Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sion Somo
Starring: Chika Uchida | Kanji Tsuda | Kazuya Kojim | Makoto Togashi | Megumi Kagurazaka | Miki Mizuno | Ryuju Kobayashi
Jason says: “I’m not quite sure what the rationale is for cutting a half hour out of GUILTY OF ROMANCE for non-Japanese audiences; Sion Sono’s fans have proven quite willing to sit through a long movie over the past few
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Haruka Igawa | Inowaki Kai | Kanji Tsuda | Kyôko Koizumi | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yû Koyanagi
Jason says: “There have been many sequences in movies where someone loses his or her job, but few have been so callously cruel as the one that opens TOKYO SONATA: A pretty girl walks through an office, drawing all eyes.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Kanji Tsuda | Kayoko Shibata | Megumi Okina | Misa Uehara | Misaki Ito | Shuri Matsuda | Yui Ichikawa | Yukako Kukuri
Ivy says: “Ned and I responded to the creepy, psychological fear raised by this ghost story thriller. The premise of the film is that when people are wrongly killed their spirits want revenge. This revenge isn’t just left focused on
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