“Your Lovely Smile” is a rather weird film. Despite the fact that is Lim Kah-wai’s work, the style essentially follows Hirobumi Watanabe’s low-budget, self-starring, self-deprecating, ironic and realistic approach to cinema, with the former’s hand mostly showing in the fact that the movie is in color and follows a road-film path, although the last part also appears occasionally in the latter’s titles.
Watanabe actually stars as himself here, playing a filmmaker who, despite having won a number of awards from festivals in Japan, finds himself once more facing the harsh realities of independent filmmaking, which seem to have grown even worse after the pandemic. As the story begins, he is stranded in his hometown doing odd jobs to make a living and pass the time essentially, occasionally meeting people from the industry with similar troubles. Eventually an opportunity for a new movie appears,...
Watanabe actually stars as himself here, playing a filmmaker who, despite having won a number of awards from festivals in Japan, finds himself once more facing the harsh realities of independent filmmaking, which seem to have grown even worse after the pandemic. As the story begins, he is stranded in his hometown doing odd jobs to make a living and pass the time essentially, occasionally meeting people from the industry with similar troubles. Eventually an opportunity for a new movie appears,...
- 1/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival will now take place from June 26 till July 4.
Far East Film Festival, the Asian cinema event based in Udine in northern Italy, has postponed its 2020 edition until June this year due to the spread of coronavirus in the region.
The festival will now take place from June 26 to July 4. It had been scheduled for April 24 to May 2.
Focus Asia, the festival’s Industry Days section, will move to June 29 to July 1, while the twelfth edition of the Asia-Europe co-production workshop Ties That Bind has been confirmed for June 28 to July 2, including its new section Far East In Progress.
Far East Film Festival, the Asian cinema event based in Udine in northern Italy, has postponed its 2020 edition until June this year due to the spread of coronavirus in the region.
The festival will now take place from June 26 to July 4. It had been scheduled for April 24 to May 2.
Focus Asia, the festival’s Industry Days section, will move to June 29 to July 1, while the twelfth edition of the Asia-Europe co-production workshop Ties That Bind has been confirmed for June 28 to July 2, including its new section Far East In Progress.
- 2/27/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Watanabe’s third feature film is a very peculiar production, featuring a silent protagonist but constant talking, black and white cinematography, and a repetition that seems to be more meaningful than ever.
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
- 3/27/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Watanabe’s third feature film is a very peculiar production, featuring a silent protagonist but constant talking, black and white cinematography, and a repetition that seems to be more meaningful than ever.
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
Yusuke Mizuhara works as a lifeguard at a swimming pool, situated in a rather quiet suburb of Tokyo. He is a loner, and his life is dominated by an unwavering routine, that begins the moment he wakes up in his house, continues at the swimming pool and at a cinema after work, and finishes in his house again. Even the smallest details are dictated from this routine, as the time and the place he spends his break, for example. Apart from watching a movie each day, his only entertainment is listening to the news from his car radio and reading about them on his computer. However, the news he listens to, always deal with terrorist acts, war, and violent incidents in general,...
- 2/24/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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