Honeydew first published by VODzilla.co Honeydew opens with a wheat field. “Honour God with your bodies,” a red-haired girl then says indoors, as she reads into a tape recorder from Corinthians 6 about the coming end days, and simultaneously devours a breakfast of meat, eggs and sauce before her. In the background, a loaf of…
Our Meal For Tomorrow (Bokura no Gohan wa Ashita de Matteru) fist published in the programme for The Japan Foundation Touring Programme 2020 “Everything in this world is cumbersome and complicated. It’s not easy to get what you really want.” These words addressed by Ryota Hayama (Yuto Nakajima) to his on-again off-again girlfriend Koharu Uemaru…
Tampopo first published by Little White Lies, as Part 32 of my column Cinema Psychotronicum Today the label ‘ramen western’ evokes such Eastern oaters as Takashi Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), Sadik Ahmed’s The Last Thakur (2008) and Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008), which reclaim and renationalise what the spaghetti western had…