If you want to read my review of A Man, read this post. In ある男, Rie Taniguchi asks her lawyer, Akira Kido, to investigate the real life of her late husband, Daisuke Taniguchi, with whom she was married for three years.
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Faceless
If you want to read my review of Faceless, read this post. In 正体, Keiichi was on death row for triple homicide, but he managed to escape detention and was going to do everything to prove his innocence.
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If you want to read my review of The Lies She Loved, read this post. In 嘘を愛する女, Yukari thought she was living with Kippei, a research physician, but after he was hospitalized with a subarachnoid hemorrhage, she discovered that everything was a lie.
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If you want to read my review of The 8-Year Engagement, read this post. In 八年越しの花嫁, Hisashi and Mai are scheduled to get married. But, before the long-awaited date, she has a sudden illness and falls into a coma. Years later, she wakes up with no memory of him.
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If you want to read my review of First Love, read this post. In ファーストラブ, Yuki Makabe is a psychologist who tries to understand why a newsreader, Kanna Hijiriyama, murdered her father in such a brutal way and refuses to reveal the reason.
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I took advantage of the sunny weather and went to a festival that took place on the island of Odaiba. For those who don’t know, that’s where the iconic Fuji TV building is located. I took the opportunity to make this record.
It’s one of my favorite stations. It’s not the one that produces most of the movies I like. But, it has its great value.
Two Japanese films on Fuji TV that are among my best are Kasane, with Tao Tsuchiya and Kyôko Yoshine, and Caracter, with Masaki Suda and Mitsuki Takahata.
I usually watch a Japanese movie to relieve stress. But today was the day to ease tension at the batting center in Kabukicho. I haven’t done that for a long time.
Of course, as always, it reminded me of one of the Japanese movies I watched. This one in particular features one of my favorite actresses, Kyoko Fukada. She acts in a love triangle with Goro Kishitani and Tae Kimura.
The film that had scenes filmed in a batting center is called In The City of Dawn and is an intense plot about betrayal in marriage.
Last Winter, We Parted
If you want to read my review of Last Winter, We Parted, read this post. In 去年の冬、君と別れ, Kyosuke Yakumo is a freelance writer and risks his life to prove that a renowned photographer let one of his models die in a fire just to take morbid photos.
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Wherever I go in Japan I’m always getting references to Japanese movies. I think there is no greater reference than the Shibuya crossing.
So many cool productions were made here. For example, Alice in Borderland with Tao Tsuchiya and Kento Yamazaki, one of the great recent hits on Netflix.
And it was also here that Han “didn’t die” for the third time in that car chase in Fast and Furious – Tokyo Drift.
Asako I and II
If you want to read my review of Asako I & II, read this post. In 寝ても覚めても, Asako fell in love with Baku, a man so free that one day he simply disappeared. Years later, she meets Ryohei, a man with a completely different personality than Baku. But, with the identical face.
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