Favorite films

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  Bullet Train 2022

  ½ Watched 30 May 2023 1

  "The Art of Japanese Fate" your American friend hands you a book with this name. From the author's name, it's evident that this is from a Western perspective. You remembered that time back in that hotel celebrating your siblings' birthday, you passed by a few American tourists sitting by the pool. They greet you in a mock greeting, which sounds Chinese, or what it sounds like to them, which is weird, because you're not Chinese. You walk pass them with…

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  Haruhara-san's Recorder 2021

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 May 2023

  Blue skied park
  bright transit in a few days.
  Three people walked around the village.
  Kotake-mukaihara around the coffeehouse. Towards seeing
  our tranquility;
  familiality.

  In this park,
  a sleeping woman
  remembers, her loved one
  of years gone by,
  forgetting memories

  In this coffeehouse,
  the siblings talk
  and talk
  about their mother
  of years gone by,
  forgetting connections

  Fake hand-crafted jewelry
  loyalty
  The gift of people unrelated by blood
  buried within the internal world
  recollecting
  reminiscing
  remembering - in every day
  and in every night

Popular reviews

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  Swing Girls 2004

  ★★★★★ Watched 07 Mar 2021

  Meeting jazz. Food poisoning the brass band. Accidentally killing a boar and getting rewarded for it. Selling a Playstation console for instruments. Everyone in the cast whose character plays their respective instruments learned for real behind the scenes. Hawaii. The brilliant chemistry. Small and giant landing comedic moments. Slacking to swinging. And a boy. Pure joy, just teenagers making themselves and the world better through musical influence. Jazz mouse. The hyperactive energy of Dance With Me may win over me more, but Swing Girls takes it's joyful veins in a slightly more understated route, one that goes into specially unique and rewarding ones.

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  Made in Hong Kong 1997

  ★★★★★ Watched 13 Sep 2020

  Fruit Chan is like the angrier Wong Kar-wai. Psychological love is present but stripped down, and the only thing left is angst. Dreaminess fills the entire film, our characters want to dream, but nihlism eventually takes over and the only reward they get is nothing but shattered hopes and dreams. Features a low-key optimistic version of the cemetary scene from Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind.