It seems like the erotic industry of Japan, and partticulary its demise, is becoming a hot topic for the local industry, with “Naked Director”, “Dancing in Her Dreams” and “Dynamite Graffiti” being just few of the titles focusing on the subject and its various instances. Shoichi Yokoyama based his own film on real-life events following the 2019 decision of Japan’s three biggest convenience store chains to stop selling adult magazines, in an effort to clean up the country’s image ahead of the Olympics, by focusing on the lives of the employees of such a magazine.
“Goodbye, Bad Magazines” is screening at Hawai’i International Film Festival
The protagonist of the story, which begins a few years before 2019, is Shiori, a university grad who finds herself working in an erotic magazine, the third tier of a publishing house, despite her dreams of becoming a proper, professional writer. Starting at shredding papers,...
“Goodbye, Bad Magazines” is screening at Hawai’i International Film Festival
The protagonist of the story, which begins a few years before 2019, is Shiori, a university grad who finds herself working in an erotic magazine, the third tier of a publishing house, despite her dreams of becoming a proper, professional writer. Starting at shredding papers,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Title: Like Someone In Love Sundance Selects Director: Abbas Kiarostami Screenwriter: Abbas Kiarostami Cast: Rin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase, Denden, Mihoko Suzuki, Kaneko Kubota, Hiroyuki Kishi, Reiko Mori, Kouichi Ohori, Tomoaki Tatsumi, Seina Kasugai Screened at: SoHo House, NYC, 1/28/13 Opens: February 15, 2013 Sometimes a gentleman caller will hire a girl from an escort service just to talk, believe it or not, particularly if the caller is in his eighties as is one Takashi—whose role is performed by Tadashi Okuno–heretofore known mostly for his parts in TV movies. But don’t expect the story to be at all commercial like “Klute” or “Pretty Woman” since, after all, the writer-director [ Read More ]
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- 1/29/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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