Winner of the Tiger Award in this year's IFFR, and in one of the most touching moments of the whole festival, with the whole cast and crew on stage, “Rei” is a typical Japanese family drama, which stands out due to its cinematography but also fosters a number of the inherent issues of the local movie industry.
Rei is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The kanji character “Rei” has no direct meaning by itself, but can find a number of meanings when combined with other characters, with the protagonists of the movie actually sharing a hypostasis quite similar to that of the kanji. 30-something company employee Hikari, eventually finds meaning when, after attending a stage play with her best friend, Asami, she is impressed by the quality of the poster, and begins searching for the particular landscape photographer. The man in question is a deaf landscape photographer, Mato, who has alienated his family,...
Rei is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The kanji character “Rei” has no direct meaning by itself, but can find a number of meanings when combined with other characters, with the protagonists of the movie actually sharing a hypostasis quite similar to that of the kanji. 30-something company employee Hikari, eventually finds meaning when, after attending a stage play with her best friend, Asami, she is impressed by the quality of the poster, and begins searching for the particular landscape photographer. The man in question is a deaf landscape photographer, Mato, who has alienated his family,...
- 2/4/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
By Olivia Popp
Premiering at the Tokyo International Festival and moving to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, “The Clone Returns Home” is Kanji Nakajima’s virtually unknown grounded sci-fi turned imaginative meditation on memory, life, and what can’t be captured within humankind’s attempt to control life. With Nakajima’s dreamscape and near-fantastical tale of being human, it’s no wonder that the movie easily attracts comparisons to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.” The Japanese director brings his 2006 Sundance / Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award screenplay to life in this pensive piece with a small cast and a simple premise.
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After an introduction to the world of the film, in which a space agency is experiencing unexpected and unforeseen deaths among its astronauts, the astronaut Kohei Takahara (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) is given the option to prepare materials so that the agency may create...
Premiering at the Tokyo International Festival and moving to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, “The Clone Returns Home” is Kanji Nakajima’s virtually unknown grounded sci-fi turned imaginative meditation on memory, life, and what can’t be captured within humankind’s attempt to control life. With Nakajima’s dreamscape and near-fantastical tale of being human, it’s no wonder that the movie easily attracts comparisons to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.” The Japanese director brings his 2006 Sundance / Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award screenplay to life in this pensive piece with a small cast and a simple premise.
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After an introduction to the world of the film, in which a space agency is experiencing unexpected and unforeseen deaths among its astronauts, the astronaut Kohei Takahara (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) is given the option to prepare materials so that the agency may create...
- 3/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
For his feature-length directorial debut, Japanese filmmaker Koji Uehara treads on familiar territory as he tackles a subject close to his heart, that of musicians, their world, the mania and the madness that comes with it. A vocalist of a rock band himself, Uehara creates a film that strips the journey of rockstars of any glitter or glory, however. “Before The Rainbow Falls,” instead disabuses audiences of the notion that being an up-and-coming rockstar is a sex and booze-galumph; on the contrary, it’s just a sobering struggle where trust gets broken and dreams, for the longest time, don’t take you anywhere.
Before the Rainbow Falls is screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg
The movie introduces us to Kohei Kazama, a down-and-out musician who’s racing against time to make things happen for his band. Comprised of men almost in their 30s, their band has been eclipsed by younger, newer...
Before the Rainbow Falls is screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg
The movie introduces us to Kohei Kazama, a down-and-out musician who’s racing against time to make things happen for his band. Comprised of men almost in their 30s, their band has been eclipsed by younger, newer...
- 6/23/2022
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
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