Film Review: ‘Sailor Suit and Machine Gun’ captures the evanescent state of a demure teenage orphan inheriting her father’s yakuza clan and forced into the trials...
Director Chie Hayakawa spoke to The Natural Aristocrat about her powerful film ‘Plan 75’. Discussing the social isolation of Japanese seniors, age discrimination in the labor...
Review: Punk Samurai is a completely over the top, precision satire of government bureaucracy introducing their own self-made religious cult… Then fighting it. Third Window Films...
If your child died in a freak accident partially caused by your own negligent mistake… Could you ever forgive yourself? In film ‘Love Life’, a young...
‘Woman of the Photographs‘ is a rich social media commentary on the obsessive need to photoshop photos to perfection for likes & engagement… To the point...
New York City’s IFC Center will screen 5 new Japanese films this February 10 – February 16, 2023 from Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs (ACA). The...
‘Love Letter’ is a tale of two women trading honey soaked memories of a man buried under snowfall but who still melts their hearts after death....
‘April Story’ is a slice of life film engineered on subtlety and soft-spoken loneliness. Your winter sweater shimmering in the sunlight giving you away as a...
‘Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?’ is a bittersweet coming of age film about a pool race by two boys competing...
Director Mayu Nakamura spoke to The Natural Aristocrat® about her episodic feature film, ‘She is me, I am her’. Perhaps, no scene in 2022 cinema will...