Japanese
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews DRIVE MY CAR a ‘soul-feeding and visually breathtaking’ film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami enjoys a cult status among the readers of the 21st century. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi undertook the mammoth task of adapting his short story ‘Drive My Car’ into an eponymous film. The result is soul-feeding and visually breathtaking. The film has an unmistakable life force in it that is contagious. …
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My Father, The Bride : a Japanese tale about being a Family
Toka (Honoka Matsumoto) is an unhappy young career woman in Tokyo who meets her estranged husband once a week even though they seem to have very little common. They only married three years ago and she is too ashamed to share the news of its failure with family. As it is the 3rd year…
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Shoplifters
Writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda’s extraordinary and brilliant new film about a disparate Japanese makeshift family may start in a gentle and slightly confusing manner, but by the time the final credits role you will be totally engrossed in the movie that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes last summer. The family live crammed into a small dilapidated…
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Berlin Drifters
When it comes to sexually explicit movies there is often a fine line between art and pornography, and in Berlin Drifters, director Kôichi Imaizumi crosses it back and forth throughout the movie. This tale of two Japanese gay men who are essentially trying to find their own very different ways in Berlin is told through a whole…
