Raigyo - Takahisa Zeze 1997
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Threads: Our Tapestry of Love
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Threads: Our Tapestry of Love (2020, Japan)
Director: Takahisa Zeze
Writer: Tamio Hayashi (based on a song by Miyuki Nakajima)
Mini-review:
This was good, but I can't say I loved it, cause I expected something very different. While it's beautifully shot and brilliantly acted, the script didn't fully work for me. For starters, the leads share like 30 minutes of screentime at most. Their individual storylines are more than interesting enough, but they're barely interconnected. There were so many times where I felt like I was watching two different movies that had been sort of mashed up together. The film is clearly going for the star-crossed lovers route, but for it to work you need to give the characters way more interactions than they have here, and I don't necessarily mean being on screen at the same time. Anyway Threads: Our Tapestry of Love is a solidly made movie, but these tropes have way better iterations elsewhere.
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Director Takahisa Zeze Historical Freedom Low-Budget Filmmaking – The Hollywood Reporter
Director Takahisa Zeze Historical Freedom Low-Budget Filmmaking – The Hollywood Reporter
Opening this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival is Takahisa Zeze’s war drama Fragments of the Last Will, a tragic but hopeful story from a little-known chapter of Russo-Japanese history.
Based on the true story of Hatao Yamamoto (Kazunari Ninomiya), one of more than half a million Japanese soldiers taken to the Soviet Union after World War Two, the film tells of his battle to keep hope…
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Angel in September (1994), dir. Takahisa Zeze
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since i’m filipina, i’m going to list filipino films but also films from other countries
barcelona: a love untold (2016) by dir. olivia lamasan
while earning a degree in Spain, a young architecture student dealing with grief meets a fellow expatriate trying to escape her past.
Filipino
(this one was excellent ✨)
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the last 10 years (2022) dir. michichito fujii
twenty-year-old Matsuri Takabayashi learns that she only has 10 years to live due to an incurable disease. She decides to not dwell on her life and not to fall in love, but she meets Kazuto Manabe at a school reunion.
Japanese
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threads – our tapestry of love (2020) dir. takahisa zeze
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31-years-old.
Japanese
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kita kita (2017) dir. sigrid andrea p. bernardo
In one horrible moment, her entire world clouds over. It takes an unlikely stranger to help her see its beauty again.
Filipino
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hello, love, goodbye (2019) dir. cathy garcia sampana
a bartender and a domestic helper of Filipino origin living in Hong Kong find themselves falling in love, but they each have different plans for their future.
Filipino
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20th century girl (2022) dir. bang woo-ri
in 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend, then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.
Korean
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inhuman kiss (2019) dir. sittisiri mongkolsiri
an innocent young woman is the unwitting host to a krasue, a demon who causes havoc in her village as it searches for vengeance at night.
Thai
hope u guys enjoy! xoxo
thank you so much anon! whoever asked for recs here you are! 🩷
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