Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  The Big Lebowski 1998

  ★★★½ Watched 17 Mar 2025

  dude, Let's go bowling 🥲

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  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★★ Watched 09 Mar 2025

  Mickey of the valley of the wind

Popular reviews

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  Whisper of the Heart 1995

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 26 Mar 2023

  beautiful movie. perfectly captures the ever present struggle between finding one's direction in life and enjoying the present. it made me realize that i'll probably be living and reliving the feeling of romantic longing for the rest of my life, like cycles of reincarnation, until finally i find the one. ghibli movies are for the hopeless romantics.

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  Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy 2021

  ★★★★ Watched 01 May 2024

  It's interesting to see how variably stories can play out along the same two tracks of chance and hope. Of the three vignettes, the tension in the first two entertained me the most, while the poignant and wholesome tone of the third felt out of place.  

  Overall, a pleasant intro to Hamaguchi's capabilities as a storyteller that has me adding more of his stuff to my watchlist.