After Life (1999)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Arata Iura | Erika Oda | Hisako Hara | Kei Tani | Kyôko Kagawa | Sayaka Yoshino | Susumu Terajima | Takashi Naitô | Yusuke Iseya
When Marnie Was There (2015)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Starring: Kasumi Arimura | Nanako Matsushima | Sara Takatsuki | Susumu Terajima | Toshie Negishi
Jason says: “Toward the end of WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, I found myself feeling a delightfully paradoxical appreciation for how it was put together: It somehow feels simultaneously surprising and inevitable, with the symbolic and the literal overlapping in ways
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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Hiroki Matsukata | Mikijiro Hiro | Naoko Takenaka | Shido Nakamura | Susumu Terajima
Jason says: “For the last few years, I’ve had this recurring joke about how hiring TakashivMiike to direct family movies is the Japanese equivalent of Warner Brothers getting the rights to Harry Potter and deciding that the right man for
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