Sharing half of its 24-feature lineup with the freakier, geekier New York Asian Film Festival—including opening-night selection I'm Flash!, Toshiaki Toyoda's indeed flashy crime thriller about a shadowy cult guru—Japan Society's seventh annual survey of contemporary Nipponese cinema is as wonderfully peculiar as ever, its edge perhaps sharper. Sure, there are panty-masked crusaders (Hentai Kamen: Forbidden Super Hero) and overambitious gang-war science fiction some 20 years in the making (Bad Film), but for the most unflinching renegade intensity, brace yourself for Junichi Inoue's last-days-of-wwii psychodrama A Woman and War.
As an acolyte and former assistant director to the late Koji Wakamatsu, Inoue shares his mentor's propensity f...
As an acolyte and former assistant director to the late Koji Wakamatsu, Inoue shares his mentor's propensity f...
- 7/10/2013
- Village Voice
A Woman and War (Senso No Hitori No Onna), the debut film from director Junichi Inoue is a bold political statement. As I noted in my review, it criticises the crimes Japan committed overseas during the second world war by following the lives of three damaged people in a struggling Tokyo during the final stages of the war. Noriko Eguchi, who has worked on many independent feature films and is a regular on Japanese television screens, plays a former prostitute who is unable to experience pleasure while making love. Masatoshi Nagase has been acting for 30 years and has worked with Jim Jarmusch on Mystery Train and with director Yoji Yamada on My Sons and The Hidden Blade. Here he plays a disenchanted writer sure...
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- 5/10/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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