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Terrible taste. Trash reviewer.

Favorite films

  • Perfect Days
  • Secret Sunshine
  • Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots
  • My Sweet Grappa Remedies

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  • An American Werewolf in London

    ★★★½

  • Brainscan

    ★★½

  • Flow

  • The Vourdalak

    ★★★

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  • Town Without Sea

    Town Without Sea

    ★★★½

    Really good debut by Ikeda and a really lovely performance by Kura Yuki, he has a very expressive face and makes the character very relatable. Not that he wouldn't be relatable to me anyway, tbh.

    There are many kinds of happiness in the world, you just have to find your own, maybe it's closer than you think, maybe it's the journey, maybe you forgot what it was for a while and you are now rediscovering it, maybe it's a happiness you think you want or maybe it's simply the beauty of a blue bird. Give it time, be gentle, remember your friends.

  • We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

    We Made a Beautiful Bouquet

    ★★★½

    You know society has really worn you down when you fall asleep during a Kaurismäki film.

    There is this scene in the jdrama Higuma where the main character starts crying while saying, "I am so happy." directly followed by "I am sad." and when asked why, it's simply because "This happy moment will end." I feel that jdramas and films really get that, that happiness is bittersweet because it can't last forever but that is also what makes it worth…

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  • Brainscan

    Brainscan

    ★★½

    It's not about making sense, it is about Death, Death, Death.

  • Flow

    Flow

    I lost approximately 10 years of my life watching this!!

    Solidarity will get us through if we ever learn from animals, that is.

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  • Aloners

    Aloners

    ★★★

    My God, I'm so lonely
    So I open the window
    To hear sounds of people
    To hear sounds of people

    So I open the TV and my phone to hear the sounds of people. Also, to prevent a single thought from occurring.

    Hearing the connection sound eternally but not connecting, longing for the past... Till the connection finally goes through, till the past lets go. I saw a ghost yesterday and that ghost was me and it was also everyone I never met.

    Show some sympathy, give it a try, turn off the TV, open your heart.

  • My Broken Mariko

    My Broken Mariko

    ★★★

    Grief is just love with no place to go.