Painfully accurate and beautifully executed. Watching this movie as the Asian American older sister in my own family was like looking into a life parallel to mine. Every detail is exactly how I it but seeing it all from Chris’ perspective makes it feel so big. This is a more personal take on the film, but it doesn’t happen without Sean Wang’s vision, without his ability to transpose every aspect of being a Taiwanese American 13-year-old boy in 2008…

Japanuary 2025 #1: Satoshi Kon

In 1997 Satoshi Kon was able to understand almost instantly the innate horror of fame for women in the digital age. Mima is pushed relentlessly past her limits in her new career as an actress and with each act she strays further from the public’s idealized version of her. As an idol and as an actress, she is being bred for mass consumption and each step towards this exposure pushes Mima deeper into depersonalization. Mima…