First published by Little White Lies “Is it true that you regularly call a sex line since your father died?”, young Yen Lee (Yufei Li) asks her apartment block neighbour Aloys Adorn (Georg Friedrich). Yen is onto something. If sex lines are designed to fuel erotic fantasy, rooted in the auditory domain, for those who…
Summary: Kon Ichikawa’s docudrama uses a real-life solo yacht journey from Japan to America to stage the shifting interplay between individual and society, East and West, in post-war Japan. Review: In 1962, nearly a decade after the Allied Occupation of Japan had come to an end, a young misfit named Horie Kenichi set sail in a…