By Delphine Riffaud Dir: Shin’ya Tsukamoto Bullet Ballet is a Japanese modern punk tale written and directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto. Before Bullet Ballet, Tsukamoto was known for Tetsuo and Tokyo Fist as the leader of the Japanese cyberpunk movement. […]
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Review by: Natasha Monk Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima Kamikaze Girls is a 2002 novel written by Novala Takemoto, adapted into a manga and film. The film was directed by Tetsuya Nakashima and showcases the friendship between […]
Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima By: Daniella Dahoui Confessions, a film adaptation of an acclaimed Japanese novel by Kanae Minato and Japan’s Oscar-entry film of 2011, became an instant Asian movie classic upon its release in 2010. […]
Dir: David Zellner Review by: Daria Landal Minnesota’s unlikely urban legend, a depressed Japanese woman lost in the woods of Fargo in the fall of 2001, gets a reincarnation with a new film by David […]