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  • Eureka
  • Drive My Car
  • Yi Yi
  • Love Streams

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  • Eureka

    ★★★★★

  • Diary of a Country Priest

    ★★★★

  • Tokyo Sonata

    ★★★★★

  • Pulse

    ★★★★★

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  • Eureka

    Eureka

    ★★★★★

    "Do you think one can live only for others?"

    A bleak, empty sepia color. Lost voices and colors. Nonverbal communication. An irreparable loss. A major life-changing event. Alienation from society. The survivors wander on the edge of death. An quest of recovery and renewal from trauma. Liberation from the curse of death. Bus re-starts. Coming to terms with the past. A journey with no destination.

  • Tokyo Sonata

    Tokyo Sonata

    ★★★★★

    "You’re the only person that can be you. That’s all we have to hold onto."

    Wind blowing in through the window. Family turmoil and disintegration. Roles played in the home. Where everyone has a secret to each other. Boundaries with others. Repressed family relationships. Communication breakdown. Loss of identity. The beautiful sound of the piano shines a light of hope on the family.

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  • Still Walking

    Still Walking

    ★★★★★

    "I'm always a little late."

    Late summer homecoming. A family gathers on the anniversary of their eldest son's death. Absence of family. Mother's cooking, pink flowers in full bloom, yellow butterfly, record, summer sea, a visit to a grave, slope stairs. The soccer match he never got to take his father to. The car that could not carry his mother.

  • Serpent's Path

    Serpent's Path

    ★★★½

    Endless revenge. Loss of purpose. At the end of revenge there is nothing left. What is really painful is that it never ends. Something more terrible than death itself. The cycle of violence. The depths of human darkness. Emptiness. The inorganic disquiet. Unpleasant noises, gunshots, Ruins, Translucent curtains. Ko Shibasaki's ruthless, sharp eyes. Hidetoshi Nishijima's eerie presence. He even turns Paris into a Kurosawa world.