A product of an abusive household, Mai is one day ‘saved’ from her torment when a cross-dressing killer murders her parents and spares her. Carrying this trauma into adulthood has made relationships difficult, but when she meets a man who admires the killer and has taken on his mantle, Mai is forced to relive her trauma while working through feelings for the murderer.
Parallel is screening at Black Movie
Japan is not particularly well known for slashers, ask most fans of horror and they will be hard-pressed to come up with a title worth noting that would be on par with what the West has to offer within the genre. The reason, arguably, boils down to how prevalent the genre has been prevalent in the West since the 70s while never gaining as much traction in Japan for aspiring horror filmmakers. Consequently, whenever a slasher film does come from Japan,...
Parallel is screening at Black Movie
Japan is not particularly well known for slashers, ask most fans of horror and they will be hard-pressed to come up with a title worth noting that would be on par with what the West has to offer within the genre. The reason, arguably, boils down to how prevalent the genre has been prevalent in the West since the 70s while never gaining as much traction in Japan for aspiring horror filmmakers. Consequently, whenever a slasher film does come from Japan,...
- 1/27/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
This early work of director Daiki Tanaka showcases few of the themes he will later explore in his following feature film “Parallel”, in 2021. Good and evil, trauma and redemption, reality and masks; all these alternate and swap places in a dark and sinister but at the same time aesthetically pleasing duel, in “Filament”.
Filament is streaming on TodoiF
Yusuke (Soma Fujii) is a teenage boy with a secret he cannot reveal; he can fly. He doesn’t know how that could happen as his parents are long dead and he has no way to know the reasons why he was born like that, but, as amazing as it sounds, at an age when being different from the norm is scary and overwhelming, he hasn’t found the courage to embrace his ability with confidence. In fact, despite his dream of using it to do good to others in an Ultraman-style attire,...
Filament is streaming on TodoiF
Yusuke (Soma Fujii) is a teenage boy with a secret he cannot reveal; he can fly. He doesn’t know how that could happen as his parents are long dead and he has no way to know the reasons why he was born like that, but, as amazing as it sounds, at an age when being different from the norm is scary and overwhelming, he hasn’t found the courage to embrace his ability with confidence. In fact, despite his dream of using it to do good to others in an Ultraman-style attire,...
- 10/15/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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