Look Back, 2026.Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Fuuri Nanase, Rokka Okada, Masaki Suda, Kankuro Kudo, Kayo Noro, Ryo Ikeda, Miyu Sasaki, and Maho Yamada.SYNOPSIS:Two manga artists meet and develop a bond over making manga.For those unfamiliar with the Tatsuki Fujimoto manga that co-writer/director Hirokazu Koreeda’s Look Back is based on (which itself was […]
2026 BFI London Film Festival Review – Look Back
Look Back, 2026.Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita, Fuuri Nanase, Rokka Okada, Masaki Suda, Kankuro Kudo, Kayo Noro, Ryo Ikeda, Miyu Sasaki, and Maho Yamada.SYNOPSIS:Two manga artists meet and develop a bond over making manga.Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot web manga Look Back was something of a phenomenon on publication in 2021, spawning a […]
Movie Review – The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)
The Samurai and the Prisoner, 2026.Written and Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Masahiro Motoki, Masaki Suda, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Munetaka Aoki, Ryota Miyadate, Tasuku Emoto, Joe Odagiri, Yusuke Santamaria, Mitsuo Yoshihara, Ryota Bando, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Ikkei Watanabe, Yoshimasa Kondo, Toshihiro Yashiba, Masatoshi Kihara, Yamato Kochi, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Shusaku Kamikawa, Oshirō Maeda, and Shingo Bando.SYNOPSIS:Set […]
Trailer for Japanese historical drama The Samurai and the Prisoner
Janus Films has shared a poster and trailer for The Samurai and the Prisoner, the Japanese historical drama from writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa.Based on Honobu Yonezawa’s novel Kokurojo, the film sees Lord Murashige Araki besieged in his own castle. With the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda’s army closing in and a series of mysterious crimes shattering his court, […]
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s psychological thriller Cloud gets a trailer
Ahead of its US release later this month, Janus Films has shared a poster and trailer for writer-director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Pulse) psychological thriller Cloud.Masaki Suda stars as Yoshii, a man involved in the shady world of black market reselling who begins to suspect that his former victims are plotting revenge against him; check out the […]
Movie Review – The Boy and the Heron (2023)
The Boy and the Heron, 2023.Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring the voice talents of Soma Santoki, Aimyon, Ko Shibasaki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Yoshino Kimura, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa, Karen Takizawa, Shinobu Otake, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Shōhei Hino.SYNOPSIS:Through encounters with his friends and uncle, follows a teenage boy’s psychological […]
Movie Review – The Boy and the Heron (2023)
The Boy and the Heron, 2023.Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring of the voice talents of Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Aimyon, and Yoshino Kimura.SYNOPSIS:Through encounters with his friends and uncle, The Boy and the Heron follows a teenage boy’s psychological development. He enters a magical world with a talking grey heron after finding an abandoned tower […]
