March 2, 2020
Miyazaki – artist, producer, director, and writer – has been called “The Japanese Walt Disney.” High praise, though I personally prefer Miyazaki’s work over Disney’s. Some […]
April 11, 2019
Like the Academy Award winning Departures, this film is about the worldwide economic meltdown, and the trials and tribulations people go through that lose their jobs. […]
April 11, 2019
(Japanese, 2004) Directed by Katsuhito Ishii. The father (Tomokazu Miura) is a hypnotherapist who loves to put his family under and make them experience wild LSD type scenarios (this guy needs to be given a father of the century award).
April 11, 2019
A contemplative piece about a lonely woman (Rei) that, while shopping for alcohol at a local truck stop market, meets a young man (Takatoshi), thinks To […]