Japanese Films – Page 3 – Under Southern Eyes

Entotsuya Peroo: a little man’s adventures exposing the devastation and brutality of war

Yoshitsugu Tanaka, “Entotsuya Peroo” (1930) Known also as “Chimney Sweep Peroo”, this unusual animated film

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Yuichi Kondo, “Ryoko’S Qubit Summer” (2018) Here is a sweet film about an unusual love

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Yoshitaro Kataoka, “Danemon’s Monster Hunt at Shojoji / Shojoji no tanuki-bayashi Dan Dan’emon” (1935) While

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Yasujiro Ozu, “Tokyo Story / Tokyo monogatari” (1953) Under the precise and careful direction of

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Hirokazu Kore-eda, “The Truth” (2019) Ironically truth is the one thing going missing in this

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Q-rais, “The Lost Breakfast” (2015) Where some cartoonists treat the weekday early morning ritual of

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Artyom Somov, “Dying Alone: Kodokushi, Japan’s epidemic of isolation through the eyes of a ‘lonely

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Hirokazu Kore-eda, “Shoplifters / Manbiki Kazoku” (2018) In this slow realist drama about an impoverished

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Satoshi Kon, “Tokyo Godfathers” (2003) No, this ain’t no cult yakuza film – though yakuza

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Shinji Aramaki, “Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars” (2017) Multiplying not quite as fast as the

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