OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SUBTITLED DVD/BDs
We know the options in Japan are limited, but if you don't have access to your own country's subbed selections of Japanese films on DVD/BD, here are some directors whose work you can find locally on English-subbed DVD/BD:
REVIEWS OF FILMS ON DVD
REVIEW: MABOROSHI [DVD] - Following the 2016 Cannes Film Festival world premiere of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest feature, After the Storm, and the theatrical release of the film on May 21 in Japan, it is never too late to rediscover the filmmaker’s early masterpieces, nearly all available with English subtitles. Films about family values have… ...
REVIEW: THE BLOSSOMING OF KAMIYA ETSUKO [DVD] - Summer is not just a season of beaches and ice cream, but a time to remind ourselves of the end of the disastrous second world war. Tokyo Filmgoer recommends two works by Kazuo Kuroki, both available with English subtitles on DVD: The Face of Jiro (2004) and The Blossoming of… ...
REVIEW: WILD BERRIES and SWAY [DVD] - Residing in Japan, where sexual inequality is never problematized by film “journalists” (or any kind of journalist), I sometimes undergo hallucinations that America is actually a country of united states, a Capraesque nation in which journalism can wield its power to influence society. Not only in Hollywood, which is fortunate… ...
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