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It’s a Summer Film! (2020)
Something is very telling with the way time-travel narratives appeal recently in Japanese Pop Culture. From anime’s Tokyo Revengers and Bokutachi no Remake, to interests captured by Summer Timemachine Blues’ recent restoration, to that latest one-take film, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. Especially with the context of the on-going pandemic, that every day we seem…
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Notes on Godzilla Resurgence and Love & Peace
Godzilla Resurgence (left); Love & Peace (right) Two sides of the same sentiment, but of different political position. Both has something to do with United States’ Nuclear Terror attack back in 1945. Both uses the Kaiju as a metaphor to the Nuclear bomb. First, Hideaki Anno’s and Shinji Higuchi’s Godzilla Resurgence (2016) as outright rightist,…