[KineJapan] Streaming film fest

[Michael Kerpan]

First report --

Ito is set in Aomori (Both  Tsugaru and  Aomori City) -- Here the main
character is a shy young woman (ery good at playing the shamisen), who gets
a job working in a maid cafe. I really liked pretty much everything about
this.

It's a Summer Film is a lot of fun . Two competing factions of a college
film club are making movies over summer vacation. One is the official
project -- the other is a "rebel" one (being made on no budget).

The Aristocrats struck me as an excellent movie about the constricted lives
of (very) upper class young women in Tokyo, whose lives are as controlled
by their families as they would have been 100 years ago. Written and
directed by women -- it really takes a look at this situation from a
woman's perspective. I hope this comes out on a subbed bluray (but I doubt
it will).

Time of  Eve is a very good science fiction anime about human-android
relations.  Nothing spectacular about the animation technically, but a
pretty decent story (with echoes of Asimov and  PK Dick).

The film I most wanted to see is not being shown here (in the USA)  --
Under the Open Sky. Miwa Nishikawa directing and Koji Yakusho as star
sounds like a promising combination.

Michael Kerpan
Boston,  MA

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 11:19 PM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

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