Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Shoplifters 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  What I love most about Koreeda is the fact that what hits us so hard in his films is the face of reality. Even though this is not a true story, like Nobody Knows, it is true and present in many “families” and families, not only in Japan.

  The overthinking is what hurts the most in reality.

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  Nobody Knows 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Mar 2025

  Knowing it is a true story and reading about the 1988 sugamo case makes this incredibly sad film become one of the saddest of all time.

  This one will stick with me for a while…

Popular reviews

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  Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2025

  Probably my fifth favorite, if letterboxd had a fifth place. This is my 6th or 7th time seeing this masterpiece and it keeps getting better. To me this is peak Park Chan Wook. I’ll come back here in a while.

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  Kids Return 1996

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Feb 2025

  First Kitano film I watch and I think I’m already a fan. Just add yaoi to the genre, come on… The way Shinji looks at Masaru, can’t trick no one buddy…

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