In Taka Tsubota’s post-apocalyptic short, four high school boys are stuck together holed up in a forest cabin after most of the world has been overrun by giant, spider-like creatures. Despite the horrors outside, one of the boys named Alan has to contend with the monsters with whom he shares the cabin. And there is only so much more that he can eventually endure. Overlapping dialogue and imagery from different points in time, Tsubota uses […]
Nakanishi Mai's economical but effective new horror short is coming to the Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2023. Read my impressions.
Trailer for this drama about Japanese Americans wrestling with their family's connection to the internment of their ancestors at the onset of the Pacific War.
Trailer for this fusion of analog stop-motion puppets carved out of wood and the thrilling action of Japanese anime.
Impressions of Hayakawa Chie's thought-provoking debut feature starring Baisho Chieko which world premiered at Cannes.