Tag: Japanese
THE MAKIOKA SISTERS
This highly stylised melodrama reverently covers an elegant period in Japanese society in the late 1930’s when wealthy m erchants families revelled in all the steeped traditions of courtship and marriage. With both parents dead Tsuruko the eldest Makioka sister is the head of the family and as she and Satchiko (the second eldest) are already…
LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
The opening scene of the movie is set in a small Bar in Tokyo and the camera is fixed looking on the crowd whilst we hear a young woman out of sight arguing. We eventually see her and find that she is on the phone trying to persuade someone that she is somewhere else entirely. We…
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
At the beginning of this documentary on his life Jiro, a Japanese octogenarian chef, lectures that you must fall in love with your job. And in fact this is the tale of an extraordinary love affair between him and his endless quest of making the finest sushi ever. From his small unassuming basement restaurant ‘Sukiyabashi…
HOSPITALITE aka Kantai
Koji Fukada’s strange odd wee movie teeters between being a droll farce and an absurdist comedy, and it is very intriguing to say the least. Mikio is a meek little man inherited a small printing business from his father and which he runs from a narrow rickety building which is also home for him and…
RINCO’S
Rinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money…
