Tag: naominishida

Review: KOFUKU NO KANE (Personal Favorites #20)

Kofuku no Kane is what happens when three of my favorite Japanese film people get together to make film. It's the highpoint in the oeuvre of director Hiroyuki Tanaka (Usagi Drop, Monday, Kanikosen), which wasn't shy of good films to...

THE LONGEST NIGHT IN SHANGHAI review

(And another film with no ScreenAnarchy review. Allow me to put that right.) The Longest Night in Shanghai could have been a disaster. It's a formula rom-com at heart, yet another riff on Pygmalion where a glossy pan-Asian cast is...