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  • Strawberry Night (2013)

    Strawberry Night (2013)

    After 2 years of waiting, I finally watched Strawberry Night: Invisible Rain! And it totally got me, I was absorbed. I think the series really gets its footing in longform. The episodes in the original drama were a little hamfisted at times and unevenly paced (some episodes being drawn out to three episodes and others being limited to one), but I think the film format fully allowed the writers to explore all parts of the crime while developing character and exploring backstories. Strawberry Night still employs a lot of the conventions that the drama follows, but I was so hooked by the characterization (as usual) that I didn’t really mind that it felt like I was watching an extended Strawberry Night episode/SP.

    We get to hang out with a bunch of characters we all know and love with varying amounts of screen time (Imaizumi! we hardly knew ya), but the best one we were introduced to was Makita Isao (Osawa Takao), the homme fatale.

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  • A Boy and His Samurai

    A Boy and His Samurai

    The way of the supermarket:

    “One takes a basket in which he carries the items to be purchased. Items on sale are best bought in bulk. Consider the reasons they were marked down. Note the expiration date on fresh produce, as items on sale are usually close to expiring.”

    Please watch Chonmage Purin. It will make your life… or at least your day. There’s delicious, delicious cakes. Nishikido Ryo being domestic and delightfully awkward as an out-of-place samurai. Nishikido Ryo being husband and dad material. (Oh, and the son is the CUTEST. ) And baking related movies are the best!

  • Della Togashi laughs in the face of bullets!

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    Koki Mitani (writer and director of The Magic Hour) said that his goal was to make the audience laugh “three times a minute”. Honestly? I was laughing more than that!

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