Miike’s filmography isn’t just vast but varied, too.
This crime thriller is an excellentaddition to the yakuza genre.
It also has a sequel,The Last of the Wolves, made in 2021.
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The Blood of Wolvesis set in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1988.
The movie is laced with an unease and tension that’s hard to shake even after finishing it.
Creepyis laced with an unease and tension that’s hard to shake even after finishing it.
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As Miike would say, “Dont cry over missing funds and resources.
This sleeper hit also offersa meta-commentary on filmmaking.
This plot is just one small part of the movie, which is thematically divided into three parts.
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It’s also one of the longest movies in Japanese cinema, sitting neatly at around 317 minutes.
It’sa touching tribute to boyhood and mothersand a gentlecoming-of-age storyeveryone should see at least once.
Some 70 years later,Godzilla Minus Onetakes the stage and shines as brightly as the first majorKaijumotion picture.
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Reviving theGodzillafranchise from the Japanese perspective gives the movie a fresh narrative and uses impressive visual effects.
The story then takes multiple perspectives and introduces furthercomplexities that can’t be deemed as just black or white.
The Japanese perfectionist attitude shines through Shinkai, who, hopefully, later accepted thatYour Nameis great as is.
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It didn’t win the Oscar, but it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
Think ofYasujiro Ozu’sTokyo Story,but modernized and depressingly placed in the claws of capitalism.
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