Movies completed in 2025
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1. Serpent's Path
Japanese Movie - 1998
Serpent’s Path is the 1st half of a two-part project on revenge that Kurosawa successfully managed to make with a low budget, in only a month's time.
Dark, unsettling, with excessive raw violence -both mental and physical- and full of vengeance, this film is an intense, not fully explained story but nonetheless an engaging watch.
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2. Amalock
Japanese Movie - 2024
A unique story of an unconventional family with some unusual family dynamics, great bonding, a few subtle social commentaries and heartwarming life lessons.
Eguchi Noriko's eloquent and measured performance and her bickering with Nakajo Ayami were the film's highlights.
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3. Daughters
Japanese Movie - 2020
A story about friendship, single-motherhood and coming-of-age told through the life of two best friends and roommates and their relationship's evolution and re-definition.
Visually pleasing, with a contemporary vibe, vivid coloring and a hazy lighting, the depiction of their transition from a breezy adolescent life to an obligatory maturity feels painfully real and introspective.
Miyoshi Ayaka and Abe Junko's performances and their chemistry are stunning, making this a solid watch.
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4. Hebi no Michi
Japanese Movie - 2024
Watching a remake of a Japanese story in a French setting was a really surrealistic experience!
Very close to the dark and violent original version, but definitely more polished, it had an interesting role genre switch that added more mystery and a psychological depth.
A story re-told twenty six years later that is still an uncomfortable as well as engaging watch.
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5. After the Fever
Japanese Movie - 2023
Bleak, mundane and too long for its own good, this is a confusing (and dare say superficial) study on love: 'pure', obsessive, one-sided, toxic, liberating, claustrophobic, compromising love.
Though Hashimoto Ai and Nakano Taiga did their best with what they were given, this was a wearisome, pretentiously artsy, inconsistent and forgettable watch.
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