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My Edison (2025) 3/5 “Director Gaku Kawasaki, who wrote the original play, proves to be a steady set of hands, while there’s enough variety in the locations to make you forget the material’s stage origins.” – Japan Times May 14, 2025 Full Review The Killer Goldfish (2024) 2/5 “The outlandish concepts and discordant stylistic flourishes never cohere into an entertaining film.” – Japan Times May 9, 2025 Full Review Bullet Train Explosion (2025) 67% 2/5 “While the visual effects are top-notch, the carnage feels restrained compared to Higuchi’s prior work.” – Japan Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review The Brothers Kitaura (2024) 3/5 ““The Brothers Kitaura” features some impressive displays of ineptitude... punctuated by extended bouts of bickering and inertia. ” – Japan Times Apr 11, 2025 Full Review Unreachable (2025) 2/5 “It’s as pretty as a picture and just as flat.” – Japan Times Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Boy (2025) 3/5 “Three hours is a long time to spend in the company of this film, with visuals, seemingly shot on consumer-grade cameras, that seldom rise above the level of a daytime 온라인카지노추천 drama.” – Japan Times Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Escape (2025) 3/5 “The quality of the performances varies, but Kanji Furutachi is excellent as the older Kirishima.” – Japan Times Mar 25, 2025 Full Review Laugh, Everyone! (2025) 3/5 ““Laugh, Everyone!” may leave you uncertain whether to chortle or cringe, but that’s probably the point.” – Japan Times Mar 22, 2025 Full Review 1st Kiss (2025) 3/5 “"First Kiss” is a real charmer. This isn’t a movie for first dates, but for all the dates to come.” – Japan Times Mar 21, 2025 Full Review The Solitary Gourmet (2024) 2/5 “Each time “The Solitary Gourmet” serves up something a little unexpected, it quickly returns to more familiar fare.” – Japan Times Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Muromachi Outsiders (2025) 3/5 “The film never quite settles on a consistent tone, as if it can’t quite decide whether to be a sweeping historical drama or a “Pirates of the Caribbean”-style romp. ” – Japan Times Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Missing Child Videotape (2024) 3/5 “It’s all about ambient dread, heightened by creepy sound design and a musical score that’s more of a subliminal presence.” – Japan Times Mar 6, 2025 Full Review The Gesuidouz (2024) “A smug shaggy-dog story that feels like its creator is seeing how much he can get away with by pandering to undiscerning festival audiences.” – Japan Times Mar 6, 2025 Full Review Demon City (2025) 50% 1/5 “Relentless both in its violence and drudgery, “Demon City” is a film that would once have gone straight to DVD.” – Japan Times Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Wakamusha (2024) 4/5 “At 37, the director probably still qualifies as a young filmmaker himself. But “Wakamusha” — the fifth feature in an increasingly impressive filmography — is the work of an artist who knows exactly what he’s doing.” – Japan Times Jan 23, 2025 Full Review I Am a Comedian (2024) 4/5 ““I Am a Comedian” no longer feels quite as timely as it did when it premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2022, but the emotions it captures are still just as raw.” – Japan Times Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Secret: A Hidden Score (2024) 2/5 “Once the film reveals what’s been going on, it switches into an aggressively torrid register, as if determined to ensure that no tear goes unshed (yes, there’s terminal illness involved).” – Japan Times Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Stay Mum (2024) 2/5 “Adapting Koji Kitakuni’s 2011 novel “Uso”, director and writer Kosai Sekine seems torn between creating a potboiler suspense and a more nuanced human drama, but ends up struggling on both counts.” – Japan Times Jan 23, 2025 Full Review The Hotel of my Dream (2024) 2/5 “The film offers occasional glimpses of the snappy, erudite comedy that screenwriter Keita Kawajiri perhaps had in mind, but it never really gels.” – Japan Times Jan 23, 2025 Full Review Cells at Work! (2024) 3/5 “Takeuchi is rare among Japanese filmmakers in his ability to make manga adaptations where the characters feel like they’ve stepped straight out of the pages of a comic, rather than a cosplay convention.” – Japan Times Dec 24, 2024 Full Review The Making of a Japanese (2023) 3/5 ““The Making of a Japanese” is an intimate chronicle of a turbulent year defined by the strictures of the coronavirus pandemic. ” – Japan Times Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Angry Squad (2024) 3/5 “But for all its occasional hamminess, “Angry Squad” has a lot of heart — and it pulls off exactly what it set out to achieve.” – Japan Times Dec 11, 2024 Full Review A Girl Named Ann (2024) 3/5 “There’s a fascinating dynamic between her and Sato; the latter’s wild-card energy keeps the film from succumbing to earnestness. When his character gets sidelined later on, the story starts to falter.” – Japan Times Nov 15, 2024 Full Review Oasis (2024) 2/5 “The rest of Oasis isn’t quite so persuasive, at least if you take it seriously. Iwaya would probably like to think he’s making something in the vein of Hiroshi Shoji’s neo-noir... but the movie’s grit is about as convincing as Kanamori’s neck tattoo.” – Japan Times Nov 15, 2024 Full Review 11 Rebels (2024) 3/5 “The whole thing is fun without being particularly gripping, perhaps because the script runs out of convincing reasons for its underdog antiheroes to keep up their resistance even after they’ve discovered it’s a ruse.” – Japan Times Nov 6, 2024 Full Review
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