Everyone knows Hayao Miyazaki. And even if you found someone (how?!) who didn’t, they would surely know one of his works โ be it the Oscar-winning Spirited Away (2001), the fairy-tale-like Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), or the iconic My Neighbour Totoro (1988). The Miyazaki we all know is an endlessly talented genius: a man who…
2024 Japanese films
Year In Review: The 2024 Japanese Books, Films, and Dramas We Won’t Forget
A couple more weeks and it’s 2025. Can you believe it? I know that I can’t! But now it’s the perfect time for us to take a look back at 2024 and talk about the very best 2024 Japanese books, dramas and films. Can you recognise all these titles? As much as possible, I tried…
The Parades Review: A Bittersweet Journey Through Love and Loss
What waits for us once we die? What happens to us, and what happens to the people we leave behind? Fujii Michihito (director of the acclaimed The Journalist and, more recently, The Last 10 Years) has come up with a beautiful, heartfelt answer to those questions with Netflix’s The Parades, released this past February. The…
