Obscure Japanese Film #165 Tomohiro Tanabe and Sayuri Yoshinaga Based on the first part of a bestselling doorstop novel by Hiroyuki Itsu...
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Sazae-san no seishun / サザエさんの青春 (‘Sazae-san’s Youth’, 1957)
Obscure Japanese Film #246Chiemi Eri This third film in the Toho series kicked off by the previously-reviewed Sazae-san was the first to be shot in colour, but otherwise director Nobuo Aoyagi repeats…
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Wang Bing turns his camera on the mostly young workers in the textile factories of Zhili.
Dangerous Youth (危險的青春, Hsin Chi, 1969)
A young couple struggle to adapt themselves to a changing society in Hsin Chi’s youth morality drama
Spring Anime 2012 Season Preview: Naruto Shippuden SD: Rock Lee no Seishun Full-Power Ninden (ロック・リーの青春フルパワー忍伝)
There is not enough of information on this show, for which I am grateful. Not because I am tired of writing – not at all, but because the…
No Regrets for Our Youth (わが青春に悔なし, Akira Kurosawa, 1946)
A young woman is torn between a future with a passionate rebel or spineless conformist in Kurosawa’s meditation on the militarist folly.
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Nomad (烈火青春, Patrick Tam, 1982)
Aimless youth longs for exile in pre-Handover Hong Kong in Patrick Tam’s New Wave classic.
Terrorizers (青春弒戀, Ho Wi Ding, 2021)
A collection of youngsters are drawn into a dangerous web of simmering violence in Ho Wi Ding’s Taipei-set drama.
The Sunny Side of the Street (白日青春, Lau Kok-rui, 2022)
An embittered taxi driver is forced to reflect on his prejudices and relationships after getting into a vendetta with a refugee in Lau Kok-rui’s melancholy drama.
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (靑春の夢いまいづこ, Yasujiro Ozu, 1932)
A privileged young man begins to understand the divisive effects of inequality after taking over the family business in Ozu’s wistful student drama
The Rest of Our Lives (ラストターン 福山健二71歳、二度目の青春, Shinji Kuma, 2023)
A pair of elderly men struggle to find meaning in their lives in the face of well-meaning infantilism and health anxiety in Shinji Kuma’s warmhearted ageing drama.
REVIEW: Kei no Seishun
Separated by the cruelties of life, expectation and rank, two childhood friends turned lovers embark on separate missions to reunite with one another, in this emotional period drama…
Graveyard of Honor (仁義の墓場, Kinji Fukasaku, 1975)
A renegade gangster slowly implodes amid the turbulent winds of the post-war era in Kinji Fukasaku’s anarchic take on the life of Rikio Ishikawa
Who’ll Stop the Rain (青春並不溫柔, Su I-Hsuan, 2023)
Two young women meet and fall in love amid the student protests of ’90s Taiwan but find their connection frustrated by ongoing lack of “freedom” in the new…
Yuri Manga: Kanade Aoharu Band Yuri Anthology (青春バンド百合アンソロジー)
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The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka (華岡青洲の妻, Yasuzo Masumura, 1967)
A mother and a wife become locked in an absurd battle of one-upmanship volunteering as test subjects for a husband’s experiments in Yasuzo Masumura’s ironic relationship drama
Hijacked Youth – Dare to Stop Us 2 (青春ジャック 止められるか、俺たちを2, Junichi Inoue, 2024)
Junichi Inoue paints a larger than life picture of director Koji Wakamastu in a semi-autobiographical tale of the later dayd of Wakamatsu Pro.
Yuri Manga: Sore ha, Haru no Arashi no You ni, Volume 1 (それは、春の嵐のように)
Aoi is an office lady who dreams of a “normal life.” She tells her her friend that she wants to get married. Chi-chan appears to accept it. Aoi,…
Goukaku Tame no! Yasashi Sankaku Kakei Nyuumon ( 合格のための！ やさしい三角関係入門)
Mayuki is determined to get into the school of her choice to be close to the girl she likes, her old sempai on the basketball team, Akira. But…
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A highly engaging and satisfying thriller classic.
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Flavors of Youth
A beautifully animated coming of age vignette piece with a professional polish, but not very memorable at the end of the day.
Leaving on the 15th Spring (旅立ちの島唄～十五の春～, Yasuhiro Yoshida, 2013)
“How many of them will come back?” a man on the shore ominously asks as he watches the young people of his island ship out to pursue their…
The Vision of Youth - Farewell 999
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Blue Flag: The Color of Youth
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Koharu to Minato: Watashi No Partner Ha Onna No Ko, Volume 1 (小春と湊 わたしのパートナーは女の子)
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The Passenger (1975) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Passenger (1975) and existential thriller with a great turn from Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider. The Passenger (1975) Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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It took me a few years to finally get around to watching the 2018 film Flavors of Youth, which you can now find on Netflix. This anime-original anthology…
Takano Tofu (高野豆腐店の春, Mitsuhiro Mihara, 2023)
A sudden brush with mortality convinces an ageing tofu maker to marry off his middle-aged daughter in Mitsuhiro Mihara’s charming dramedy.
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I’ve not watched this show, but its now the one everyone won’t shut up again. Song is damn catchy though! The Tune of the Week is the opening…
The Power of Three: Steins;Gate
I was thinking about Steins;Gate for a different reason when I hit on why it works narratively. Because it shouldn’t, you know. Steins;Gate is really kind of a…
Vendetta of a Samurai (荒木又右衛門 決闘鍵屋の辻, Kazuo Mori, 1952)
Two friends find themselves on opposite sides of samurai vendetta that has nothing to do with them in Kazuo Mori’s merciless assault on the futility of the feudal…
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A series of witnesses give conflicting accounts of a death in the forest in Akira Kurosawa’s exploration of the limits of objective truth.
Death on Gokumon Island / 獄門島
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