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Movie Name
Country
Release Year
Rage
Japan
2016
Lee Sang-il (Director, Writer) Ken Watanabe Mirai Moriyama Aoi Miyazaki Satoshi Tsumabuki Go Ayano Suzu Hirose Kenichi Matsuyama Hideko Hara Chizuru Ikewaki Akira Emoto Eri Fukatsu Kirin Kiki Shuichi Yoshida (Writer) Norimichi Kasamatsu (Cinematographer) Ryuichi Sakamoto (Soundtrack)
Reviewed by Simon (Sunday, November 1, 2020)
Mr. Long
Japan
2017
Sabu (Director, Writer) Ritsuko Ohkusa Tarô Suwa Masashi Arifuku Bai Run-yin Yao Yi Ti Shô Aoyagi Chang Chen Sho Aoyagi Taro Suwa Junichi Matsumoto (Soundtrack) Kôichi Furuya (Cinematographer)
Act cool and don't say anything (Sunday, February 21, 2021)
Before We Vanish
Japan
2017
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Director, Writer) Masami Nagasawa Ryuhei Matsuda Mahiro Takasugi Yuri Tsunematsu Hiroki Hasegawa Atsuko Maeda Shinnosuke Mitsushima Tomohiro Maekawa (Writer) Sachiko Tanaka (Writer) Akiko Ashizawa (Cinematographer)
Interesting concept but rather sterile execution (Saturday, March 6, 2021)
Hanagatami
Japan
2017
Nobuhiko Obayashi (Director, Writer) Shunsuke Kubozuka Honoka Yahagi Takako Tokiwa Shinnosuke Mitsushima Keishi Nagatsuka Hirona Yamazaki Tokio Emoto Mugi Kadowaki Takehiro Murata Wakaba Irie Toshie Negishi Takao Ito Kazuo Dan (Writer) Chiho Katsura (Writer) Hisaki Sanbongi (Cinematographer)
If war is worth dying for, so is a festival (Friday, May 14, 2021)
Samui Song
Thailand
2017
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Director, Writer) Ploy Boonyasak David Asavanond Vithaya Pansringarm Stéphane Sednaoui Karen Gemma Dodgson Palika Suwannarak Chankit Chamnivikaipong (Cinematographer)
Tries too hard to confound the audience (Sunday, August 15, 2021)
Human, Space, Time and Human
South Korea
2018
Kim Ki-Duk (Director, Writer) Jang Keun-Suk Ryu Seung-Beom Ahn Sung-Ki Mina Fujii Lee Sung-Jae Joe Odagiri Tae Hang-Ho
Waste of space, time and human (Tuesday, September 1, 2020)
Burning
South Korea
2018
Lee Chang-Dong (Director, Writer) Yoo Ah-In Steven Yeun Jun Jong-Seo Kim Soo-Kyung Choi Seung-Ho Moon Sung-Geun Haruki Murakami (Writer) Hong Kyung-Pyo (Cinematographer)
Burning Slowly (Sunday, April 18, 2021)
Last Letter
China
2018
Shunji Iwai (Director, Writer, Soundtrack) Zhou Xun Qin Hao Du Jiang Zhang Zifeng Deng Enxi Bian Tianyang Wu Yanshu Hu Changlin Tan Zhuo Hu Ge Wu Nan (Writer) Chigi Kanbe (Cinematographer)
Another gem from Shunji Iwai (Sunday, May 30, 2021)
The Forest of Love
Japan
2019
Sion Sono (Director, Writer) Kippei Shiina Shinnosuke Mitsushima Kyoko Hinami Eri Kamataki Young Dais Natsuki Kawamura Yuzuka Nakaya Dai Hasegawa Chiho Fujii Tsukino Yamamoto Manaka Kinoshita Miyu Kinoshita Yuki Nagashima Gaku Sano Kenji Katoh (Soundtrack) Sôhei Tanikawa (Cinematographer)
Cinema is life, you know (Sunday, August 16, 2020)
Bullets of Justice
Kazakhstan
2019
Valeri Milev (Director) Danny Trejo Timur Turisbekov Doroteya Toleva Yana Marinova Ester Chardaklieva Dessy Slavova Orlin Ruevski (Cinematographer)
Weird in ways I never imagined a film could be weird (Wednesday, October 21, 2020)