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Kamen Rider 555 2003
Nothing lasts forever. The happy times, the sad times or the apathy in between. In that impermanence is what can hold us back but also what can push us forward.
A show about communication failure in an age where communicating is easier than ever. About the new forms of communication which will be used to divide more often than connect. About an almost endless apathy inherent to a generation growing up among tragedy and hopelessness. About what is natural…
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Beau Travail 1999
When service and duty erodes one’s mind just as it erodes the land.
When jealously strips you of identity just as colonialism strips a country of its identity.
When the shackles of masculinity are the greatest prison; a prison you can never escape from.Translated from by -
Three Times 2005
Chronicles how much time can change things and how little anything changes at all.
Hou was prolific at capturing that cyclical nature of history, and it’s on full display here.Desire and yearning are restless feelings that exist throughout every period, throughout every history, throughout all three times.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
A complete portrait of a man. His insecurities, his unstoppable yearning, his middle aged hypocrisy, the masks he hid behind and the masks he wrote about, his boyhood desires which determined his life and his longing to step out of the performance which was his adult life.
That longing and desire is most important. Mishima’s life was consumed by a longing for things that would always be unrequited, whether that be glory in death or the transgressive love he desired…Translated from by -
The World of Kanako 2014
The World of Kanako is one of juxtapositions. The juxtaposition between clashing genres and tones, between how we view ourselves and how society views us, between mysteries and answers, between stories and reality.
The film is a story about stories, about the friction that comes from the expectations of your fantasies being firmly rejected by reality. Through the tropes and conventions of a neo-noir film and a teen romance film, we follow the protagonists as they fall deeper and deeper…
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