Aku wa sonzai shinai - Evil Does Not Exist Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The popular Japanese writer Murakami Haruki collaborated with the emerging director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi in the film Aku wa sonzai shinai - Evil Does Not Exist, presented at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Is there a communion between the spiritual genre and magical naturalism in the film?
In a small village in a mountainous area of Japan, life proceeds peacefully, outwardly happy, with strong human relationships, sincere friendship, simple gestures, healthy food, very fresh water. Around there is an intense, vigorous nature, snow, trees, streams. Inhabitants and nature coexist peacefully, without attacking each other.
Nobi - Fires On the Plain Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
In 1942, Japan conquered the Philippines from the Americans. In 1945, they would be kicked out. Due to the geography of the Philippines, many Japanese remained isolated and stuck in the jungle. The order was to join the last military resistance in Cebu. The retreat was a massacre. The Japanese were already undernourished, without rations for a long time.
This episode is filmed by Shinya Tsukamoto in the film Nobi - Fires On the Plain presented at 71 Venice Film Festival.
A hundred flowers - Hyakka Directed by Genki Kawamura
Dialogue with an Alzheimer's patient is possible and inevitable. It is the same lexical difficulty that exists between Izumi and her mother (Yuriko), who suffers from dementia. She wants to see the “half-fireworks”. Izumi does not understand; what could be “half-fireworks”?
Izumi and Yuriko are the protagonists of the moving film A Hundred Flowers – Hyakka by director Genki Kawamura, screened at the Bangkok World Film Festival 2022.
Hokage - Shadow of Fire Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
At the end of the Second World War, the destruction of Japan, after the dropping of the two atomic bombs, had reached its peak. It wasn't just a humanitarian catastrophe. It wasn't just the material devastation of the country.
Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto proposes, with his cruel and exaggerated style, an original vision of the era and above all launches yet another anti-militarist arrow into international cinema.
At the 80th Venice International Film Festival he presented the film Hokage - Shadow of Fire, shocking for the simple representation of a pain that is still present and needs to be processed, even though many years have passed.
Pu bu – The Falls - 瀑布
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Starrings: Alyssa Chia, Gingle Wang, Lee-zen Lee, Yi-wen Chen, Hsin-yao Huang, Waa Wei, Li-Yin Yang
Country: Taiwan
Year 2021
