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Japanology Graduate & Film Festival Judge

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I'm Still Here is a slow burn of a film, that feels especially purposeful to allow the audience to feel a semblance of the torture that time plays on you when in such a inhumane situation. This slow story-telling is...

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I'm Still Here (2024)
In the early 1970s, the military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family - Rubens, Eunice, and their five children - live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. On...
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February 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The newest film by Yamada Naoki (A Silent Voice) and crew, The Colors Within, is infused with beautiful music, but doesn't quite feel like a feature film at times. boxd.it/8GvAg9
A ★★★½ review of The Colors Within (2024)
The whiplash from Japan to Scotland I got from the sudden playing of "Born Slippy" was insane. Decent, feels weird to see such a Christian focus in Japanese film and it portrayed in such a positive li...
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February 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
With 2024 over, here's my ranking on all the new watches I made from the past year (minus festival films). Here's to another year of cinema adventure!

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2024 in Review
The highs and lows (new watches only)
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January 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
#Film festivals are like traversing the unknown waters of auteurs works from around the world. However, Capgras is a stick of dynamite blowing its competitors out of the water with its psychological family thriller, making you question your own beliefs. #Review

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Capgras (Short 2023) - User reviews - IMDb
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December 21, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Hook, line and sinker. This year I have been constantly played by movie trailers, being sold on films through the story portrayed within them, only to be ultimately disappointed when it comes to their release – of which Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is no exception...
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
183 years before the events chronicled in the original trilogy, a sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and ruthless Dunlending lord seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand and...
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December 19, 2024 at 12:06 AM
A late review to Anora (2024) after time to process what a masterclass in cinema Sean Baker and his ensemble have crafted. boxd.it/85jPPr
A ★★★★½ review of Anora (2024)
"Are you happy?" Sex, Drugs, a cacophony of music, and attitude that grips you throughout the entirety of the film. Anora is an incredibly well paced film with its acts escalating in action, tension a...
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December 18, 2024 at 10:21 AM
West vs. East & a dream opportunity for special effects direct Tsuburaya. Did pay off, and does it still hold up?

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A ★★ review of King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
“[The studio] thought it would be interesting to make these two monsters fight,” Honda in Ryfle, S., Godziszewski, E. and Yuuko Honda-Yun (2017). Ishiro Honda : a life in film, from Godzilla to Kurosa...
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December 1, 2024 at 7:24 PM
The Contestant is the Truman Show in real life, but without anyone trying to help. The comedy bred from insanity is temporary, but the effects of the show are deep and lingering on its star Nasubi....

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A ★★★★ review of The Contestant (2023)
If you could hold on a little longer, you could grow another level as a human. The Contestant is the Truman Show in real life, but without anyone trying to help. The comedy bred from insanity is tempo...
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November 28, 2024 at 12:11 AM
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