Month: February 2026
DAGON FILMS — THE LAST BREATH OF TRUE UNDERGROUND CINEMA The underground used to mean something. It was not about shock for shock’s sake, or about easy clicks and fake fame. Today, the indie field is drowning in imitation — “extreme” films without a soul, short movies pretending to be arthouse, labels chasing algorithms instead
When About a Place in the Kinki Region (2025) was first announced, I wasn’t able to discern that it was directed by Koji Shiraishi—the announcement came in the form of two poster reveals on my feed, with the description in all Japanese—but when I looked at the poster with the female character’s face on it,