Director – Kotaro Wajima – 2021 – Japan – 77m ***** New next door neighbours pose challenges for a man with learning difficulties and his carer mother – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2022 between Friday, 4th February and Thursday, 31st March Chu-san (Muga Tsukaji) gets up with his alarm, […]
Director – Yukiko Mishima – 2020 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 122m ****1/2 A woman trapped in a stultifying marriage experiences freedom and laughter in both returning to work and pursuing an extramarital relationship – played online in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2021 in the UK Married to Shin (Shotaro Mamiya) […]
Director – Kazuya Shiraishi – 2019 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 123m ****1/2 A woman murders her violent husband after years of his beating up the kids, goes to prison then returns 15 years later to find the siblings in turmoil – played online in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2021 in […]
Director – Chihiro Amano – 2019 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 106m **** A writer and young mother struggling with an elusive second novel finds herself dealing with a noisy, futon-beating neighbour in a rapidly escalating row exacerbated by viral internet videos – plays online in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2021 in […]
Director – Tomohiko Ito – 2019 – Japan – 97m **** A social misfit schoolboy must rescue a girl classmate from the rogue software underpinning a virtual, future version of Kyoto with the help of his time travelling, ten years older self who is in love with her – plays online in the Japan Foundation […]