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Favorite films

  • Autumn Sonata
  • Ikiru
  • Demons
  • The Man Who Sleeps

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  • When Life Gives You Tangerines

    ★★★★★

  • Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions

    ★★★★

  • It's Okay to Not Be Okay

  • Your Lie in April

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The Blue Sky Maiden

1957

★★★★½ Liked Watched

This is my fourth entry into Masumura’s filmography and it is quite different from rest of his work. Simplicity is beauty. Wakao's characterization is engaging because her motivation is as clear as the blue sky. She kinda reminds me of Audrey Hepburn. Masumura's approach is rather complex and sophisticated in the way he skilfully weaved various elements - colors (especially red and blue), stairs and the act of closing eyes.

Ultimately, this fast-paced comedy is immensely charming and filled with pure joy, like a warmth of a blanket. The table tennis scene is unforgettable!

The Death King

1990

★★★½ 4

As a med student, watching a corpse gradually disintegrate was the highlight of my evening. 

Jokes apart, the amount of existential dread I’m feeling after watching this is unmatched. So bleak, so moody, that I would highly recommend those suffering from clinical depression to look elsewhere.

Seven days, Seven stories. All of them are beautifully shot, a unique quality that Buttgereit brings to many of his films; the ability to at once show beauty and despair, art and horror. But…

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Mirrored Mind

2005

★★★★ Liked Watched

“I can’t concentrate. I can’t create. I can’t write. I feel like I lost something vital in my heart.” 

For someone who often loses her will to live, this movie felt like the warmth of a blanket that cocoons you while there’s a raging storm outside. My own personal nirvana.

Kisapmata

1981

★★★★ Liked Watched

This is my first filipino movie so obviously I had no expectations but damn, that was fucking intense. 

Based on a real life murder scandal dating from 1961, it’s a carefully handled story of incestuous obsession, bolstered by strong performances, builds to a climax which would be melodramatic in less skilful hands. But on the way it also paints a frightening portrait of terrible family tensions, edge-of-insanity patriarchy, and Catholic repression which makes its wider social implications abundantly and devastatingly…

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