It's been just over a month since my first trip to Japan, and I'm still feeling a bit of 'withdrawal' from that incredible experience. My husband and I really miss everything about it—the cleanliness, the punctual public transport, the politeness of the locals, and so on. So when I got the opportunity to cover the …
Tag: Japanese cinema
FlixChatter Review: RENOIR (2025) – 1980s Tokyo seen through the eyes of a precocious, imaginative young girl
This review focuses on the Japanese film that came out this year, not to be confused with the 2012 French movie sharing the same title about the famous painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The story and the filmmaking approach definitely pay homage to Renoir, as writer/director Chie Hayakawa uses an "impressionistic" style, weaving together small, seemingly unrelated …
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