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Tag Archives: High School
Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): A cheerful (and spooky) high school horror comedy film
I could not help but get tickled more than once while watching South Korean film “Idiot Girls and School Ghost: School Anniversary”, which is as ridiculously funny as its rather long title suggests. Clearly influenced by not only “Whispering Corridors” … Continue reading
Happyend (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): The defiance during their last high school year
Japanese film “Happyend” observes a group of high school kids showing some spirit and defiance during the last year at their school. While they try to go further for more fun and freedom day by day, they are also often … Continue reading
Sister Yoojung (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): The truth about her younger sister
South Korean film “Sister Yoojung” is about a young woman who comes to realize that she has not been that close to a family member she should have supported and comforted more. While its story begins with a rather alarming … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, High School, High Schooler, Preganacy, Sisters, South Korean Film
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Heavy Snow (2023) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Between Two Girls
South Korean film “Heavy Snow” depends a lot on the presence of its two lead actresses. Whenever they are together on the screen, they click well with each other all the time in addition to ably filling their rather under-developed … Continue reading
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Tagged Actress, Fantasy, High School, Homosexuality, Romance, South Korean Film, Sports, Surfing
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Saving a Dragonfly (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Painfully personal
South Korean documentary film “Saving a Dragonfly” is painfully personal at times. It initially looks like as an innocuous personal project recording what was the most important period in the director and her classmates’ last high school year, but it … Continue reading
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Tagged College, Documentary, High School, Real-life figure, Real-life story, South Korean Film
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No Heaven, But Love (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): A modest high school queer romance film
I could not help but get distracted more than once as watching South Korean independent film “No Heaven, But Love”. While it mostly works as a modest but intimate high school queer romance film, the movie is rather uneven on … Continue reading
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Tagged Athlete, High School, High Schooler, Homosexuality, Romance, South Korean Film
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Worlds Apart (2024) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): As life goes on for her and her aunt
Japanese film “Worlds Apart” simply strolls along with its two very different main characters who somehow find a way to get along with each other as respecting each own boundary. While the movie itself is mostly mild and gentle on … Continue reading
Single8 (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): One little summer filmmaking
Japanese film “Single8” will bring a smile to anyone who has ever been fascinated with filmmaking. Like many similar films such as other recent Japanese film “It’s a Summer Film” (2020), the movie is brimming with the joy and excitement … Continue reading
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Tagged Coming-of-age drama, Filmmaker, Filmmaking, High School, High Schooler
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Victory (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): Let’s cheer for them!
South Korean film “Victory” cheerfully and exuberantly dances and jumps around a number of familiar genre elements, and, what do you know, I liked it more than expected. While it will surely remind you of a bunch of similar films … Continue reading
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Tagged Comedy, Friendship, High School, High Shcool, South Korean Film, Sports
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On the Come Up (2022) ☆☆(2/4): A conventional and messy mix of rap and coming-of-age drama
I saw through nearly everything in “One the Come Up”, a rather conventional mix of rap and coming-of-age drama. This is so predictable and contrived in terms of story and characters that I could easily guess each plot turn it … Continue reading
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