Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Landscape in the Mist 1988

  ★★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  Perfectly captures all the ugliness and beauty of life. This is not a coming-of-age film, but a film about the world and people, all of their cruelties and all of their lovingness. Watching this was such an amazing experience: I felt horror and disgust, I felt hopelessness, I felt pure sadness, and then I felt amazement, I felt hopefulness, I felt as if all of this really has meaning. So immersive and beautiful to look at too. Only 4.5 stars…

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  Caterpillar 1988

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  A slow descent into industrial chaos, with a weird cyberpunk caterpillar thing. God, I love how Fukui films make me physically ill, all 3 I've seen so far; can't wait to buy the 964 Pinocchio 88 films release when it comes out in like a week.

Popular reviews

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  My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? 2005

  ★★★★ Watched 27 Feb 2025

  Another mysterious emotion evoker. This is a truly unique film, and even though I've checked it off my watchlist, I won't just forget about this: it is truly significant. From what I get, it's a metaphor for the declining mental health in early 2000s Japan (which I knew about from Persona 3 btw) and just suicide in general. I think it's a representation of the suicidal experience and trying to disassociate with one's self, shown in the film as noise…

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  The Happiness of the Katakuris 2001

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Feb 2025

  Just simply writing about this film is an insult to it, I want to express my feelings to this through an interpretive dance performance