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Third Window Films

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Blu-Ray Review: Adrift in Tokyo

  • December 12, 2022
  • Rob Aldam
If you’re based outside of Japan, you might naturally assume that the culture is dominated by manga, anime, overwrought historical dramas and young adult fiction. While this is true, to…
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Blue-Ray Review: Summer Time Machine Blues

  • June 30, 2022
  • Rob Aldam
What would you do if you invented a time machine? The answer is likely to be different depending on the individual. Some, selfishly, would go back and use their knowledge…
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Onoda and his men in the jungle
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Film Review – Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

  • April 11, 2022
  • Rob Aldam
Wars are never straightforward. The bigger the conflict, both in terms of length and size of the arena of battle, the messier things like logistics and communications become. The Pacific…
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9 prisoners sat down in a house
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Blu-ray Review: 9 Souls

  • October 15, 2021
  • Rob Aldam
There’s nothing that captures the imagination of the viewing public quite like a prison break drama.  Some of the most popular films of all time have been based around this…
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Blu-ray Review: Gemini

  • October 29, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Japan is home to the weird, the wonderful and the worrying. It’s probably no surprise that such a traditionally rigid and regimented society has proved to be a catalyst for…
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Fantasia Film Review: Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats

  • August 19, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
From the outside, it can seem like cinema and television in Japan are dominated by samurais, Manga adaptations, limp romantic comedies and period dramas. However, there’s a weird and often…
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Blu-Ray Review: Hanagatami

  • July 3, 2020
  • Rob Aldam
Film-making is a strange vocation. Unlike music, where your first album is often the culmination of a lifetimes’ work, directors can make film after film before bringing their pet project…
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Film Review: One Cut of the Dead

  • January 2, 2019
  • Rob Aldam
It’s all too easy to be overly critical and forget how incredibly difficult it is to make a feature film. How much time and effort is invested by a whole…
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Blu-ray Review: Dangan Runner

  • November 8, 2018
  • Rob Aldam
Today, streaming has become the norm and is beginning to challenge the mainstream cinematic experience. Whilst this creates a problem by preventing audiences seeing a film as the director intended,…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Whispering Star/The Sion Sono

  • April 12, 2018
  • Rob Aldam
Sion Sono must be one of the hardest working directors currently ploughing his own unique and occasionally unwanted furrow in Japanese cinema. His films are usually, without fail, loud, brash,…
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