The 18th edition of the Osaka Asian Film Festival (Oaff 2023) will close with “Side by Side”, the second feature film from veteran screenwriter Ito Chihiro.
After a career of writing hit films like “Crying Out Love in the Center of the World”, Ito Chihiro makes her second film as director, “Side by Side”, a drama with a magical realist twist that follows a young man who can sense the thoughts of other people. Produced by award-winning director Yukisada Isao, it features leading star Sakaguchi Kentaro, together with an excellent cast that includes Saito Asuka, Asaka Kodai, Isomura Ameri, and Ichikawa Mikako.
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Miyama (Sakaguchi Kentaro) is a mysterious young man with the ability to sense the thoughts of other people. These thoughts sometimes take the form of a spirit that haunts Miyama. With this power, he can detect and heal people suffering from physical ailments and emotional traumas. He does...
After a career of writing hit films like “Crying Out Love in the Center of the World”, Ito Chihiro makes her second film as director, “Side by Side”, a drama with a magical realist twist that follows a young man who can sense the thoughts of other people. Produced by award-winning director Yukisada Isao, it features leading star Sakaguchi Kentaro, together with an excellent cast that includes Saito Asuka, Asaka Kodai, Isomura Ameri, and Ichikawa Mikako.
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Miyama (Sakaguchi Kentaro) is a mysterious young man with the ability to sense the thoughts of other people. These thoughts sometimes take the form of a spirit that haunts Miyama. With this power, he can detect and heal people suffering from physical ailments and emotional traumas. He does...
- 2/9/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
At this year’s Toronto Japanese Film Festival Isao Yukisada presents his newest film about a complexe love story. The film with the poetic title „The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese“ is based on the manga series of the same title, published between 2005 and 2006. Yukisada gave life to the characters invented by author and illustrator Setona Mizushiro. The latter collaborated in the writing of the screenplay.
“The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
In this a bit overlong drama, the protagonists are Kyouchi, Imagase and Natsuki. Kyouchi is a salary man. He escapes his boring life and monotone marriage by having an affair. His wife find out about it and hires a private detective to get proof and ask for a divorce. Imagase happens to be an old youth friend of Kyouchi. He takes the chance to confess to the latter that he always...
“The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
In this a bit overlong drama, the protagonists are Kyouchi, Imagase and Natsuki. Kyouchi is a salary man. He escapes his boring life and monotone marriage by having an affair. His wife find out about it and hires a private detective to get proof and ask for a divorce. Imagase happens to be an old youth friend of Kyouchi. He takes the chance to confess to the latter that he always...
- 6/27/2021
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s 10th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival (Tjff) will be presented across Canada from Saturday, June 5 to Sunday, 27, 2021. During this period, Tjff screenings will be held online, using the Cinesend festival platform, with select onsite screenings at the Jccc’s Kobayashi Hall planned for October, public health protocols permitting. The festival is one of the largest film events of its kind in the world and is recognized by the Japanese film industry as a vital conduit for bringing Japanese film to international audiences.
“When we held the first Toronto Japanese Film Festival, we never dreamed we’d be celebrating our 10th anniversary during a pandemic, said Tjff Director James Heron. “We also never dreamed the festival would be so well attended, loved by Toronto audiences and embraced by Japanese directors and actors as the place to introduce their films to North American audiences. On this...
“When we held the first Toronto Japanese Film Festival, we never dreamed we’d be celebrating our 10th anniversary during a pandemic, said Tjff Director James Heron. “We also never dreamed the festival would be so well attended, loved by Toronto audiences and embraced by Japanese directors and actors as the place to introduce their films to North American audiences. On this...
- 5/13/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
In the spirit of “Thelma and Louise,” a lesbian fugitive and the woman she’d kill for hit the road with three stilettos and a blood-red BMW in “Ride or Die.” A glammed up, erotically-charged cocktail of amour fou and true romance directed by Ryuichi Hiroki and written by Nami Kikkawa, the Netflix production gives agency to full-blooded female protagonists. That’s a rarity in Japan’s studio-dominated, cookie-cutter entertainment industry, which explains its liberating, inexhaustible energy.
Based on the adult-skewing manga “Gunjo” (Ultramarine) by Ching Nakamura, the film stars actor-model Kiko Mizuhara (“Norwegian Wood”) and actor-musician Honami Sato. The two celebs’ graphic sex scenes and full-frontal nudity are bound to be a talking point in Japan, where managers usually exert such tight control over their actors’ public image they forbid anything risqué. Given such a system, the audacity and ardor Mizuhara and Sato generated on screen prove their commitment.
Based on the adult-skewing manga “Gunjo” (Ultramarine) by Ching Nakamura, the film stars actor-model Kiko Mizuhara (“Norwegian Wood”) and actor-musician Honami Sato. The two celebs’ graphic sex scenes and full-frontal nudity are bound to be a talking point in Japan, where managers usually exert such tight control over their actors’ public image they forbid anything risqué. Given such a system, the audacity and ardor Mizuhara and Sato generated on screen prove their commitment.
- 4/15/2021
- by Maggie Lee
- Variety Film + TV
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