Michihito Fujii has been working like a factory lately for Netflix, with the majority of his latest works featuring in the streaming service, including “Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045”, and the more recent “Hard Days” and “Village” among others. His latest work, however, signals a change to a “tamer” narrative, as “The Parades” is a drama about the afterlife, inspired by the Fukushima disaster.
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Minako, a TV reporter and single mother, finds herself roaming the area she lived in after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, in search of her lost boy. Soon she realizes though, that she is dead and that the living cannot see or hear her. While getting totally lost about her new reality, she is discovered by Akira, a writer who is in the same situation, who takes her under his wing and introduces her to his...
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Minako, a TV reporter and single mother, finds herself roaming the area she lived in after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, in search of her lost boy. Soon she realizes though, that she is dead and that the living cannot see or hear her. While getting totally lost about her new reality, she is discovered by Akira, a writer who is in the same situation, who takes her under his wing and introduces her to his...
- 3/20/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The 66th edition of the Blue Ribbon Awards, presented by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists, has announced its winners on January 24, 2024. The nominees are selected from movies released in 2023. The trifecta wins for “Godzilla Minus One” come as no surprise, sweeping the Best Film, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress categories. Yuya Ishii picks up the Best Director award for both his movies “The Moon” and “Masked Hearts”.
Best Film
Masked Hearts
Ichiko
Egoist
Monster
The Dry Spell
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
(Ab)normal Desire
The Moon
One Last Bloom
Perfect Days
Bad Lands
September 1923
Do Unto Others
As Long as We Both Shall Live
Best Director
Yuya Ishii – The Moon, Masked Hearts
Hirokazu Koreeda – Monster
Daishi Matsunaga – Egoist
Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One
Yoji Yamada – Mom, Is That You?!
Best Actor
Goro Inagaki – (Ab)normal Desire
Ryunosuke Kamiki – Godzilla Minus One, We're Broke, My Lord!
Best Film
Masked Hearts
Ichiko
Egoist
Monster
The Dry Spell
Godzilla Minus One
Mom, Is That You?!
(Ab)normal Desire
The Moon
One Last Bloom
Perfect Days
Bad Lands
September 1923
Do Unto Others
As Long as We Both Shall Live
Best Director
Yuya Ishii – The Moon, Masked Hearts
Hirokazu Koreeda – Monster
Daishi Matsunaga – Egoist
Takashi Yamazaki – Godzilla Minus One
Yoji Yamada – Mom, Is That You?!
Best Actor
Goro Inagaki – (Ab)normal Desire
Ryunosuke Kamiki – Godzilla Minus One, We're Broke, My Lord!
- 1/25/2024
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Back in 2013, when the surge of Korean crime/action thrillers, which eventually brought the local industry to the top of the world, was at its peak, Kim Seung-hun managed to come up with “A Hard Day”, a movie that entailed the majority of the elements that made films of the category a success, but also including a very appealing comic aspect, mostly instigated by an impressive performance by Lee Sun-kyun. Ten years later, Michihito Fujii, who has been working like crazy for Netflix recently, coming up with three films just in 2023, presents a Japanese remake of the original, which also doubles as a Christmas movie, in a way.
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On the night of December 29th, Detective Yuji Kudo is driving his car towards the hospital, where his mother is hospitalized with a serious condition. He is a bit drunk, and a...
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On the night of December 29th, Detective Yuji Kudo is driving his car towards the hospital, where his mother is hospitalized with a serious condition. He is a bit drunk, and a...
- 12/16/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Netflix’s Japanese action-thriller film, Hard Days, directed by Fujii Michihito, brings out the consequences of corruption and bribery that pull down the image of an individual. It is because of these habits and certain wrong decisions that Yuji Kudo, a detective, gets into trouble. He messes with Takayuki Yazaki in a quest for monetary benefits. The film stars well-known faces like Jun’ichi Okada, Gou Ayano, and others. The top-notch twists and thrills presented in the movie will pave the path for the film to reach the top of the action thrillers list this year. Will Kudo be able to save his family? Will he be able to lay his hands on the illegal money? Let’s find out!
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What Happens To Detective Kudo?
There are charges of corruption against Detective Kudo, and his association with the Senba Syndicate has been brought up by Internal Affairs. While Kudo is tense about it,...
Spoilers Ahead
What Happens To Detective Kudo?
There are charges of corruption against Detective Kudo, and his association with the Senba Syndicate has been brought up by Internal Affairs. While Kudo is tense about it,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
It’s slick, it’s chaotic, it’s entertaining, and it’s dark, which is why the new Japanese crime thriller Hard Days by Michihito Fujii intrigues from the very first frame. One gets a sense from the get-go that we have entered into a world that is full of sinister plots. There is something about those movies that start with a car being driven at night that somehow sets my mind racing with all these adjectives. Goodfellas comes to mind with that sort of dynamic opening, and well, Hard Days is not as good as the Scorsese film; but it has a language of its own. But the first frame itself promises what kind of movie it’s going to be. If there were doubts, then the movie quells all of them in the next five minutes when drunk Detective Yuji Kudo runs somebody over and tries to cover up the crime.
- 12/1/2023
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
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