There is a massive problem with filming a Dancesport film: Unless your cast are actual Dancesport athletes (and they are typically poor actors), then it’s going to be hard to make the dancing look good. 10 Dance, a Netflix-published film by the director of the Rurouni Kenshin films, is quite possibly the best Dancesport film we’ve seen for the effort…
I don’t often write about films these days, but I recently saw something at the Japan Film Festival in Australia that was powerful, profound, and haunting enough that it has since occupied all my thinking. Kokuho, directed by one of Japan’s most noteworthy art film directors, Lee Sang-il, is, as…
The Rurouni Kenshin film series consists of five films in total (with…
Netflix has done something that no other company had really managed to…
There is a massive problem with filming a Dancesport film: Unless your cast are actual Dancesport athletes (and they are typically poor actors), then it’s going to be hard to make the dancing look good. 10 Dance, a Netflix-published film by the director of the Rurouni Kenshin films, is quite…
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I don’t often write about films these days, but I recently saw something at the Japan Film Festival in Australia that was powerful, profound, and haunting enough that it has since occupied all my thinking. Kokuho, directed by one of Japan’s most noteworthy art film directors, Lee Sang-il, is, as…
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The Rurouni Kenshin film series consists of five films in total (with the fifth, and final, released worldwide and exclusive to Netflix, in 2021). In the time since the first film, 2012’s simply-titled Rurouni Kenshin, the series has become one of the largest film properties of all time, with three…
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Netflix has done something that no other company had really managed to do before; tap into the Japanese film and television market and get a lot of it localised and easily accessible in western markets. While Japanese films remain as rare as hen’s teeth on any of the other subscription…
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The High&Low film series (available via Netflix in the west) is many things. First and foremost, the film series offers some of the most wildly entertaining action to come out of Japan’s cinema industry in recent years. The action in these films is big. So big that you’d be forgiven…
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