2LDK first published by EyeforFilm Their publicists and agents might want you to believe that aspiring starlets are just glamorous gigglers with pretty faces, perfect bodies and enviable lifestyles, but Japanese cinema has recently sliced through all the smiling beauty to expose the tormented souls within. In Takashi Miike‘s astonishing Audition (1999), a would-be actress’s veneer of…
Tag: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Initiation Love (2015)
Initiation Love first published as a programme note for the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2018 “A rite of passage, a ritual to become an adult – that’s what first relationships are. You think you’ve found the one, and that you’re positive, but realise that nothing is absolute. And that realisation makes you grow up. You…