Nice Weather | "Riverside Mukolitta"
On Riverside Mukolitta , dir. Naoko Ogigami. Japan. 2021. The term “shokakko (小確幸)”, an abbreviation for “small, real happiness”, was...
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Sep 17, 2021
The Exile | "Anima"
Today’s Inner Mongolia (China), bordering Mongolia and Russia, is inhabited by Han, Mongols, Manchu, Evenki, Oroqen, Daur and many other...
Feb 15, 2021
The Lone Wolf Conundrum | "Under the Open Sky"
On Under the Open Sky & Interview with Dir. Miwa Nishikawa Under the Open Sky , whether intentionally or not, makes references to a wide...
Oct 11, 2020
The Image It Bears | “Ainu Mosir”
Ainu Mosir Japan/USA/China, 2020, 84 minutes. Directed and written by Takeshi Fukunaga. The last few years have witnessed the springing...
Jun 9, 2020
Far away, too close | Nippon Connection 2020
Naomi Mizoguchi focused her camera on another voice that has been neglected and silenced for hundreds of years, which is the voice of...
Jan 26, 2020
Generous Complicity | “Complicity”
While China has become the world’s second largest economy and the No. 1 source of overseas visitors for Japan, the film Complicity runs...
Nov 24, 2019
老去的西西弗斯 | 《Old Men Never Die（老人永生）》
“西比尔，你想要什么？” 她回答：“我想要死亡”。——佩特罗尼乌斯，《萨蒂利孔》 伊朗导演Reza Jamali的电影长片处女作《老人永生》讲述了一群百岁老人在一个地远人稀的村庄里“长生”不死的故事。他们器官衰老、行动缓慢、变得无欲无求，却总也等不来生命的终点。生命的终章...
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