Philip Brasor

Review: Marty Supreme It feels more like providence than serendipity to note that the recently sundered Safdie Brothers filmmaking team has now produced two movies about real-life sports figures whose forceful personali…

"Marty Supreme" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/3NAxI0P
@martysupreme_jp
#マーティ・シュプリーム世界をつかめ

A brief history of stateless children in Okinawa. bit.ly/4blOGb8 #沖縄の無国籍児

The other Masako A family in the city

Masako's Story 13: Going to Tokyo alone in elementary school to see the relatives and get a little taste of what's it’s like to belong to a family. bit.ly/3MZufc5 #昭和

Media watch: Electric buses bought for Expo almost dead on arrival By pretty much every metric last year’s Osaka Expo was a success, an outcome that surprised a lot of people given the problems leading up to it. However, there was one problem that remains un…

Why are 134 electric vehicles bought for the Osaka Expo last year now sitting in a "bus graveyard"? bit.ly/4ujqChT #EVバス #大阪万博

Media watch: Electric buses bought for Expo almost dead on arrival By pretty much every metric last year’s Osaka Expo was a success, an outcome that surprised a lot of people given the problems leading up to it. However, there was one problem that remains un…

philipbrasor.com/2026/03/08/m... The wheels on the grift go round and round.

Review: Holding Liat Since the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, in Israel, most of the documentaries made about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians have been told from the Palestinian perspective. Holding Liat, dir…

"Holding Liat" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4cwZXYz
@hgliat
#ホールディング・リアット

Review: No Other Choice Celebrated for his meticulous, almost stately mise en scene, and noted for his often extreme use of violence, Park Chan-wook is rarely lauded for his visual jokes. In his last movie, the mystery th…

"No Other Choice" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4cvPoF6
@NoOtherChoiceJP
#しあわせな選択

Review: Blue Moon, Wicked: For Good, Elis & Tom Richard Linklater’s chamber piece about the early 20th century American lyricist Lorenz Hart, Blue Moon, analyzes the nexus of art and entertainment, with the latter prevailing because the mo…

"Blue Moon," "Wicked: For Good," and "Elis & Tom" open tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4cnViIh #ブルームーン
@wickedmovieJP
#ウィキッド永遠の約束 #エリスとトムボサノヴァ名盤誕生秘話

Review: Late Shift Leonie Benesch is one of those seasoned European actors who wins awards and garners serious critical acclaim without breaking out in a big way. Her lead performance in the education drama The Teach…

"Late Shift" opens Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/3PdXwAd
@nursecall_movie
#ナースコール

Media watch: Election workers try to make dodgy numbers add up, get busted After the Lower House election took place in February, some people on social media called into question the surprisingly good results of the newish Team Mirai party, which managed to secure 11 seat…

Police cite Tokyo election officials for playing with numbers. bit.ly/4rMreuA #無効票水増し #大田区選管

Get a Job That's entertainment!

Masako's Story 12: Working for a living...at 11, in Showa Japan. bit.ly/3OCFhnY #昭和

Get a Job That's entertainment!

Masako's Story 12: Working for a living...at 11, in Showa Japan. bit.ly/3OCFhnY #昭和

Review: Wuthering Heights and Shiva Baby As with much of the classic literature I read in high school and college, Charlotte Bronte’s Wuthering Heights remains in my memory as more of a vibe than a story, and I imagine it’s th…

"Wuthering Heights" and "Shiva Baby" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/3MX8md8 #嵐が丘
@shivababy_jp
#シヴァ・ベイビー

Review: The Disappearance of Josef Mengele and Malum Though based on a French novel, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, directed by the prolific expatriate Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, offers enough convincing detail to make it feel not on…

"The Disappearance of Josef Mengele" and "Malum" open tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/47akjmC
@shinotenshifilm
#死の天使ヨーゼフ・メンゲレ
@extreme_film
#マラム

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Media watch: Extended Henoko timeline means US military gets what it really wants Asahi Shimbun Last Wednesday, the Fukuoka High Court ordered Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki to “approve” the modified plan for landfill work ordered by the central government for relocat…

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A Man's World Crying over spilt rice

Masako's Story 10: Two damaged families trying and failing to make one "normal" family in 1960s Japan. bit.ly/4rnLwKW #昭和

A Man's World Crying over spilt rice

Masako's Story 10: Two damaged families trying and failing to make one "normal" family in 1960s Japan. bit.ly/4rnLwKW #昭和

Review: In Our Day The fun of a new Hong Sangsoo movie is in discovering what the prolific, wily director is doing this time in terms of structure. This 2023 feature has two narratives that alternate back-and-forth w…

"In Our Day" opens today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4an3CoQ
@hongsangsoo_JP
#私たちの一日

Review: Bugonia and Crime 101 Though I don’t remember many of the particulars of Jang Joon-hwan’s iconic environmental thriller Save the Green Planet!, which I only saw once when it first came out in 2003, its creep…

"Bugonia" and "Crime 101" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4qxAUI0
@bugonia_jp
#ブゴニア #クライム101

Review: My Everything Director Anne-Sophie Bailly piles one melodramatic layer on top of another in her tale about Mona (Laure Calamy), a late middle aged single mother trying to live her life as naturally as she can wh…

"My Everything" opens tomorrow in Tokyo. bit.ly/4aqZzrB #私のすべて

Background. bit.ly/4raVPSx

Review: Spermageddon This Norwegian animated feature splits the difference between cautionary health class lesson and gross-out comedy, and in the process loses some of its intended effect on both tracks, but it’…

"Spermageddon" opens Friday in Tokyo. bit.ly/4rad6ej
@spermageddon_jp
#スペルマゲドン精なる大冒険

Media watch: Government keeps its distance from Japanese language learning for foreigners Foreigners attending night junior high school (Withnews) In Japan, compulsory education stops after junior high school, and though the vast majority of Japanese people now graduate from high school…

Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育

Media watch: Government keeps its distance from Japanese language learning for foreigners Foreigners attending night junior high school (Withnews) In Japan, compulsory education stops after junior high school, and though the vast majority of Japanese people now graduate from high school…

Soft xenophobia: Japanese govt. not proactive about foreigners learning Japanese language bit.ly/4alTcGb #夜間中学校 #外国人のための日本語教育

Review: Together and Frewaka For much of the moviegoing public, suspension of disbelief remains a requirement, and not just with regards to fantasy, horror, or sci-fi genre films; but fantasy, horror, and sci-fi pretty much co…

"Together" and "Frewaka" open today in Tokyo. bit.ly/4tmiD2X
@together0206
#トゥギャザー #FRÉWAKAフレワカ