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I Never Shot Anyone (2020) review [Camera Japan Festival]

“Sakamoto creates a nice, pleasant ride, but one that will be easily forgotten.”  

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Sep 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Yuri Manga: Ichido Dake Demo, Koukaishiteimasu., Volume 1(一度だけでも、後悔してます。) Guest Review by Mariko S.

Welcome to Guest Review Wednesday here on Okazu! Today we welcome back reviewer Mariko S. as she takes a look at  a book that was mentioned in last…

Okazu

Mar 4, 2020 • Subscribe

Hit Me Anyone One More Time (記憶にございません！, Koki Mitani, 2019)

Japan’s “all time worst” prime minister undergoes a change of heart after getting hit on the head with a rock in Koki Mitani’s lowkey political satire

Windows on Worlds

Jun 8, 2021 • Subscribe

「全部磯チルドレンでいいんじゃないかと思っています」- 沓名健一インタビュー

The post 「全部磯チルドレンでいいんじゃないかと思っています」- 沓名健一インタビュー appeared first on Full Frontal.

Full Frontal

Jul 9, 2023 • Subscribe

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What we should be reading in Japanese - How to Japanese - April 2021

How to Japanese

Apr 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me? (先生、私の隣に座っていただけませんか？, Takahiro Horie, 2021)

A mangaka and her cheating husband become locked in a cat and mouse game of ambiguous revenge in Takahiro Horie’s deliciously cynical anti-rom-com

Windows on Worlds

Dec 21, 2021 • Subscribe

歩いても 歩いても OST - GONTITI

  Still Walking [Aruitemo Aruitemo] Directed by: Hirokazu Koreeda 2008 Download

Nihon Cine Art

Aug 27, 2012 • Subscribe

Tokarev (トカレフ, Junji Sakamoto, 1994)

The discovery of a pistol concealed under a vending machine provokes a prolonged crisis of power and masculinity in Junji Sakamoto’s tense psychological drama.

Windows on Worlds

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Okiku and the World (せかいのおきく, Junji Sakamoto, 2023)

A samurai’s daughter falls for a lowly manure man in a city on the brink of change in Junji Sakamoto’s touching dramedy.

Windows on Worlds

Jun 15, 2023 • Subscribe

Yuri Manga: Strawberry Fields wo Mou Ichido, Volume 3 ( ストロベリー・フィールズをもう一度)

In Volume 1, we met Akira, a high school student who tended to avoid other people and Pure the transfer student who calmly informs Akira that in 7…

Okazu

Nov 27, 2019 • Subscribe

Small, Slow But Steady (ケイコ 目を澄ませて, Sho Miyake, 2022)

An aspiring boxer begins to lose the will to fight in Sho Miyake’s empathetic character study.

Windows on Worlds

Oct 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 4 (おとなになっても)

In previous volumes of Otona ni Nattemo, we met Akari and Ayano, who met in a bar and spent the night together, Ayano’s husband Wataru, who has wondered…

Okazu

Jun 23, 2021 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 5 (おとなになっても)

Previous volumes of Shimura Takako’s adult life drama have centered on three adults whose life has been thrown into turmoil by unexpected emotions. Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 5…

Okazu

Dec 9, 2021 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 7 (おとなになっても)

In Shimura Takako’s Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 7 (おとなになっても) a lot happens. We left Akari and Ayano having been carefully not seeing one another for some time, as…

Okazu

Dec 8, 2022 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 8 (おとなになっても)

Akari and Ayano have moved in together. This fact fills this book with all sorts of tensions, both positive and negative. Sure, they have been through ” a…

Okazu

Sep 11, 2023 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, (おとなになっても) Volume 6

In Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 6, Shimura Takako has done something I’ve not seen before in a manga and I think I like it. ^_^ The main plot…

Okazu

Jun 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 3 (おとなになっても)

Akari is ready to move on. She’s ready to reclaim her old career in the salon and stop running away from her life. She’s putting Ayano and her…

Okazu

Feb 25, 2021 • Subscribe

Otona ni Nattemo, Volume 1 (おとなになっても)

Shimura Takako’s work with gender and sexual minorities has been very influential and popular among western manga readers, and series like Sweet Blue Flowers and Wandering Son end…

Okazu

May 28, 2020 • Subscribe

Sweet Blue Flowers, Wandering Son

Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire [シスターズロワイヤル 5姉妹に嫌がらせを受けて困っています] (PlayStation 4) Unboxing

A few days ago I received a shoot em up from Japan, and it came with some interesting goodies.

The Normanic Vault

Oct 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 7 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

When I reviewed Volume 6 I said of that volume that it was like a fever finally breaking. “You don’t feel “good,” per se, but you feel better,…

Okazu

Dec 14, 2021 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 6 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

You know how you feel after you’ve had a fever, when the fever breaks and you’re soaked in sweat? You don’t feel “good,” per se, but you feel…

Okazu

May 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 8 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

“The characters and the art have grown, Tamifull’s narrative skills are excellent here. We’ve been with them through a lot…and we’re still here as they enter the next…

Okazu

Oct 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 4 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

In Tamifull’s Yuri drama Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 4 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな), we are confronted with something we don’t see very often at all in Yuri…two people who may just…

Okazu

Jul 2, 2020 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 11 ( 付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

In my review of Volume 10, I said, “I’m ready for something to lighten up.” Welp, Volume 11 of Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana ( 付き合ってあげてもいいかな) by Tamifull is not…

Okazu

Feb 6, 2024 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 5 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

As a reviewer, I understand that spoilers are sometimes unavoidable in order to make a review make sense. As a reader, I don’t particularly mind spoilers…until I do.…

Okazu

Jan 14, 2021 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 9 ( 付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

When we first met Miwa, she was unsure of herself. And when we met Saeko she seemed very confident. As we’ve got to know them, we’ve come to…

Okazu

Dec 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 10 ( 付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

Life is complex – humans are complex systems and relationships are complex systems made up of other complex systems interacting. Things are always complicated in Tamifull’s Tsukiatte Ag…

Okazu

Sep 18, 2023 • Subscribe

You’re Not Normal, Either! (まともじゃないのは君も一緒, Koji Maeda, 2021)

A nerdy maths teacher turns to his student for advice on how to seem more “normal” little knowing she has an ulterior motive in Maeda’s charming rom-com

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Oct 3, 2021 • Subscribe

Love, Life and Goldfish (すくってごらん, Yukinori Makabe, 2021)

An elitist banker learns to embrace his sensitive side when demoted to a country backwater obsessed with goldfish in Yukinori Makabe’s charmingly quirky musical

Windows on Worlds

Mar 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Episode #76 (S10E5) – Getting Any? [みんな〜やってるか!] (1995)

We’re going lighter this time with comedy podcaster Chris Andersen. In this episode, we discuss Getting Any?, Takeshi Kitano’s 1995 comedy/parody film about a middle-aged guy obsessed w…

Japan On Film

Feb 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Yuri Manga: Tsukiatte Agetemo Iikana, Volume 3 (付き合ってあげてもいいかな)

2020 marks an interesting new phase for me in regards to Yuri manga. Because there are so many more comics about adult women, written for adults, my specific…

Okazu

Mar 2, 2020 • Subscribe

Aisarete mo Iindayo, Volume 1 ( 愛されてもいいんだよ)

In Amano Shuninta’s Aisarete mo Iindayo, Volume 1 ( 愛されてもいいんだよ) we meet Kimura Rin, an office worker who is being sexually harassed by a superior at work. She has…

Okazu

Sep 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Enma-san (えんまさん, Tomoki Suzuki, 2022)

A young woman with the ability to see people’s true thoughts thanks to a magic mirror becomes consumed with hatred for the world’s duplicity but finds unexpected connection…

Windows on Worlds

Jan 15, 2023 • Subscribe

It’s a Summer Film! (サマーフィルムにのって, Soshi Matsumoto, 2020)

A jidaigeki-obsessed high schooler sets out to make her own summer samurai movie in Soshi Matsumoto’s charming sci-fi infected teen rom-com

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Jun 12, 2021 • Subscribe

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Onaji Tokoro De Nemuru Made Matte (同じ所で眠るまで待って)

When I originally read Mizuno to Chayama, (水野と茶山) the thing that struck me, not in a positive way, was the lack of joy or humor or happiness. The…

Okazu

Jan 26, 2023 • Subscribe

Okiku and the World せかいのおきく (2023) Director: Junji Sakamoto [New York Asian Film Festival 2023]

Okiku and the World せかいのおきく (2023), directed by Junji Sakamoto, is an absolutely heart-warming and moving story of love set during the end of the samurai period. Its beautiful…

Genkinahito

Jul 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Amalock (あまろっく, Kazuhiro Nakamura, 2024)

A resentful middle-aged woman’s perspective begins to change when her father suddenly marries a much younger woman in Kazuhiro Nakamura’s lighthearted dramedy.

Windows on Worlds

Mar 7, 2024 • Subscribe

Private ha Honnin-tachi ni Makasete Orimasu (プライベートは本人たちに任せております)

I picked up a copy of Private ha Honnin-tachi ni Makasete Orimasu (プライベートは本人たちに任せております) (translated in English on the frontispiece as Private Life Is Left To Them, Yuri Talext…

Okazu

Jan 11, 2024 • Subscribe

Cross Game 50 (End) もう終わりましたょ。世界中で一番のアニメかもね TT_TT　Too good, no...

Cross Game 50 (End) もう終わりましたょ。世界中で一番のアニメかもね TT_TT　Too good, no words.

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Mar 29, 2010 • Subscribe

Cross Game

TV vs Movie I: Shot-by-Shot Comparison

This is a thorough overview comparing changes made between Gundam Reconguista in G Episode 1 to 5 and Movie I. This includes cuts, new shots, new animation, alterations,…

G-Shelf

Feb 18, 2022 • Subscribe

Transform!    へんしんっ！ Director: Tomoya Ishida [Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021]

Transform!    へんしんっ！ Director: Tomoya Ishida [Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2021]

Genkinahito

Oct 13, 2021 • Subscribe