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runs a cinema. 親日 。
(favourite films are current/eternal mood)
life goes on // I need all my babies

Favorite films

  • Boyz n the Hood
  • The Best of Youth
  • The Bad Sleep Well
  • Close-Up

All
  • PTU

    ★★★½

  • A White, White Day

    ★★★★

  • Bandits of Orgosolo

    ★★★½

  • Orgosolo’s Shepherds

    ★★½

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Willful Murder

1981

★★★★ Liked Watched

move aside, Spotlight. with Willful Murder comes a newspaper film you've never heard of.

Tatsuya Nakadai plays the lead journalist Yashiro who doesn't seem to have any private life and only live to report on the next going-to-be historical occurrence in post-war Japan. as he is about to call in about the return of the Japanese army from Siberia another possible scoop presents itself when he is told that his deadline is pushed…

August in the Water

1995

★★★★ Watched

if young Haruki Murakami had turned director instead of writer this would be the film.

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PTU

2003

★★★½ Watched

~ Kowloon by night ~

A White, White Day

2019

★★★★ Liked Watched

it's downright criminal that Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir has only been cast by Hlynur Pálmason thus far.

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Men

2022

★½ Watched

English countryside post-Brexit is wild

One Win

2023

★★ 1

you know where you're at when the director states after the premiere that the sound design was not good and that it was his (first and) last attempt at a sports film, because he is not satisfied with the outcome.
yes, there's an absolutely stunning scene which was choreographed for two months, but the real shortcomins lie in the poor character development and missing emotional engagement.