Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Hyunri | Issey Takahashi | Masahiro Higashide | Minosuke | Ryôta Bandô | Takashi Sasano | Yû Aoi | Yuri Tsunematsu
Chris says: “Historical melodrama that takes a while to get where it’s going, although it eventually arrives (e.g. the stowaway sequence) and then unpredictably goes a little batshit after that. Docked at least half a star for how clumsily it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
Starring: Emi Takei | Munetaka Aoki | Takeru Satô | Taketo Tanaka | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yû Aoi
Jason says: “RUROUNI KENSHIN PART ONE: ORIGINS is a comic-book movie, not just in the sense that it’s adapted from a popular manga, but in how it both aims to introduce a lot of favorite elements and tell the story
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joon-ho Bong | Leos Carax | Michel Gondry
Starring: Ayako Fujitani | Ayumi Ito | Denis Lavant | Jean-François Balmer | Julie Dreyfus | Ryo Kase | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yû Aoi
Jason says: “Typically, anthology films like TOKYO! will focus on looking at a subject, whether that be an idea or (as in recent projects like PARIS, JE T’AIME) a city from multiple angles to see it as a whole, generally
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Arias
Starring: Kankurô Kudô | Yû Aoi | Yusuke Iseya
Jay says: “The decaying city is a staple of anime and science fiction (though TEKKON KINKREET doesn’t really fit that genre). It appears in many conventional urban genres, too, but they seldom have the ability to really show the audience
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