We are living with a generation that is increasingly obsessed with multiverses and the fluid concept of time, so it was only genius for Kazuaki Kiriya to hop on the bandwagon and deliver his rumored ‘final piece of work', set in Japan of the near future. Working with concepts along the veins of his previous apocalyptic “Casshern (2004)”, the director known for his outlandish ideas, takes us on a time-bending journey of samurais, nuclear attacks, and magical grimoires.
From the End of the World is screening at Japan Cuts
As the great expanse of earth gives way to a bleak forest fire, a child suddenly appears and finds herself in the fray of death and destruction in Edo Japan. Everything is a picture of charcoal-blackness but the blood that flows around her is a sea of striking red (expertly manipulated by cinematographer Chigi Kanbe). Color then returns as the picture transitions to the modern world.
From the End of the World is screening at Japan Cuts
As the great expanse of earth gives way to a bleak forest fire, a child suddenly appears and finds herself in the fray of death and destruction in Edo Japan. Everything is a picture of charcoal-blackness but the blood that flows around her is a sea of striking red (expertly manipulated by cinematographer Chigi Kanbe). Color then returns as the picture transitions to the modern world.
- 8/1/2023
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
Shunji Iwai made his feature debut in 1995 with “Love Letter” after a career directing music videos. It is a film that has some brilliant moments of filmmaking from someone who clearly knows their craft, though the music video influence can also grate and annoy at times. After a previous idol group documentary (“How to Forget Sadness: Documentary of Nogizaka46” (2015)), Takeshi Maruyama likewise switches from directing music videos to feature films with his ambitious ensemble piece “Spaghetti Code Love”.
Spaghetti Code Love is screening at Japan Cuts
Taking its name from unstructured source code, this is a number of separate stories of the lives of various young Tokyoites as they struggle to cope with love and life in the modern-day metropolis. There is a struggling musician who pines for her ex who now beds a high-class escort; a young photographer who falters at his big break, while having to fend off...
Spaghetti Code Love is screening at Japan Cuts
Taking its name from unstructured source code, this is a number of separate stories of the lives of various young Tokyoites as they struggle to cope with love and life in the modern-day metropolis. There is a struggling musician who pines for her ex who now beds a high-class escort; a young photographer who falters at his big break, while having to fend off...
- 8/25/2021
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
Having a great cast in his hands, Shunji Iwai decided to take a trip down his own cinematic past this time, resulting in a rather nostalgic film that works on a number of levels, but also seems to fail to pack a punch. The script is based on his own novel, while in 2018 he directed a homonymous, Chinese film starring Zhou Xun.
Yuri is a middle-aged mother who has just returned to the area she grew up, along with her daughter, Fuka, to attend the funeral of her older sister, Misaki, who has just died, leaving her own daughter, Ayumi, with her grandmother, since her husband is out of the picture. When an invitation for a class reunion comes to the house, Yuri decides to attend, to inform her sister’s classmates of her death, but finds herself being confused with Misaki, to the point that an old boyfriend of hers,...
Yuri is a middle-aged mother who has just returned to the area she grew up, along with her daughter, Fuka, to attend the funeral of her older sister, Misaki, who has just died, leaving her own daughter, Ayumi, with her grandmother, since her husband is out of the picture. When an invitation for a class reunion comes to the house, Yuri decides to attend, to inform her sister’s classmates of her death, but finds herself being confused with Misaki, to the point that an old boyfriend of hers,...
- 12/20/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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