An absolutely amazing film. One that loves food almost as, or maybe even more than, it loves cinema. I need every movie to start off with Yakuza Koji Yakusho threatening people not to make noise during a movie in the theater or he'll off them. Also, it was great to see a young Ken Watanabe in this who I kept wondering who was for the first 15 minutes or so, and then it hit me whose young face I was…
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Godzilla Raids Again 1955
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I enjoy this film's premise because it feels like an all-hope-is-lost situation. They thought they defeated Godzilla the first time, but there is a second one. Not only that, but Dr. Shirezawa, who invented the Oxygen Destroyer, also died with it, so how are they possibly going to find another way to kill Godzilla? The human elements are the things I love about the Japanese films that the American versions of Godzilla never seem to get right. Tsukioka and Hidemi…
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Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire 2024
Watched this because my family had it turned on, and of course, I've seen this before, so even though I missed a few minutes, I still feel I can count this. I definitely should have jotted down some of my thoughts fresh off of watching this again because it's now March 21st, and I don't really remember what I thought of this, having seen it again. I think I did like it more this time, though I didn't hate it…
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Joint Security Area 2000
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God, what a fucking motion picture this is. The constant telling, re-telling, and re-contextualizing of what actually happened in this incident and adding more layers to make it feel fresh and more heartbreaking each time. Lee Young-ae, Lee Byung-hyun, Song Kang-ho, and Shin Ha-Kyun even though they’re all really just getting started in their acting careers at this point in time, each of them brings a performance to the table that has you waiting to see what will happen with…
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The Piano Teacher 2001
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Enigmatic. This film surely did not turn out how I thought it would but I think that's what brings it more acclaim is that it could just be this repressed piano teacher and her student having an affair but it’s much more than that. To me, I see it as the expectations we set for things but when they happen in reality we aren’t ready for what the circumstance really is going to be like. The same goes for both…
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