Japanese Films – Under Southern Eyes

Rental Family: a heartfelt film on loneliness and connection in a socially conservative society

Hikari, “Rental Family” (2025) Beginning in the 1990s, rental family services offering actors to stand

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Lee Sang-il, “Kokuho” (2025) An ambitious and sumptuous work, paying homage to Japan’s kabuki theatre,

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Hayao Miyazaki, “Gake no Ue no Ponyo” / “Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”

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Hiromasa Yonebayashi, “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” (2017) A visually very attractive family movie, clearly

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Hayao Miyazaki, “My Neighbour Totoro” (1988) The film that brought Studio Ghibli to an international

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Hayao Miyazaki, “The Boy and the Heron” (2023) A decade after “The Wind Rises”, the

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Hirokazu Kore-eda, “Broker” (2022) A young woman brings her baby to a church’s baby box

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Jorge Lucas, Sumire Takamatsu, “Bakemono” (2019) Even in modern times, the demons and spirits of

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“The Dark Side of Japan: The Lost Generation” (Explained With Dom, 22 June 2022) One

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“What Eating the Rich did for Japan” (Asianometry, October 2021) In this mini-documentary on the

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