Hojo (played by Hakuryu), a strategist known as a cunning yakuza, serves as the assistant head of the Mikawa Group, an organization based in Kansai. The Mikawa Group is currently moving to invade the Kanto region with the backing of the Owada Group, which controls Yokohama. However, the head of the Owada Group is shot and killed by the Ryujinkai, a rival group that has been at odds with the Owada Group. Hojo, using his subordinate Iwabuchi (played by Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki), begins his strategy to take down the Ryujinkai...
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
An Indonesian film that brings strong representation of Asian descent in this heart-warming tale of a woman and her dog.
This film is based off of The Diary of a Young Girl, which was written during the Holocaust period.
Love, Simon (2018) based on the book “Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda” (by Becky Albertalli) is a teen LGBTQ+ rom-com with themes of longing to find others with similar struggles, and ultimately is a story of acceptance of identity from those around you, and most importantly, from yourself.
Clocking in at about four hours, Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 is the length of a double feature. Despite the length and the hype, the finale still falls short of expectations thanks to poor pacing, poor character choices, and poor diverse storytelling.
I was able to watch the gleefully mesmerizing Disney remake that was Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio. I was enthralled by Zemeckis’ iteration.
