Unrated
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024
Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025
RT: 93% critics / 61% audience
Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent
Synopsis
Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.
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Unrated
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024
Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025
RT: 93% critics / 61% audience
Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent
Synopsis
Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.
Rated R
Runtime: 1hr 48min
Directed by Francis Lawrence
Written by JT Mollner, based on the novel by Stephen King
Stars: Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill
Released in US September 12, 2025
RT: 90% critics / 85% audience
Currently in theaters
Synopsis
In the United States of an undetermined year, 50 boys are chosen from a lottery - one from each state - to walk as long as they possibly can. They may not drop below 3mph. The last boy standing wins.
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing Cuckoo, currently streaming on Hulu and Kanopy
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Unrated
Runtime: 2hr 4min
Written & Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa and Daiken Okudaira
Premiered at Venice International Film Festival August 30, 2024
Released in US (limited) July 18, 2025
RT: 93% critics / 61% audience
Currently streaming on Criterion or available to rent
Synopsis
Yoshii lives in Tokyo and resells goods on the internet as a side hustle while working in a factory. When Yoshii takes his reselling gig to the next level and quits his day job, he and his girlfriend leave the city for a house in the country. There it seems that Yoshii is being targeted by an unknown assailant. But with a profession that traffics in pissing a lot of people off, which of his enemies has it out for him?
Join us again in two weeks when we will be reviewing the quarterly release from Oz Perkins, Keeper, opening in theaters November 14.