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nothing, except everything. 2023

★ Watched 16 Apr 2024 2

This has so little to say about life and “the human condition” that you’ll realize why some people who go to film school just end up directing commercials.
Has the same music choices as a clothing store in the mall.
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Midori 1992

★★★★★ Rewatched 16 Feb 2025 2

There is so much empathy for what Midori goes through as she tries to find any relief in her waking nightmare. unflinching with its depictions of cruelty and suffering specifically because the work is about the hopelessness and despair of her situation. Her innocence and childhood dreams thrown to the grown and stomped out by a reality of exploitation and abuse.
Hiroshi Harada clearly saw something in Maruo’s original work to justify the massive undertaking of this passion project, so…

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