Skip to content

Mikkel Frederiksen

Main
Reviews

Tag: japan

Broker (2022)

January 23, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The ties that bind

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2022, broker, cannes, dong-won gang, family, family relationships, hirokazu koreeda, human trafficking, japan, ji-eun lee, korea, review, song kang-ho

Cure (1997)

August 13, 2022 Mikkel Frederiksen1 Comment

Kurosawa, master of the morass

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1997, asian, cure, horror, japan, Kôji Yakusho, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, murder, mystery, Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Drive My Car (2021)

March 4, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Life in second gear

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, 2022 oscar, adultery, art, car, grief, Haruki Murakami, Hidetoshi Nishijima, japan, loss, Reika Kirishima, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, theatre

Father (1988)

January 21, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The father as an familial fuckboy

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1988, drama, Eiji Bandô, family, father, japan, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kin Sugai, Kiwako Taichi, Makoto Nonomura

House (1977)

July 29, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A fever dream of a late-night movie

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1977, comedy, douglas sirk, ghost story, haunted house, horror, japan, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi, surreal

The Sun’s Burial (1960)

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A country cannibalizes itself

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, crime, inequality, japan, nagisa oshima, post-war, society

Tales of Ginza (1955)

February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A ride through that part of town.

Posted in ReviewsTagged japan, kawashima, tokyo

Follow Following
- Mikkel Frederiksen
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.