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Midnight (미드나이트, Kwon Oh-seung, 2021) [Fantasia 2021]

A deaf woman and her mother become unwitting targets for a sadistic serial killer in Kwon’s extraordinarily tense chase through the darkened streets of Soeul

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Aug 24, 2021 • Subscribe

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Home Ground (홈그라운드, Kwon Aram, 2022)

Kwon Aram’s contemplative documentary follows the proprietor of an endangered lesbian bar as he reflects on the changes in his community.

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Apr 29, 2023 • Subscribe

A Founder’s Review with D.J. Lewis: Stellar Con 2022

Hey. So…where do I begin with this…? Its been a month since I’ve written any article or made any blog post; only because I was going through a…

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Nov 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Walk Up (탑, Hong Sang-soo, 2022)

An insecure director tries on a series of different personas while moving through several floors of the same building in Hong Sang-soo’s elliptical drama.

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Nov 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Cat Kiss (고양이 키스, Hwang Soo-bin, 2022)

A widowed single father’s life is suddenly thrown into disarray when his son’s decision to take in a local stray cat forces him to confront the trauma of…

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Apr 20, 2024 • Subscribe

The Novelist’s Film (소설가의 영화, Hong Sang-soo, 2022)

A novelist discovers new creative possibilities after striking an unexpected friendship with a conflict actress in a meta drama from Hong Sang-soo.

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Nov 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Fantasia Film Fest 2022: A Girl Meets a Boy and a Robot

Part of a bigger sci-fi anthology feature called TAISU, Watanabe's short brings together an international team to create a new post-apocalyptic world.

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Jul 23, 2022 • Subscribe

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Convenience Story (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival 2022]

Miki delivers a great psychological mystery narrative, yet it might not be for everyone.

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Aug 6, 2022 • Subscribe

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Erased: It’s a Wild Ride

Let me just gush about this anime for a minute.  You’ll find no in-dept analysis or theorizing here.  I just wanted to express how much I loved this…

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May 21, 2016 • Subscribe

My Small Land (マイスモールランド, Emma Kawawada, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A young woman’s life is destabilised when her father’s asylum claim is rejected in Emma Kawada’s empathetic debut feature.

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Jul 26, 2022 • Subscribe

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Next Sohee (다음 소희, July Jung, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A policewoman investigating the suicide of a teenage girl uncovers a dark web of corporate exploitation in July Jung’s hard hitting drama.

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Aug 20, 2022 • Subscribe

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Convenience Story (コンビニエンス・ストーリー, Satoshi Miki, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A blocked writer finds himself stranded in an uncanny reality in Satoshi Miki’s surreal sci-fi adventure.

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Aug 3, 2022 • Subscribe

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Lookism anime: Stellar animation and a good adaptation.

Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post.…

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Jan 2, 2023 • Subscribe

Lookism

Lookism anime: Stellar animation and a good adaptation.

Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post.…

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Jan 2, 2023 • Subscribe

Lookism

Shin-Ultraman (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

Higuchi and Anno deliver an impressive love letter to their childhood, yet their devoted love, which is sensible in every aspect of the narrative, might not be able…

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Jul 28, 2022 • Subscribe

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Shari (シャリ, Nao Yoshigai, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A red monster roams the landscape smearing its blood wherever it goes in Nao Yoshigai’s surreal documentary hybrid.

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Sep 17, 2022 • Subscribe

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Seire (세이레, Park Kang, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A new father finds himself haunted by paternal anxiety and old transgressions in Park Kang’s eerie folk horror.

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Sep 3, 2022 • Subscribe

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My Broken Mariko (2022) [Fantasia Film Festival]

Tanada offers a compelling exploration of the emotional turmoil a female subject caused by the sudden death of someone important.

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Aug 12, 2022 • Subscribe

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Fast & Feel Love (เร็วโหด..เหมือนโกรธเธอ, Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

An obsessive sports stacker is plunged into a delayed adulthood when his long term girlfriend suddenly leaves in Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s charming post-modern comedy.

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Aug 27, 2022 • Subscribe

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Review: Give Me a Ride (2024)

Give Me a Ride 出门在外 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 101 mins. Directors: Fan Chao 范超, Chen Yizi 陈一孜. Rating: 5/10. Blackly comic mystery centred on various shady characters…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

Sep 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Fantasia Film Fest 2022: Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún

WIT Studio brings this intriguingly abstract world, about a man finding small joys with his ward, to life with resplendent animation.

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Jul 17, 2022 • Subscribe

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Chorokbam (초록밤, Yoon Seo-jin, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

A small family contend with the persistent unfairness of the contemporary society in Yoon Seo-jin’s slow burn indie drama.

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Jul 20, 2022 • Subscribe

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The Fish Tale (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival]

A very heart-warming and touching narrative that shows that a subject does not necessarily need to make use of the neurotic solution to inscribe himself within the societal…

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Jul 31, 2022 • Subscribe

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Fantasia Confirms Second Wave of Titles for 2022

Runs in Montreal, Canada, July 14 to Aug. 3.

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Jun 13, 2022 • Subscribe

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Fantasia International Film Festival Confirms Complete 2022 Programme

Runs in Montreal July 14 to Aug. 3

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Jul 5, 2022 • Subscribe

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Sa Bangji (사방지, Song Kyung-shik, 1988)

The presence of an intersex person presents an existential threat to a fiercely patriarchal social order in Song Kyung-shik’s intense feudal-era drama.

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Apr 28, 2023 • Subscribe

Stateless Things (줄탁동시, Kim Kyung-Mook, 2011)

Two young men look for a home but find themselves exiles from the contemporary society in Kim Kyung-Mook’s poetic drama.

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May 15, 2023 • Subscribe

The Tenants (세입자, Yoon Eun-Kyung, 2023)

An office worker’s plan to sublet his apartment somewhat backfires in Yoon Eun-Kyung’s eerie dystopian drama.

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Jul 31, 2024 • Subscribe

My Broken Mariko (マイ・ブロークン・マリコ, Yuki Tanada, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

Devastated by the death of a friend, a young woman embarks on one last road trip in Yuki Tanada’s adaptation of the manga by Yuki Tanada.

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Jul 29, 2022 • Subscribe

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A Good Lawyer’s Wife (바람난 가족, Im Sang-soo, 2003)

Sexual repression and rigid patriarchal social codes slowly dissolve a “normal middle class” family in Im Sang-soo’s extremely frank treatise on contemporary gender roles.

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Jul 5, 2024 • Subscribe

It’s a recession…no more Fantasia!

Instead of spending more money on Fantasia I decided to just roll a new toon on a different server. (I’m really cutting down on extra expenses.) This doesn’t…

INJIGO

Jul 15, 2022 • Subscribe

Girl from Phantasia, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy

A Magical 2020

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The Animanga Spellbook

Dec 22, 2020 • Subscribe

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Introduction (인트로덕션, Hong Sang-soo, 2021)

A lost young man discovers he’ll need to make his own introductions when faced with parental distance in a minor departure for the prolific Hong Sang-soo

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Nov 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Rent-a-Girlfriend – 18 – Ride That Wave

The morning after Chizuru’s birthday Kazuya checks under the wall separating their balconies to confirm she took the gift. The neighbors exchange good mornings, and while Kazuya is…

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Aug 6, 2022 • Subscribe

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What To Do With Dead Kaiju (2022) review [Fantasia Film Festival 2022]

“An extremely well-structured genre-blend that does not only provides the laughs and giggles with its pleasant political satire, but also allows the spectator to immerge himself into the…

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Aug 3, 2022 • Subscribe

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Five Films Not To Miss [Fantasia Film Festival 2022]

Let us present 5 Japanese films that should already be high on your to-watch list.

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Jul 8, 2022 • Subscribe

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Next Door (옆집사람, Yeom Ji-ho, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

An aspiring policeman becomes embroiled in a kafkaesque series of events after waking up next to a dead body in next-door’s apartment in Yeom Ji-ho’s deliciously dark farce.

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Aug 31, 2022 • Subscribe

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Winter 2022 First Impressions – Fantasia Sango: Realm of Legends

Streaming: Funimation Episodes: 12 Source: Taiwanese RPG Episode Summary: As a nation finds itself on the decline at on the cusp of war, the people find themselves vulnerable…

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Feb 5, 2022 • Subscribe

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Fantasia 2010

Tuesday, Fantasia announced the highlights of its programming and posted all the details on its website . The 14th edition of the Fant...

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Jul 3, 2010 • Subscribe

Bleach, Naruto, King of Thorn, Metropolis, Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror

Golden Fantasia

detective fiction, 推理小説、games,

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Mar 20, 2021 • Subscribe

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Duty After School by Ha Il-Kwon

Duty After School was one of the darkest manhwa I have read. Like, literally. There were several panels where I could barely read the dialogue for the inky…

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Oct 27, 2021 • Subscribe

[Recommended Read] The Stellar Swordsman (Webtoon)

Source: https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-stellar-swordmaster/list?title_no=5988 By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting The Stellar Swordmaster by Hong Dae Ui and Juno on Webtoon has quickly become...

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[Recommended Read] The Stellar Swordsman (Webtoon)

Source: By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting The Stellar Swordmaster by Hong Dae Ui and Juno on Webtoon has quickly become one of my favorite stories. If you…

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Ao Haru Ride

Basketball is coming back, and I cannot wait to be disappointed by yet another team I have picked up. I didn’t choose the Bears or White Sox, but…

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Dec 4, 2020 • Subscribe

Blue Spring Ride

Ride Your Wave

Information for the upcoming light novel movie adaptation Ride Your Wave, The official English release is by Seven Seas.

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Jan 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Ride Your Wave

Blue Spring Ride

Spring is the time for love! Ao Haru Ride, literally meaning “Blue Spring Ride,” is a sweet little anime about the reblooming love between two young people who…

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Mar 14, 2021 • Subscribe

Blue Spring Ride

Ao Haru Ride

Basketball is coming back, and I cannot wait to be disappointed by yet another team I have...

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Blue Spring Ride

The Killer (더 킬러: 죽어도 되는 아이, Choi Jae-hoon, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A cynical hitman stumbles on a dark conspiracy when the teenager he’s supposed to be babysitting is kidnapped in Choi Jae-hoon’s retro action thriller.

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Aug 8, 2022 • Subscribe

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The Fish Tale (さかなのこ, Shuichi Okita, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

The infinite enthusiasm of a fish obsessive gradually brightens the world around them in Shuichi Okita’s charming portrait of an eccentric.

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Jul 17, 2022 • Subscribe

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The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra (다섯 번째 흉추, Park Sye-young, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A mouldy mattress gradually becomes sentient while traversing vistas of human loneliness in Park Sye-young’s experimental feature.

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Sep 12, 2022 • Subscribe

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