YOUR JAPANESE MOVIE REVIEW MINUTE

Satoshi Kon's PAPRIKA premiered at the Venice Film Festival, earning a five minute standing ovation at the end.

You can read ScreenDaily's glowing review ("If John Tenniel, the original illustrator of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, had been reincarnated as an anime director then he might have produced something like this...one of the more refreshingly original animation titles we are likely to see this year.") which even takes the time to throw a brick at poor old Goro Miyazaki's EARTHSEA ("On the evidence here it’s easy to see why his work, rather than the more conventional Tales Of Earthsea – directed by Hiyaki Miyazaki’s son Goro – made it into the main competition at Venice.")

Then, Aaron Gerow reviews EVERYONE BUT JAPAN SINKS for Daily Yomiuri giving it three out of five stars ("...flushes the blockbuster's conception of Japan--and not a small amount of good taste and propriety--down the drain...often clumsily made, the acting substandard (especially by the non-Japanese actors), and the jokes and pathos wear thin, but even its dash of satire feels like a fresh sea breeze, one that may keep you afloat in these often uncritical times.")