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Tokyo Sonata


A 2008 film by Kurosawa Kiyoshi

I’ll never forget the first time I was evaluated in graduate school. I was told that I asked good questions, but I wasn’t as ready or prepared to give good answers. A lot of suburban family dramas are the same way.

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Hausu: Where floating heads will bite you in the butt

Oshare, a young school girl, comes home one day to discover that her widowed father plans remarry. Angry and distraught from the news, Oshare cancels the summer trip she and her father had been planning, opting instead visit her aunt in the country. She invites her friends to come along and the results are, well, quite a sight to behold.

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