japanese movie review: shin yukiguni [新雪国]
i have posted a japanese movie review. future japanese and korean movie reviews can be found on the right side of the column, under “pages”. please feel free to comment, and to post your own ratings, if you’ve seen the film. thanks!
excerpt from the review page:
“shin yukiguni” 新雪国, [new snow world, or new snow country] is a film by the director goto koichi.
it’s a story of a failed tokyo business owner kunio shibano sullenly played by okuda eiji. in his fifties, after his business having failed and a mountain of debt and creditors out for his blood, he sells his house, is divorced from his wife, and with what cash he can muster, decides to find a quiet place up north in the small town of tsukioka to blow his meager remaining fortune and, ultimately, to die…
