Tag: mikakoichikawa

Osamu Minorikawa's Life Can Be So Wonderful is a film that illustrates exactly what the recent output of Japanese cinema is missing. It's a very unique, personal and free-form film that exists outside of most genre boundaries and definitions. Just...

By now you probably should've realized Sogo Ishii (August In The Water, Electric Dragon 80.000V, Kyoshin) is set firmly on my shortlist of favorite directors. I appreciate his punk approach to cinema, but he also has a softer side he's...

This one took it's sweet time getting to me from the UK, but it was definitely worth the wait.  Tetsuya Nakashima's beautiful 2006 film, Memories of Matsuko, has been available on UK DVD from Third Window for a while, but...

Our good friends over at Third Window Films in the UK have a great film coming out in high definition in one week!   Third Window have Oscar-nominated Tetsuya Nakashima's 2006 genre defying Memories of Matsuko on Blu-ray coming up...