Sono al Tokyo International film festival, Chatrian è il presidente di giuria, la selezione è fatta da un certo tizio giapponese e mi pare che ci sia solo roba commerciale. Fra l'altro non esistono spazi sociali in questo festival, niente a che vedere con i festival europe in cui sono stato, in linea con il rinomato stile Giapponese direi... Ho visto tre film fino ad adesso, uno peggio dell'altro, oggi ho ridimensionato il programma guardando i trailer, ne vedrò uno al giorno e non mi aspetto più di tanto. Li commento in inglese per favore un po' più veloce che ho poco tempo :(
Vedendo un intervista scopro anche che è Chatrian che ha lanciato Happy Hours di Hamaguchi. Il diavolo sta nel dettaglio...
Mother Bhumi, Keat Aun Chong (2025)
I particularly disliked the very rhetorical and then forgivable conflict that the main characters have with the State. Everything else, all the dreamy stuff, is a bit more bearable, just childish and naive writing as the daughter promptly explains "let's go to a place without hatred". Sure.
She’s Got No Name, Peter Chan (2024)
Says that there is more to women that this murder gossiped story but clearly not in this movie. Too fast too shallow too commercial and the history stuff doesn't work well.
Blonde, Yûichirô Sakashita (2025)
It tries to humanise the very heavy pitch story by saying it is actually about the guy struggle, then proceeds to spend the whole film following this very bare boned idea of social change which stays only on paper, perfectly encapsulate a rhetorical all talk desire for change of a society that actually has way deeper human reasons not to change. What's even more funny is that the guy story is even less developed this, it's like 3 short scenes max with his girlfriend that hasn't much going on in her mind either. Just not much to see here. I guess that the main school girl actress is very pretty and at least has a bit of a rebellious vibe on her face that does something related to the story.
Mother Tongue, Zhang Lu (2025)
The protagonist is presented as only caring about work and then moving to marriage talks as soon as difficulties arise. The whole film tries to find her a companion as boring and drained of energy as she is.
What an horrific activity scriptwriting is when it tries to portray the average development of the average, repressed and obedient fellow human.
At least it is a story so it's better than the other movies I've watched these days.
All Greens, Takashi Koyama (2025)
A collection of stereotypes glued together, there is no story to see here.
Japanese audiences are fed a constant stream of these pseudo rebellious tales in which nothing really exists and childish morals seal every possible opening. On a more emotional level the script completely ignores why its characters have so much difficulties in living and loving, an excruciating watch.