A layered, non-linear Taiwanese LGBT drama centering on the outsiders of society—their lives, struggles, and tragedies.
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Thanatos, Drunk (2015)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Incitement (2019)
The mid-‘90s assassination of then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is radically told from the point-of-view of the assassin in this urgent and incisive sociopolitical-thriller about the dangers of holding extremist worldviews.
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Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The (2013)
A familiar if exposition-heavy anime that prides itself in being remarkably composed with its sheer beauty and breathtaking visuals.
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Dreamed Path, The (2016)
Enigmatic and quiet by design, this formally-rigourous work brings Schanelec’s brand of austere cinema to its logical extreme as she once again explores human relationships in existential flux.
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Only Yesterday (1991)
My favourite Isao Takahata—a poignant and nostalgia-tinged tribute to memory, time, childhood and love in what could be Studio Ghibli’s finest work.
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man (1965)
This easy-going if poor entry doesn’t quite contribute much to Zatoichi’s characterisation, nor does it have an involving premise.
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Dark, Dark Man, A (2019)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan meets Diao Yi’nan in the lawless Kazakh steppes in this brilliant slow-burning investigative procedural about systemic corruption and chronic violence, directed by one of Central Asian cinema’s most distinctive voices.
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
One of the greatest of all Japanese anime from the master Isao Takahata, this holds enough emotional power to reduce any grownup into a sobering mess.
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Mindanao (2019)
Mendoza’s latest doesn’t quite come together as he employs sketchy animation against his docu-realist style in an overdrawn child cancer drama with an allegorical intent that never hits any mark.
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I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
It is as if Charlie Kaufman had reimagined ‘The Shining’ in a whole new dimension—this indescribably cerebral and atmospheric film, an adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name, enthrals as much as it frustrates.
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