Subscribe

OtakuGeneration.net :: (Show #822) Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

Shownotes :: (show 822) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, recorded live March 7th, 2021. This week, we watched…

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Mar 10, 2021 • Subscribe

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007- Goldfinger

In this third installment of Spiraken's "Bond Marathon/Bond-o-thon", Gretta and Xan get to review arguably the most iconic bond film in the franchise. From golden painted women to…

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Feb 3, 2020 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007- Thunderball

In this fourth installment of Spiraken Review Podcast's Bond Marathon/Bond-o-thon", Can & Gretta review the fourth film of the James Bond Franchise. So grab your rebreather, arm your…

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Feb 8, 2020 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007- Spectre

In this twenty fifth Installment of Spiraken's James Bond Marathon/Bond-o-thon, Xan and Gretta talk about the last James Bond film, which had the return of MI6's evil counterpart…

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Sep 25, 2021 • Subscribe

Future Blues 2020 — Session 6: The Motion Picture

There is a myth that Cowboy Bebop didn’t enjoy any popularity in Japan. While one can argue that the show gained more notoriety in the US compared to…

Analog Housou

Dec 12, 2020 • Subscribe

Cowboy Bebop

Future Blues 2020 — Session 6: The Motion Picture

There is a myth that Cowboy Bebop didn’t enjoy any popularity in Japan. While one can argue that the show gained more notoriety in the US compared to…

Analog Housou

Dec 12, 2020 • Subscribe

Cowboy Bebop

A Preview of Japan Cuts 2023 (July 26th – August 06th)

Details on the line-up for Japan Cuts 2023 (July 26th – August 06th)

Genkinahito

Jun 28, 2023 • Subscribe

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK

Mari and Mari  彼女来来  (2021) Director: Tatsuya Yamanishi [Japan Cuts 2021]

Mari and Mari  彼女来来  (2021) Director: Tatsuya Yamanishi [Japan Cuts 2021]

Genkinahito

Sep 8, 2021 • Subscribe

The Three Sisters of Tenmasou Inn (2022) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Those spectators that love to release their stress by releasing tears will be very satisfied by Kitamura’s narrative.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 13, 2023 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: James Bond 007 -Dr No

With the 25th film in the James Bond Franchise being released this year, Xan decided to review every single Eon Pictures James Bond Film in order, before the…

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Jan 26, 2020 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review Ep 14: The Name’s Plisskin

#escapefromnewyork #moviereview #spiraken In this long awaited episode, Xan is joined by Stefan Latour, friend of the podcast and head of Otakuthon. These two get to review a…

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Sep 17, 2022 • Subscribe

December Bonus Review #3 Star Trek: The Motion Picture

The original Star Trek was a classic that helped define sci-fi television alongside the likes of Doctor Who and the original Star Wars trilogy. The original series ended…

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Dec 29, 2020 • Subscribe

March 2022 Review (You’re Under Arrest the Motion Picture)

So, in the next few months, I will be taking a look at some movie entries for some of my favorite franchises. Mainly as a change of pace…

EclecticDude's Anime Carnival

Mar 31, 2022 • Subscribe

Spiraken Motion Picture Review: Dune Part 2 (Spoiler Filled)

The Spice Must Flow!!! In This episode, Xan & Gretta review the highly anticipated sequel to Denis Villenueve's 2021 epic adaptation of Frank Herbert's Novel. Does It do…

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Mar 9, 2024 • Subscribe

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