Film Review: All Around Us (Gururi no Koto) – A Film By Tomoyuki Furumaya

Has some light hearted comedy moments to contrast with the pathos!

All Around Us (screened as part of the ICA Japanese cinema season Whose Film Is It Anyway?  Contemporary Japanese Auteurs) is a film directed by Tomoyuki Furumaya about the lives of a young married couple, Kanao (Franky Lily) and Shoko (Kimura Tae) in the months leading up to and the ten years after the death of

Film Review: Heart, Beating In The Dark (2005) – A Film By Shunichi Nagasaki

A new view on the relationship between the past and the present!

Heart, Beating in the Dark (screened as part of the ICA Japanese cinema season Whose Film Is It Anyway?  Contemporary Japanese Auteurs)  is partially a remake of and a sequel to Shunichi Nagasaki’s 1982 film of the same name, incorporating