Last week, I got to check out the action fantasy anime feature Scarlet by Oscar nominee Mamoru Hosoda. I hadn’t seen his Oscar-nominated movie Mirai (2018) or Belle (2021), both produced by Studio Chizu, which Hosoda co-founded. It’s an ambitious animated feature that mixes 2D and 3D visuals, drawing inspiration from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The plot follows a …
Tag: Kôji Yakusho
FlixChatter Review: Perfect Days (2023) – a soulful Japanese drama about finding joy & beauty in life’s simplest moments
There’s beauty in simplicity, as the famous quote says, and German-born writer/director Wim Wenders applies that adage to this Japanese-language drama. Its protagonist Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo and the film chronicles his day-to-day life. There’s something so captivating about Hirayama’s mundane and highly regimented life that begins at …
FLIXCHATTER FILM BLOG 