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alterkrmnAbout a month ago, I found out about the Japanese Film Festival Online and was waiting for the opportunity to watch the films that started streaming online last Tuesday (at 9pm in my time zone).
There are 23 films that will be broadcast for two weeks. Honestly, I don't think I have the time or energy to watch them all, although I'd love to. This week, for example, I had to go to the office on Tuesday and Wednesday, as I have to do every six weeks. And, as always when I have to go, I end up exhausted.
On Tuesday I chose to watch a not very long movie from the line up, The Lone Ume Tree (梅切らぬバカ, 2021), and I enjoyed it a lot, although it made me feel a certain melancholy and sadness at times.
Yesterday, I definitely didn't have the mental energy to watch a movie, but today I decided to finish work half an hour early, because I was actually dealing with the distraction that the exhaustion of going to the office always leaves me with, a kind of mental hangover after two days of long commutes, sensory overstimulation and masking (in the austism sense, the other kind of masking is actually good, please, wear masks) until my brain is jelly. So I decided that today I would try to relax a little.
I just watched The Zen Diary (土を喰らう十二ヵ月, 2022), and I loved it so much. It was precisely what I needed today. It conveys so much peace, and it's very contemplative. I loved the cinematography and the fact that nothing really happens beside the time passing and the protagonist harvesting, foraging and cooking. It has some beautiful words too. like this quote: "Humans are strange animals. Tastes and scents can unexpectedly trigger memories. The food we eat comes from the soul of the earth and over time the earth and the tastes intertwine." I hope I can find this film later to rewatch it at some point.
I hope I can watch as many of the movies as possible.
There are 23 films that will be broadcast for two weeks. Honestly, I don't think I have the time or energy to watch them all, although I'd love to. This week, for example, I had to go to the office on Tuesday and Wednesday, as I have to do every six weeks. And, as always when I have to go, I end up exhausted.
On Tuesday I chose to watch a not very long movie from the line up, The Lone Ume Tree (梅切らぬバカ, 2021), and I enjoyed it a lot, although it made me feel a certain melancholy and sadness at times.
Yesterday, I definitely didn't have the mental energy to watch a movie, but today I decided to finish work half an hour early, because I was actually dealing with the distraction that the exhaustion of going to the office always leaves me with, a kind of mental hangover after two days of long commutes, sensory overstimulation and masking (in the austism sense, the other kind of masking is actually good, please, wear masks) until my brain is jelly. So I decided that today I would try to relax a little.
I just watched The Zen Diary (土を喰らう十二ヵ月, 2022), and I loved it so much. It was precisely what I needed today. It conveys so much peace, and it's very contemplative. I loved the cinematography and the fact that nothing really happens beside the time passing and the protagonist harvesting, foraging and cooking. It has some beautiful words too. like this quote: "Humans are strange animals. Tastes and scents can unexpectedly trigger memories. The food we eat comes from the soul of the earth and over time the earth and the tastes intertwine." I hope I can find this film later to rewatch it at some point.
I hope I can watch as many of the movies as possible.
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Date: 2024-06-10 12:50 pm (UTC)Will watch The Zen Diary soon. The effects in Anime Supremacy messed with my brain, not enough to start pre-seizure brain popcorn but it really wore me out. I wasn't that keen on it as a film either. Someone in our JFF thread on MDL figured out that it's based on a novel, so maybe everything that was missing in the film was in the novel?
This is my JFF dreamwith thread which I update with my thoughts as I see each one (I have no life and I am stubborn so imma gonna complete this). https://elisheva-m.dreamwidth.org/10642.html
Sending blob hugs
Twenty-Four Eyes, KIBA and My Broken Mariko are on dailymotion. BL Metamorphosis and We Made a Beautiful Bouquet are on bilibili. Just to take some of the pressure off.
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Date: 2024-06-11 02:52 am (UTC)Thank you for the tip about the other movies.
Whenever I've had the opportunity to attend a film show, it's an accepted fact that I won't be able to watch every film and I went into watching these with that mindset, so there's really not that much pressure, but it's definitely better to know if they are available to see later. For now I think I'll watch a couple more, but I won't be overwhelmed if I can't see many others.
The ones I want to watch:
*I am what I am
*Father of the milky way railroad
*Single8
*I Go GaGa
*Jungle emperor Leo (this one I watched when I was a kid so I'm looking forward to it because nostalgia)
*BL Metamorphosis
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Date: 2024-06-11 07:49 am (UTC)Paused I Go GaGa 35 minutes in, will try again later. Maybe it was the wrong day to try, maybe it's just the pace of J-documentaries.
Tried JE Leo yesterday but the ear-flicker repetition wasn't good for my brain, especially so soon after the other one messed me up. Hopefully later will be better. I saw enough to know that I had indeed seen it as a young child, it was the strangest deja vu with all of these very forgotten visual memories being unlocked for the first time in half a century.
BL Metamorphosis and i am what i am are top of the list, along with The Zen Diary and Baby Assassins.