Satoshi Kon is an artist most commonly known for his limited, yet striking output of feature films, including “Perfect Blue”, “Millennium Actress”, “Tokyo Godfathers”, and “Paprika”. However, prior to his film debut, Kon had actually gotten his start as a manga artist, or mangaka. The work he produced in this field, though equally limited as his film output, was similarly impressive. The most notable,and the most famous of these works is “Opus,” a mind-bending dreamlike piece of metafiction, which foreshadows the themes and style of Kon's future projects.
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The manga begins in the midst of a climactic scene featuring a confrontation between the main protagonist Satoko and her nemesis. This is the first example of “Opus”‘s many illusions, as the scene is revealed to simply be a draft for an in-universe manga titled “Resonance” currently being drafted by its author.
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The manga begins in the midst of a climactic scene featuring a confrontation between the main protagonist Satoko and her nemesis. This is the first example of “Opus”‘s many illusions, as the scene is revealed to simply be a draft for an in-universe manga titled “Resonance” currently being drafted by its author.
- 7/6/2023
- by Palomo Linares
- AsianMoviePulse
Last year, with “Dosuemon”, Shingo Kanemoto gave us one of the worst Japanese movies of all time, not only for its lack of any kind of cinematic value, but also due to the offensive comments on raping, beating and stealing (from the elderly). Surprisingly, this year, he came up with a new one, which may not be as offensive as the previous one, but is definitely as amateurish.
I’ve Died a Lot Lately is screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg
Satoko Sato is a 32 years old woman, who after her grandmother’s death from Covid (in a blood vomiting scene indicative of what is about to follow), she has quit everything in life, including her job, and is just living in her parents’ house in Nara. Her parents try to make her search for a job, but she is having none of it, instead staying in her rather colorful room,...
I’ve Died a Lot Lately is screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg
Satoko Sato is a 32 years old woman, who after her grandmother’s death from Covid (in a blood vomiting scene indicative of what is about to follow), she has quit everything in life, including her job, and is just living in her parents’ house in Nara. Her parents try to make her search for a job, but she is having none of it, instead staying in her rather colorful room,...
- 6/25/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Tetsuo Shinobara‘s new film is a curiosity. If you didn’t know that the Japanese director is a very experienced one, you could think that „Inubu: Dog Club“ is the work of a novice.
“Inubu: Dog Club” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story begins in the summer 2003 at the Towada veterinary college. Four students, three men and one woman, work hard to become veterinarians. Satoko is the most idealistic one of the four. He saves every dog he can, from the streets, but also from the laboratories of the college. Satoko gets regularly in trouble with one of his professors, because of his attitude. But he can, at the same time, impress him with his enormous enthusiasm and his work ethic. His colleagues are a little less confrontative, but still they help Satoko to run the dog club he dreams of.
Together they take abandoned dogs in,...
“Inubu: Dog Club” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story begins in the summer 2003 at the Towada veterinary college. Four students, three men and one woman, work hard to become veterinarians. Satoko is the most idealistic one of the four. He saves every dog he can, from the streets, but also from the laboratories of the college. Satoko gets regularly in trouble with one of his professors, because of his attitude. But he can, at the same time, impress him with his enormous enthusiasm and his work ethic. His colleagues are a little less confrontative, but still they help Satoko to run the dog club he dreams of.
Together they take abandoned dogs in,...
- 6/20/2022
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
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