March 1945. Amamiya, an employee at the Radio Research Institute, becomes convinced of Japan's impending defeat due to inside information. He resigns immediately but finds himself pursued by the Special Higher Police—acting on behalf of the Home Ministry—who fear he might leak state secrets. One night, after spending time with a courtesan named O-Sayo, he is approached by a man named Noro—who suffers from impotence—with a strange request: to sleep with a woman known as "Madame Pearl" in his stead...
Everything Everywhere All at Once is exactly as the title describes, yet unexpectedly so. It's like the Matrix, but with OCD and hallucinogens, plus a heart’s dose of mother-daughter intergenerational intercultural growing pains. Review and cast.
Stevan Lee Mraovitch’s film is a beautiful tribute to family, found family, and the lengths people will go to support their loved ones.
‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ seeks to ask one question, “What do you do when your parents are the source of your pain?”
Anna May Wong was a talented actress and a fashion icon and still had to fight for everything she had due to hatred and racism.
Produced by Vanguard Animation and released on Netflix, this animated fairytale movie has a lot of ironies as the story is told by the prince himself.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
