The perfect beach that Instagram didn't ruin Hikari no Michi DMO Fukutsu The Fukutsu Sea Mirror is at its best when clouds add to the texture When the tide is out and the weather conditions are just right, the shores of Fukutsu transform into a 3km, crystal-clear mirror. Visitors started flocking here, taking to Instagram to post their shots of …
Brendan Fraser, this year’s Oscar winner, is set to star in the comedy drama Rental Family from Searchlight Pictures. Rental Family is about a down-and-out actor living in Tokyo who is hired as a token American guy for a Japanese rental family company providing professional stand-in services. Eddie Vaisman and Julia Lebedev of Sight Unseen are producing Rental Family along …
Director Hikari’s Japanese gem 37 Seconds about a cerebral palsy-stricken wheel-chaired strong-willed animation artiste’s journey from dependency to freedom, is so filled with humanism and compassion that it could easily have become a flouncy syrupy celebration of schmaltz. Towards the end when Magdalena meets Miguel a gentle undulating mood takes over as mother and someone else’s son bond like a …
It is a rather curious fortuity how I happened to watch two films that premiered in India last week, centered on mothers and ideas of motherhood — one being Renuka Shahane’s Tribhanga starring Kajol, Tanvi Azmi and Mithila Palkar on Netflix, and the second being Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s True Mothers at the 26th Kolkata International Film Festival. True Mothers …
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