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Review of Going the Distance (2016)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 22 Feb 2018

The entire film stands on its final scene - and it is perfect, following powerfully as it does from everything that has come before…

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Review of Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

By Giovanni Fazio (51) for Japan Times (198) on 01 Feb 2018

This is a wildly creative film that plays on your heart and your head, stunning in its rich imagery and ambitious in its themes…

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Review of Ricky (2011)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 01 Feb 2018

Ricky also has its share of weirdness, but it's un-Ozon-like in that the queasy sense of distorted reality isn't in the details, but in the…

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Review of Ricky (2009)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 01 Feb 2018

Ricky also has its share of weirdness, but it's un-Ozon-like in that the queasy sense of distorted reality isn't in the details, but in the…

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Review of Manhunt (2017)

By James Hadfield (25) for Japan Times (198) on 31 Jan 2018

It's got the white doves, gratuitous slo-mo and operatic gunplay that fans of [John] Woo's earlier films would expect, but the whole thing…

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Review of Hanagatami (2017)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 06 Dec 2017

The result is a phantasmagoria of rapid cutting, perfervid acting and extravagant visuals, with the moon a giant ball bathing the sea and islands…

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Review of Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

By Matt Schley (5) for Japan Times (198) on 15 Nov 2017

Being two of Japan's biggest pop-cultural exports, it's a small wonder Godzilla and anime haven't been brought together before now…

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Review of Birds Without Names (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 25 Oct 2017

Aoi is impressive as the poisonous Towako but it's Abe who pulls the story along with his small frame and dog-like abjection…

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Review of Dawn Wind in My Poncho (2017)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 23 Oct 2017

Its journey may not be yours, but it happens to be funny and sad in ways familiar to anyone who was once a hormone-crazed teenage boy given…

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Review of Outrage Coda (2017)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 18 Oct 2017

If the action isn't especially fresh - Kitano fans will spot references to his earlier films - his talent for spare-but-impactful visuals and…

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Review of Ernesto (1979)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 04 Oct 2017

Earnest, plodding and frankly propagandistic - it was made with the cooperation of the Cuban government - Ernesto may seem a strange project…

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Review of Tornado Girl (2017)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 19 Sep 2017

More than a retrograde sex comedy, however, Okuda is a tough-love coming-of-age movie, with Koroki's fall from the heights of infatuation the…

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Review of The Miracles of the Namiya General Store (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 19 Sep 2017

Brought to the screen by Ryuichi Hiroki, a master of the genre, Namiya comes off like the Japanese version of a Nicholas Sparks vehicle, minus…

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Review of Icarus (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 05 Sep 2017

There's an inescapable sense of loss in the film, mainly because the people involved have been fighting for such a long time…

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Review of Sekigahara (2017)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 23 Aug 2017

[Sekigahara] achieves more often than not…

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Review of Wonder Woman (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 23 Aug 2017

Wonder Woman is not a woman's movie, but an action film with incredible relevance…

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Review of Baby Driver (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 22 Aug 2017

Baby Driver is the kind of bad boy that our mothers (and electric car enthusiasts) are always guilt-tripping us over…

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Review of The Mummy (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 25 Jul 2017

The Mummy begins with one main premise: Tom Cruise still has it. It ends with a promise: Tom Cruise will always have it…

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Review of Side Job (2017)

By Mark Schilling (31) for Japan Times (198) on 22 Jul 2017

Side Job provides a narrative that stays true to the complex and not-always-edifying reality of life in the disaster zone…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Kaori Shoji (86) for Japan Times (198) on 18 Jul 2017

Much of Okja is sheer visual poetry, the kind you'll see in Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away but with less dreaminess and…

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