by Siria Fallleroni
After his first feature film “Afternoon Breezes” (1980), Hitoshi Yazaki directed “March Comes in Like a Lion” (1991), a cruel but visually stunning fable regarding the visceral relationship between siblings. Although the title is the same as the award-winning manga “March comes in like a lion”, written and illustrated by Chika Umino, the two works are poles apart. “Afternoon Breezes” depicted the main character's repressed homosexuality, showing how her crush on roommate Mitsu slowly evolves into an obsession, while his second feature revolves around the sensitive theme of incest.
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The preamble of the story is extremely straightforward as well as puzzling: “There was a boy and his sister. The girl adored her brother and hoped to one day be his lover. One day, the boy lost his memory, the girl decided to be his lover until he regained...
After his first feature film “Afternoon Breezes” (1980), Hitoshi Yazaki directed “March Comes in Like a Lion” (1991), a cruel but visually stunning fable regarding the visceral relationship between siblings. Although the title is the same as the award-winning manga “March comes in like a lion”, written and illustrated by Chika Umino, the two works are poles apart. “Afternoon Breezes” depicted the main character's repressed homosexuality, showing how her crush on roommate Mitsu slowly evolves into an obsession, while his second feature revolves around the sensitive theme of incest.
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The preamble of the story is extremely straightforward as well as puzzling: “There was a boy and his sister. The girl adored her brother and hoped to one day be his lover. One day, the boy lost his memory, the girl decided to be his lover until he regained...
- 3/30/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Three years after finishing his very successful swordsman film series Rurouni Kenshin, Keishi Otomo turns to the seemingly very different subject of traditional board games for inspiration with March Comes in Like a Lion. An adaptation of Chika Umino’s best-selling manga from 2007, Otomo has managed to squeeze plenty of taut drama out of the seemingly very static shogi, Japan’s equivalent to chess.
Starring rising star Ryunosuke Kamiki as a teenage prodigy still trying to make sense of his place in the shogi world and society in general, the pic provides a very engaging primer about both the manga’s characters...
Starring rising star Ryunosuke Kamiki as a teenage prodigy still trying to make sense of his place in the shogi world and society in general, the pic provides a very engaging primer about both the manga’s characters...
- 3/14/2017
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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