Sometimes it takes a random cessation of momentum to make us ponder on the directions we are headed, not just in the literal sense of “where are we going?” but also in our own grand narratives, the course in which our lives will take us. Such a blockade may not force us to answer this question there and then, but it certainly implants the thought processes in our heads. It is the not-so-subtle existential question which director Momoko Fukuda poses to her characters and her audience in her second short film ‘Yukkuri’ (Aka ‘Slowly’), a film with its heart in the past, its head in the future but its vessel stuck uncomfortably in the present.
“Slowly” is screening at the 2019 Osaka Asian Film Festival.
After a high school reunion, Kotaro (Jyonmyon Pe) and Yoko (Ai Bitō) are travelling down the back roads of the town they grew up in when...
“Slowly” is screening at the 2019 Osaka Asian Film Festival.
After a high school reunion, Kotaro (Jyonmyon Pe) and Yoko (Ai Bitō) are travelling down the back roads of the town they grew up in when...
- 3/11/2019
- by Jamie Cansdale
- AsianMoviePulse
Year: 2010
Director: Eiji Uchida
Writers: Eiji Uchida, Naoki Yamamoto
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Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 4 out of 10
We all love a good tale of the coming apocalypse; it provides a nice backdrop for stuff to go wrong and for individuals to take advantage of their situations. When done well, even the low budget affairs can come out winners. I thought that might be the case at the start of Eiji Uchida's The Last Days of the World unfortunately, this film doesn't deliver.
Kanou is a jaded teenager at a crossroads. He dislikes school but is working hard in an attempt to enter a good university so he doesn't end up like his father, a grad from a third rate school who recently lost his job and can't find another. On yet another boring school day, Kanou wakes during a lecture to see a tinny man who explains that...
Director: Eiji Uchida
Writers: Eiji Uchida, Naoki Yamamoto
IMDb: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 4 out of 10
We all love a good tale of the coming apocalypse; it provides a nice backdrop for stuff to go wrong and for individuals to take advantage of their situations. When done well, even the low budget affairs can come out winners. I thought that might be the case at the start of Eiji Uchida's The Last Days of the World unfortunately, this film doesn't deliver.
Kanou is a jaded teenager at a crossroads. He dislikes school but is working hard in an attempt to enter a good university so he doesn't end up like his father, a grad from a third rate school who recently lost his job and can't find another. On yet another boring school day, Kanou wakes during a lecture to see a tinny man who explains that...
- 7/14/2011
- QuietEarth.us
A fantastic ramble inside a world where there is no harm, but everything must count. Director Eiji Uchida.s spirited .The Last Days of the World screened at this year.s New York Asian Film Festival. To say the least it was a valuable addition to the usual humdrum cop/corruption flicks. It is a thoughtful, atmospheric film and Jyonmyon Pe.s performance is one of the best around. Jyonmyon plays Kanou, a troubled schoolboy of approximately 16-18 years of age. Classmates bully him perpetually. He seems destined to a life as a miserable loner. His father is a cuckolded white-collar worker who has just been laid off from his job. As the graduate of a third class university, he has little chance...
- 6/28/2011
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
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