Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Gekidan Hitori | Hidetaka Yoshiokam | Masato Sakai | Teruyuki Kagawa | Yûko Takeuchi
Jason says: “FISH STORY may not have set the Japanese box office on fire, but the folks who saw it loved it, so it’s no wonder that director Yoshihiro Nakamura chose another Kotaro Isaka novel (with a musical title) as
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Atsushi Itô | Gaku Hamada | Hidekazu Mashima | Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Noriko Eguchi
Jason says: “FISH STORY, if nothing else, lives up to its name. Not in that fish appear anywhere in it, but in the other definition. It’s an unlikely story, which grows larger and stranger in the telling, but one that
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Gaku Hamada | Haru | Kana Kurashina | Kei Tanaka | Kento Nagayama | Naomi Ortega | Nene Otsuko
Jason says: “I feel vaguely like we’ve been taking Yoshihiro Nakamura for granted. Though he got his start writing horror movies for the likes of Hideo Nakata, he’s spent the last few years on a string of off-beat but surprisingly
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Hitomi Satô | Jun Inoue | Keisuke Horibe | Rie Tomosaka | Ryô Nishikido | Shiori Kutsuna
Jason says: “A BOY AND HIS SAMURAI has a well-worn fantasy premise that could have very easily proceeded in a very predictable fashion. However, even if the original novel it was based on did not have its time-lost samurai discovering
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