The movie version of Machiko Kyo’s incredibly harsh source manga opens with a disclaimer that this is a fictionalized account, though it is based on true events. In the documentary which follows the movie (which is only a bit over an hour long) in its theatrical run, director Toko Ina mentions that the intent ofContinue reading “Review: cocoon – One Summer of Girlhood”
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Movie Review: Jinsei
Jinsei can also refer to a 2014 anime series concerning an advice column, but in this case it refers to the full-length movie by anime newcomer Ryuya Suzuki, which was released in Japan in the summer of 2025 and has seen a modest release in U.S. theaters during June 2026. This 93 minute project wasContinue reading “Movie Review: Jinsei”
Belle
Mamoru Hosoda is a director whose works I have had somewhat mixed reactions to. While I very much liked his Summer Wars, I found his Wolf Children to be too much a paean to an impossibly perfect mother. (I have never gotten around to seeing The Boy and the Beast or Mirai.) Hence I wasContinue reading “Belle”
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