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About A Place in the Kinki Region (2025): A Slow-Burn Japanese Mockumentary Horror with Occult Dread

Are you looking for a Japanese mockumentary horror movie with an occult theme and a chilling twist? About A Place in the Kinki Region might be exactly what you’re looking for. (Official Poster) Also known as: Kinki Chiho no Aru Basho ni Tsuite Native Title: 近畿地方のある場所について Director: Koji Shiraishi Release Date: August 8, 2025 Duration: 1 hour and 43 minutes Casts: Eiji Akaso, Miho Kanno, Atom Shukugawa, etc. About A Place in the Kinki Region follows Yusei Ozawa (Eiji Akaso) and Chihiro Seno (Miho Kanno) as they investigate the mystery behind a missing magazine editor, Sayama (Atom Shukugawa), who specializes in occult magazines. Sayama disappears after working on a strange case, leaving behind only fragments of media related to his investigation. As Ozawa and Chihiro piece these clues together, they realize that everything seems to trace back to a specific place in the Kinki region, where bizarre and terrible events have occurred. ***  This movie is adapted from a novel with the same...
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Marry My Husband (Japan) Review: Betrayal, Revenge, and Choosing Yourself

If life gave you second chance, would you rewrite your story or repeat the same mistakes? Hello & Intro Hello, everyone! It's been a long time since I had been here. I miss writing in this blog, so here I am, trying to be more active in the rest of 2025😆 As the title suggests, today I want to review a Japanese drama that has stirred the drama world recently, Marry My Husband. Also known as: Watashi no Otto to Kekkon Shite Native Title: 私の夫と結婚して Director: Ahn Gil Ho Screenwriter: Satomi Oshima Genres: Thriller, Romance, Drama, Fantasy Episodes: 10 Aired: June 27, 2025 - July 25, 2025 Drama Overview Misa Kanbe (Fuka Koshiba) is a selfless, kind woman who often puts other people first. She finds her husband (Yu Yokoyama) cheats on her with Reina (Sei Shiraishi), her best friend. Misa's world crumbles, and due to the betrayal, she loses her life. When Misa opens her eyes, she is back in 2015, ten years before the betrayal. She plans on getting revenge o...
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The Ultimate Green Flags: Japanese Movie Men Who Set the Standard

Hello, everyone! Long time no see. I feel guilty for not writing in this blog, but at the same time, I also have so many things to do in real life(╥﹏╥) but let's start again and hopefully, I can be more consistent in the future! As the title suggests, let's start September with my ultimate Japanese movie boyfriends( ⸝⸝´꒳`⸝⸝) I make this list with no particular order, since they are all the walking green flags. Some of the movies that will be featured 1. Our Meal for Tomorrow (2017) Rice bag jump game that begins their relationship A love story between a quiet Ryota Hayama (Yuto Nakajima) and a cheerful and bright Koharu Uemura (Yuko Araki) that begins with a rice bag jump games in their high school days. They start dating and eventually fall in love when they have a date on a family restaurant.  Opposite attract, grumpy x sunshine, and a heartwarming story. I am kind of surprised that not many people talk about this movie. The chemistry is awesome and the story has a beautiful ...
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Revisiting First Love in 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days (2024)

Hello, everyone! As the title suggests, I want to discuss Japanese x Taiwanese movie that released this year, 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days. Theatrical Poster Also Known As: Sei Shun 18×2 Kimi e to Tsudzuku Michi, Qing Chun 18×2 Er Tong Wang You Ni De Lu Cheng Native Title: 青春18×2 君へと続く道 Screenwriter & Director: Michihito Fujii Genres: Romance, Life, Youth, Drama Release Date: March 14th, 2024 Duration: 2 hours and 3 minutes Casts: Greg Hsu, Kaya Kiyohara, Shunsuke Michieda and others.  This dual timeline movie tells a 36-year-old Jimmy (Greg Hsu), as he goes back to his hometown in Tainan, after an incident that ruins his career. There, he finds photos of his friend group from his past, when he was 18 years old. That was the time when he met his first love, a Japanese woman named Ami (Kaya Kiyohara). Jimmy, without any planning, decides to travel to Japan. Greg Hsu as Jimmy Kaya Kiyohara as Ami Another movie that breaks my heart, but in the best ways possible. This movie is one of...
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Matched (2023) Review: A Twisted and Thrilling Mystery Movie

Hello, everyone! Today I want to share a short review of Matched (2023).  Official Poster Native Title: マッチング Screenwriter & Director: Eiji Uchida  Genres: Thriller, Mystery Release Date: October 9th, 2023 Duration: 1 hr. 50 minutes Casts: Tao Tsuchiya, Daisuke Sakuma, Nobuaki Kaneko, and others. Tao Tsuchiya stars as Rinka, a wedding planner, who feels unlucky with her life. Her mother left when she was so much younger and she also has no luck in dating. One day, she is matched with Tomu (Daisuke Sakuma) through a dating app. In real life, Tomu is completely different than in the app. He starts bombarding her with text messages and even stalking her. At the same time, married couples who met through the same dating app are killed brutally.  As the story goes, clues are unraveled one by one. We also get to see Rinka's life. Her family's life is full of secrets and we will slowly see what happened and why this dating app is so important.  Rinka with her father, af...
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Eye Love You (2024) Review: A Drama That Has So Much Potential

Hello, everyone! I didn't write a review for last week so I will post 2 this weekend. Let's talk about Japanese drama with a South Korean actor as one of the leads, Eye Love You. Official Poster  Native Title: アイラブユー Directors: Ryosuke Fukuda, Shingo Okamoto, Akiko Kato Screenwriters: Kisa Miura, Subaru Yamashita, Saki Miura Genres: Comedy, Romance, Supernatural  Episodes: 10 Release Date: January 23 - March 26, 2024 Casts: Fumi Nikaido, Chae Jong Hyeop, Taishi Nakagawa, Mizuki Yamashita, and the others. Yuri Motomiya (Fumi Nikaido) had an accident when she was a child. After this accident, she can hear other people's inner voices if she looks at their eyes. Sometimes, she gets hurt by this ability, so she has difficulties in expressing her emotions and also afraid to know other people's true feeling. She also gives up on love long time ago. One day, Yuri meets Yoon Tae Oh (Chae Jong Hyeop), a friendly, bright, South Korean student. She can hear his inner voice too, but...
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