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Japan

  • Story of a Prostitute

    I’ve had this Criterion DVD kicking around for a number of years and have repeatedly put off watching it. Now I finally have gotten around to seeing it, I’m kicking… Read More

  • The Woodsman and the Rain

    A gentle, sweet-natured story of the unlikely friendship between a young rookie filmmaker (Oguri Shun) who comes to the countrysie to shoot a zombie movie, and a reclusive lumberjack (Yakusho… Read More

  • Dispatch 15 – PiFan 2012

    After an extended hiatus we have returned! In our latest dispatch Fernando and I discuss the many cinematic delights of this year’s PiFan Film Festival in South Korea, highlightng films… Read More

  • Norwegian Wood

    Norwegian Wood

    Although a fan of the writings of Haruki Murakami, I never really gelled with NORWEGIAN WOOD, arguably his most popular novel. Give me the surrealist eccentricities of HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND… Read More