It feels like March was a month that just would not end. As is with many people, I haven’t left my house in several weeks (except for a few trips to the grocery store), so my movie watching increased quite a bit this month. As you will see after the cut, I’ve continued watching A LOT of Japanese films. I feel that trend will continue for the foreseeable future. As always, after the cut you can see everything I watched, plus a few highlighted favorites.

1. La historia oficial (The Official Story)
2. El Norte
3. Honey Boy
4. The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy
5. Spenser Confidential
6. Nobody’s Fool (1986)
7. Lost and Delirious
8. Home Again
9. Ueru tamashii (Hungry Soul)
10. Zoku ueru tamashii (Hungry Soul, Part II)
11. Lost Girls
12. Takers
13. Into The Inferno
14. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
15. Chasing Trane
16. Man kann nicht alles auf einmal tun, aber man kann alles auf einmal lassen (You Can’t Do Everything at Once, But You Can Leave Everything at Once)
17. Still
18. Hinterland
19. Aves
20. Old Man (2012)
21. Mobilize
22. Good Intentions (2018)
23. The Above
24. Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
25. Skipped Parts
26. The Daytrippers
27. Bakumatsu taiyôden (Sun In The Last Days of the Shogunate)
28. You Light Up My Life
29. If Lucy Fell
30. Tampopo
31. Birders
32. Sitara: Let Girls Dream
33. Lorena, La de pies ligeros (Lorena, Light-footed Woman)
34. Emma.
35. Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs)
36. Crip Camp
37. Anjô-ke no butôkai (A Ball at the Anjo House)
38. Uncorked
39. Nippon konchûki (The Insect Woman)
40. Bacurau
41. Kokoro (The Heart)
42. Onna wa nido umareru (Women Are Born Twice)
43. Sweet Hearts Dance
44. Mr. Jones

1880s: 0
1890s: 0
1900s: 0
1910s: 0
1920s: 0
1930s: 0
1940s: 01
1950s: 04
1960s: 04
1970s: 01
1980s: 06
1990s: 03
2000s: 03
2010s: 17
2020s: 05

Here’s a few favorites from last month.

La historia oficial (The Official Story), 1985 (dir. Luis Puenzo)

El Norte, 1983 (dir. Gregory Nava)

Ueru tamashii (Hungry Soul) & Zoku ueru tamashii (Hungry Soul, Part II), 1956 (dir. Yûzô Kawashima)

Tampopo, 1985 (dir. Juzo Itami)

Emma., 2020 (dir. Autumn De Wilde)

Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), 1960 (dir. Mikio Naruse)

Anjô-ke no butôkai (A Ball at the Anjo House), 1947 (dir. Kōzaburō Yoshimura)

Kokoro (The Heart), 1955 (dir. Kon Ichikawa)

Onna wa nido umareru (Women Are Born Twice), 1961 (dir. Yûzô Kawashima)