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Favorite films

  • The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Sea of Vapors
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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  • Just Friends

    ★★★

  • The Zone of Interest

    ★★★★

  • Hobo with a Shotgun

    ★★½

  • Stargate

    ★★★½

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  • Constructing a House

    Constructing a House

    ★★★

    Why is no one talking about the exploitative* nudity in this film? Director ŌBAYASHI said in this exclusive interview on the Criterion Collection DVD that having to show her chest was difficult for IKEGAMI Kimiko because it was her first nude scene in her career and she was still very young at the time of shooting (18!). No reasons were given as to why she had to do this nude scene exposing her chest. No narrative reason, no studio conditions,…

  • Ramen Heads

    Ramen Heads

    ★★½

    ラーメンヘッズ

    Interesting image film about Tomita's râmen restaurant (and some others on the side). One star less for the mortal sin of using Comic Sans unironically.