No context, just the present! 5 personages, 3 languages: how to understand each other, in time of peace and during conflicts.
Cast: Kyoko Hasegawa, Grégoire Colin, Jun Murakam
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writers: Kyôko Inukai (screenplay), Naomi Kawase (screenplay)
Cinematography by Caroline Champetier
Film Editing by Dominique Auvray, Yûsuke Kaneko, Naomi Kawase
Structure, personages, scarce dialogues with the story being told through the images, blending of anthropological veracity and sensitivity are very similar to those found in Moe No Suzaku.
Cast: Kohei Fukungaga, Yuka Hyyoudo, Naomi Kawase
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: Naomi Kawase
Music by Ua
Cinematography by Yutaka Yamazaki
Film Editing by Shôtarô Anraku, Naomi Kawase, Tomoh Sanjo
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara, Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney
Director: Angelina Jolie
Screenplay: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Richard Lagravenese, William Nicholson
Director of Photography: Roger Deakins
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Film Editing: William Goldenberg, Tim Squyres
A look both anthropological and sensitive on the disappearance of traditional life in the Japanese mountains – The dialogues are sparse, but the leitmotifs guide us. Solid camera work
Cast: Jun Kunimura, Machiko Ono, Sachiko Izumi
Director: Naomi Kawase
Writer: Naomi Kawase
Music by Masamichi Shigeno
Cinematography by Masaki Tamura
Film Editing by Shûichi Kakesu
The world of Japanese high school teenagers: their preoccupations are recognizable, but they somehow differ on the values on which they build their relationships
Cast: Haruna Kawaguchi, Kento Yamazaki, Seika Furuhata
Director: Shôsuke Murakami
Writer: Matcha Hazuki (manga)
Music by Yutaka Yamada
An intricate story approaching time differently (a mix of Memento with (500) Days Of Summer).
A fantastic script that deserves a better direction and a much better musical score!
Cast: Sôta Fukushi, Nana Komatsu, Masahiro Higashide
Director: Takahiro Miki
Writers: Takafumi Nanatsuki (based on the novel by), Tomoko Yoshida (screenplay)
Music by Suguru Matsutani
Cinematography: Kousuke Yamada
Edited by Naoya Bandō
Fantastic images, good humor
Confusing scenario, weak personage, lack of message
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawaj
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writer: Kôhan Kawauchi
Music: Hajime Kaburagi
Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine
Editing: Shinya Inoue
An exceptional movie
A prostitute falls in love for the first time and this new feeling puts her survival strategy at risk. When she asks the man she loves about it, he answers: “How am I supposed to know heavy stuff like that?”
Actors: Jô Shishido, Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Writers: Taijirô Tamura (novel), Gorô Tanada
Music: Naozumi Yamamoto
Cinematography: Shigeyoshi Mine
Editing: Akira Suzuki
Cast: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds, Issei Ogata
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese; based on the novel by Shûsaku Endô
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Editor: Thelma Schoonmaker
Composer: Kathryn Kluge, Kim Allen Kluge