“It's groundhog week! Akemi and her office colleagues go through the same work week over and over again. The time loop might be caused by their boss's procrastination and his unfinished manga.”
Ryo Takebayashi's “Mondays: See You “This” Week!” wastes no time diving into its absurd ‘groundhog day' scenario of a group of office workers caught in an infinite loop, placing two staffers as peculiar eccentrics working to convince their co-worker, Akemi, of the perplexing scenario. As each member of the office is brought into the fold of being aware of this repetition, the humor only escalates as they turn their eyes on their boss whose hidden desires may be the catalyst for the cyclical nightmare the workers find themselves trapped in.
Mondays: See You “This” Week is screening at Nippon Connection
This no-nonsense, quick-fire approach to comedy works swimmingly in “Mondays: See You “This” Week!”, ensuring the quirky...
Ryo Takebayashi's “Mondays: See You “This” Week!” wastes no time diving into its absurd ‘groundhog day' scenario of a group of office workers caught in an infinite loop, placing two staffers as peculiar eccentrics working to convince their co-worker, Akemi, of the perplexing scenario. As each member of the office is brought into the fold of being aware of this repetition, the humor only escalates as they turn their eyes on their boss whose hidden desires may be the catalyst for the cyclical nightmare the workers find themselves trapped in.
Mondays: See You “This” Week is screening at Nippon Connection
This no-nonsense, quick-fire approach to comedy works swimmingly in “Mondays: See You “This” Week!”, ensuring the quirky...
- 6/11/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Japan Society announces Anshul Chauhan ’s Kontora as the winner of the inaugural Obayashi Prize at Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film, currently running as an online festival through July 30. The film is selected from titles within Next Generation —the festival’s brand-new competitive section dedicated to independently produced narrative feature films from emerging filmmakers in Japan—by a diverse jury of film
industry professionals comprised of film director Momoko Ando ( 0.5mm ), programmer Julian Ross of Locarno Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Free Stone Productions CEO and producer ( Ten Years Japan ) Miyuki Takamatsu.
In their collective statement, they note:
“In this year when the film industry faces irreversible change, the Next Generation competition challenged us as a jury to look to the future. The film we chose explores the weight of the past and our responsibility to engage with it not alone, but together. For a film rooted in the past,...
industry professionals comprised of film director Momoko Ando ( 0.5mm ), programmer Julian Ross of Locarno Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Free Stone Productions CEO and producer ( Ten Years Japan ) Miyuki Takamatsu.
In their collective statement, they note:
“In this year when the film industry faces irreversible change, the Next Generation competition challenged us as a jury to look to the future. The film we chose explores the weight of the past and our responsibility to engage with it not alone, but together. For a film rooted in the past,...
- 8/2/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Reviewing a film directed by someone you already like is one of the most difficult experiences a critic can have, almost as difficult as it is for a director to follow a great debut. In the case of “Kontora”, Anshul Chauhan’s second feature film after the great “Bad Poetry Tokyo“, both the aforementioned apply.
Kontora is screening at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
High school girl Sora is living with her father and grandfather in a small rural town. Her relationship with her father is almost non-existent, since the two of them barely communicate, and the girl seems to have a better connection with her grandfather. When he dies, however, things take a rather unexpected turn, since Sora discovers the diary he kept during WWII, which, apart from a number of sketches and his thoughts during the particular, extreme circumstances, includes hints about a treasure buried somewhere in the nearby forest.
Kontora is screening at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
High school girl Sora is living with her father and grandfather in a small rural town. Her relationship with her father is almost non-existent, since the two of them barely communicate, and the girl seems to have a better connection with her grandfather. When he dies, however, things take a rather unexpected turn, since Sora discovers the diary he kept during WWII, which, apart from a number of sketches and his thoughts during the particular, extreme circumstances, includes hints about a treasure buried somewhere in the nearby forest.
- 11/27/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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