(Spoiler alert)

I’ve always been a movie goer and thus when a good film comes by, I can vouch for its 5-star rating.
The movie I’m going to review is Brave Story, yes I know it sounds cheesy and all. But please, don’t be fooled by its simple title.
Brave Story is about a protagonist named Wataru with everything that an 11-year old needs in life, until it all comes crashing down. Left alone in the world with a father who abandoned his family, followed by a mother who is lying in bed …

Simplicity is beauty. Hayao Miyazaki must have had that in mind when he produced the animation My Neighbor Totoro. Unlike most of Studio Ghibli’s earlier films, it is less action packed. However, My Neighbor Totoro makes up for that by telling a story that is simple, comfortably paced and relates to the audience on a personal level.
The film evokes both the wonders and terrors one experiences as a child. When a child becomes an adult, things would never be the same. My Neighbor Totoro invokes nostalgia in its audience about …

Preface:
Since the 1920s, Hollywood has been dominating the film industry and in most cases, it is not unusual to find someone who has not watched a film that is produced by his own country. Thus, national films, especially those from the Asian region suffer as Hollywood films draw away their audiences.
In recent years however, there has been a rapid surge in international recognition of Asian films. Though this is partly due to them being more readily available on video and DVD, films from Asia are also increasingly winning top …

This paper briefly explores the depiction of Japanese female central characters in
the classical cinema of Ozu and Mizoguchi and the reasons surrounding why
these directors chose to do use women as protagonists.

Summer Wars is the story is about a young high school student, Kenji Koiso, a math genius who has just started his summer break and is asked by his secret crush, and older student, Natsuki Shinohara, to go with her to her family home for a summer job, he agrees to it immediately, only finding out later that his “summer job” requires him to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancée. As Kenji tried his best to keep up with Natsuki’s back stories of himself, he receives a strange message on his “keitai” (which are mobile phones of Japan) asking him to solve a ridiculously long mathematical problem and of course, being a math genius, he cannot resist solving it. In doing so, he unleashes something terrible in the Internet world of OZ.