Here's a thing I like but don't talk much about - Japanese films! I have a taste that makes me slightly more refined than an entry-level weeb, but not super refined. Films I've watched in the last two years and recommend (plus one I watched further back but is quite good): (1/n)
- Ran (Kurosawa, 1985). Grand cinematic vision of war destroying all that is good. Very Buddhist.
- Pom Poko (Takahata, 1994). Ghibli's most explicitly environmentalist film. Miyazaki tends to handle environmentalism in a Marxist way where he clearly appreciates the value of industrial progress, Takahata handles it in a way typical of himself.
- Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop (Ishiguro, 2021). It's very cute.
- Our Little Sister (Koreeda, 2015). Slice-of-life, but a tender drama. (2/n)
Oh also Words Bubble Up is nice and colourful (Mishima film also has nice use of colour)
