Girl and boy do summer loving but there's a folkloric legend about women being taken by water and there's a flood coming in El Agua (Elena López Riera, 2022). Atmospheric, somber pensive, intuitive magic realism. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #SpanishCinema

Vlak na Franco's dood belandt een jongeman in de gevangenis, waar hij meteen begint te rebelleren tegen het onmenselijke regime in Modela 77 (Alberto Rodríguez, 2022). Adembenemend gevangenisdrama, gebaseerd op feiten. #FrontaalNaaktFilm

Undercover agent zit achter yakuzabaas aan maar moet zijn bloedbroeder verraden om zijn missie te volbrengen. The Mole Song: Final (Takeshi Miike, 2021) is nog platter en absurder dan zijn twee voorgangers. Niet te missen dus. #FrontaalNaaktFilm

Boxing is more intimate than sex in Underdog part 2 (Take Masaharu,2020). Rocky done the Ken Loach way in Japanese in this gritty, bleak, sweaty and very violent drama. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema

Ik hou niet van sportfilms maar ik heb nog nooit een slechte Japanse boksfilm gezien. In Underdog Part 1 (Masaharu Take, 2020) wordt een uitgerangeerde bokser uitgedaagd door een komiek die iets te bewijzen heeft. Rauw maar humaan. #FrontaalNaaktFilm

Woman takes sugar daddies to pay for her father's debts and her brother's tuition but is frowned upon by the very men who depend on her in Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936). Stylish and lean feminist melodrama. Impressive. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema

Warrior peasant Mifune Toshiro leads his army against treacherous samurai in Rise Against the Sword (Ishii Kan, 1966). Mifune is an oafish brute in this noisy historical, western-like epic and Otowa Nobuko is put to waste as his doting sow. #FrontaalnaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema

Franse regeringsvertegenwoordiger op Polynesisch eiland krijgt lucht van plan voor een nucleaire test in Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022). Lome, hypnotiserende soort anti-thriller met absurdistische trekjes. Niet te missen, deze zomer in de bios. #FrontaalNaaktFilm

Couple gets baby, quarrels, she moves in with her parents, then her mother gets ill in Cinco Lobitos (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, 2022). Naturalistic movie shows how it really is, being a family, loving each other, being annoyed by each other, loss, grief, solace. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #SpanishCinema

Couple gets baby, quarrels, she moves in with her parents, then her mother gets ill in Cinco Lobitos (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, 2022). Naturalistic movie shows how it really is, being a family, loving each other, being annoyed by each other, loss, grief, solace. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #SpanishCinema

Kurdish regufee girl is happy in Japan but in danger of being evicted due to the inhuman refugee policy in Japan. My Small Land (Kawawada Emma, 2022) has some problematic aspects but also a warm heart. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema

School girls make a new friend, a white girl who turns out to be a vampire in I Can't Stop Biting You (Oshii Mamoru, 2022). Idiotically funny nonsense with an irresistable charm. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #iffr2023 #JapaneseCinema

Two shit-peddlers and a down-on-her-luck samurai's daughter find out that nobody can touch you once you've hit rock bottom in Okiku and the World (Sakamoto Junji, 2023). Deeply tragic, very funny and poetically human. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #IFFR #JapaneseCinema

Mentally volatile woman crashes complacent family and becomes their darling in How To Find Happiness (Shunichi Nagasaki, 2022). Very well made comedy seems like a light-hearted version of Kore-eda's Still Walking. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #IFFR #JapaneseCinema

Young woman has sex with older men because she feels unloved by her father in Hand (Matsui Daigo, 2022). Film in the so-called Roman Porno tradition is sincere and profound. Would have won prestigious prizes if it had been French. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema #IFFR

Scriptwriter has affair with a beautiful woman in the hereafter in Convencience Story (Miki Satoshi). Charming and clever folkloric fantasy with a light psycho-philosophical touch. Reminds me of Terayama Shuji's films. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema #IFFR2023

South Korean Intelligence officers beat and torture and shoot their way through a plot to assassinate the president in Hunt (Lee Jung-jae, 2022). Outrageously violent and fast-paced spy thriller with shocking plot-twists. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #KoreanCinema

Hyperactive child is misunderstood and neglected in a family suffering from the aftermath of a stillbirth in Amiko (Morii Yusuke, 2022). Drama from child's perspective is lighthearted with touches of disturbingly cruel reality. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema #iffr2023

Hyperactive child is misunderstood and neglected in a family suffering from the aftermath of a stillbirth in Amiko (Morii Yusuke, 2022). Drama from child's perspective is lighthearted with touches of disturbingly cruel reality. #FrontaalNaaktFilm #JapaneseCinema #iffr2023

Sword fighting farmer's son joins the war against Westernization of #Japan in Unbroken Samurai (Harada Masato, 2021). Good action scenes and complicated politics (historically accurate), eye-popping cinematography and excellent acting. #JapaneseCinema #FrontaalNaaktFilm