Films I saw at Melbourne Japanese Film Festival 2019
The one big time Australia is exposed to Japanese Cinema. Here are my picks listed and ranked how I liked them.
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- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorKôjirô HashimotoStarsKatrina BourdoLeigh CarmichaelTomiko ClaireA popular high school band is scouted by a Tokyo-based record company. The band is involved in a car accident, however, shattering many hopes. The band receives a demo tape from a girl who lives on the navy base. They are reinvigorated.
- DirectorShinsuke SatoStarsKento YamazakiRyô YoshizawaMasami NagasawaIn ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.
- DirectorShô MiyakeStarsTasuku EmotoShizuka IshibashiTomomitsu AdachiA love triangle that captures all the magic and melancholy of a summer, concentrating on the fleeting moments and encounters experienced by its three protagonists.
- DirectorSeiji TanakaStarsYôji MinagawaYoshitomo IsozakiMebuki YoshidaKazuhiko, a graduate of a prestigious university, wasn't enjoying his life, until he takes a job at a bathhouse. Then he discovers that the baths are used as a space for killing people after closing hours.
- DirectorYusaku MatsumotoStarsUrara AnjoHiroshi FuseSuzu HyugaEight years have passed from the Akihabara massacre. A pop star whose mother was killed in the incident, a teenager who left her home to Akihabara, a delivery boy who turns his directionless anger to the city. This is a story about the characters striving to grasp the string of hope within the darkness surrounding the city, the incident, and the people.
- DirectorMasaaki YuasaStarsRyôta KatayoseRina KawaeiHonoka MatsumotoA surfer and firefighter meet and fall in love.
- DirectorShunji MugurumaStarsShôdai FukuyamaManami HashimotoChihiro HayamaWhen the rock band JoKers broke up one member flew over to be with the yankees and try to make a living there. Another one decided to focus on his schooling and become a university graduate instead of continue on with music. Two others are still hopeful their music career can be put back together. To rekindle all members' love for rock one of the members is hired to coach all-girl band Drop Doll. In the meanwhile, the girls are improving.