Staff Picks: Inauguration Edition 2021
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!

Roppongi, a bustling international city swirling with desires and chaos, is a place where people wander in search of various pleasures. But one man has turned this city into a hellhole! A man (Kawaya Setchin) casually appears at a popular high-class club filled with beautiful hostesses, intending to take them hostage and rob them of his money. However, he can't find the money, and losing his reason, the man shifts his focus from money to the hostesses and commits a series of heinous acts. This shocking and controversial film unfolds with a series of humiliating acts of confinement and rape, including forced vibrator torture, mayonnaise and ice torture on the female body, and forced walking with foreign objects inserted.
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!
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A thief and street dog named Roger has to work with other pets to take down the evil Mayor Frank Stone when he plans to destroy Robo City.
Years before Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, was winning Academy Awards for movies like Gravity (2013) and Roma(2018), he directed a small, intimate film about two best friends who decide to embark on an improvised road trip to spend time with an older, attractive woman who miraculously agrees to go with them. Y tu Mamá También is a deep journey into the raw sexuality and friendship of the young protagonists, as well as a subtle social and political commentary on Mexico at the time.
Disney remakes have often gotten a bad rap for their consistent reliance on the originals and overuse of CGI. However, Mulan is a remake that is able to transcend beyond Disney's other remakes with a confident and bold earnestness.
The director's latest is a dreamlike exploration of a consciousness torn between two homelands, and the implications of history and memory suspended in limbo.