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The 35th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF)

An Era of Violence

The four films, One and Four and Limbo screened at TIFF, and Ahed’s Knee and The Revolution of Our Times screened at FILMeX this year...

Nice Weather

On Riverside Mukolitta, dir. Naoko Ogigami. Japan. 2021. The term “shokakko (小確幸)”, an abbreviation for “small, real happiness”, was...

The Exile

Today’s Inner Mongolia (China), bordering Mongolia and Russia, is inhabited by Han, Mongols, Manchu, Evenki, Oroqen, Daur and many other...

Sons of the War

In 2015, some notes and other research materials from Kyoto Imperial University from the 1940s were unearthed. They revealed that Japan...

In search of light

Nippon Connection Shiver (2021, Toshiaki Toyoda) On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019, Kenji Iwaisawa) While many of the feature films display a dark...

The Lone Wolf Conundrum

On Under the Open Sky & Interview with Dir. Miwa Nishikawa Under the Open Sky, whether intentionally or not, makes references to a wide...

Emotional Implosion: The spreading agenda of mainland pop culture

Love Song 1980 Directed by Mei Feng. China. 2020. 2h7m. # TIFF Before becoming a director, Mei Feng was better known as an art film...

Swimming Towards Home

Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue Directed by Jia Zhang-ke. China. 2020. 111 mins. # FILMeX In the past few years, director Jia...

The Love Boat

Love after Love Directed by Ann Hui. China. 2020. 140 mins. # TIFF Love after Love is a feast for the eyes rendering the extravagance of...