“Keep your cool!” yells the ageing, secretly ailing trainer Jin to his young protégé Shogo during boxing matches. But that's easier said than done. Everyone in One Last Bloom carries the emotional baggage of dysfunctional family backgrounds, missed opportunities and the strange peril attached to any second chance.
One Last Bloom of course brings to mind the dilemmas and dynamics of Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004) and the Rocky series, with breathtaking choreography of the sparring and a story that builds towards the final, title bout. The film holds firm to its particular naturalistic, anti-sensationalist and engaging depiction of fighting and the preparation it takes alike.
The prolific director Takahisa Zeze has forged a career spanning ‘pink porno' (his Tokyo X Erotica was enthusiastically greeted by the IFFR audiences in 2002) and highly successful mainstream fare. For him, whatever the genre, the goal is always the same: to engage the...
One Last Bloom of course brings to mind the dilemmas and dynamics of Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby (2004) and the Rocky series, with breathtaking choreography of the sparring and a story that builds towards the final, title bout. The film holds firm to its particular naturalistic, anti-sensationalist and engaging depiction of fighting and the preparation it takes alike.
The prolific director Takahisa Zeze has forged a career spanning ‘pink porno' (his Tokyo X Erotica was enthusiastically greeted by the IFFR audiences in 2002) and highly successful mainstream fare. For him, whatever the genre, the goal is always the same: to engage the...
- 1/10/2024
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
We are living with a generation that is increasingly obsessed with multiverses and the fluid concept of time, so it was only genius for Kazuaki Kiriya to hop on the bandwagon and deliver his rumored ‘final piece of work', set in Japan of the near future. Working with concepts along the veins of his previous apocalyptic “Casshern (2004)”, the director known for his outlandish ideas, takes us on a time-bending journey of samurais, nuclear attacks, and magical grimoires.
From the End of the World is screening at Japan Cuts
As the great expanse of earth gives way to a bleak forest fire, a child suddenly appears and finds herself in the fray of death and destruction in Edo Japan. Everything is a picture of charcoal-blackness but the blood that flows around her is a sea of striking red (expertly manipulated by cinematographer Chigi Kanbe). Color then returns as the picture transitions to the modern world.
From the End of the World is screening at Japan Cuts
As the great expanse of earth gives way to a bleak forest fire, a child suddenly appears and finds herself in the fray of death and destruction in Edo Japan. Everything is a picture of charcoal-blackness but the blood that flows around her is a sea of striking red (expertly manipulated by cinematographer Chigi Kanbe). Color then returns as the picture transitions to the modern world.
- 8/1/2023
- by Leon Overee
- AsianMoviePulse
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