Josee, the Tiger and the Fish revisits Seiko Tanabe’s 1984 short story about the relationship between two young people, one of whom is disabled and relies on a wheelchair for mobility, as they challenge each other and societal norms in this coming of age youth drama. In Josee, the Tiger and the Fish, Tsuneo Suzukawa […]
Children of the Sea is the kind of film that is difficult to read based on the official art – the direction suggests a serious, even sombre narrative with potential lashings of social commentary and underwater adventure. At least that was my take on it at first glance. In practice it’s an entirely different – […]
After coming across a mysterious diary in a hospital, a high school student discovers that his classmate Sakura Yamauchi has a terminal illness in her pancreas and doesn’t have long to live. Although the discovery was by accident, Sakura begins to hang out with the student, as he is the only one outside of her […]
The Rolling Girls is fascinating – it presents a hyperactive, technicolour dreamscape peppered with a high-energy soundtrack and delivered in a fascinating post-apocalytpic setting that in many ways is the opposite of what we’d normally expect from such a scenario, anime or non. The question is on how it uses these different elements and if […]