PEOPLE / 2 WORKS

Akemi Okamura

Also credited as 岡村明美

TV 1999Now and Then, Here and ThereHideyuki Kurata

anime · 1999

Now and Then, Here and There

Movies 1992Porco RossoHayao Miyazaki

anime · 1992

Porco Rosso

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Diego Luna

Movies 2016Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryChris Weitz

Movies · 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Forest Whitaker

Movies 2016Rogue One: A Star Wars StoryChris Weitz

Movies · 2016

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

PEOPLE / 3 WORKS

Kanta Kamei

Also credited as 亀井幹太

TV 2017Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend ♭Kanta Kamei

anime · 2017

Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend ♭

TV 2015Saekano: How to Raise a Boring GirlfriendKanta Kamei

anime · 2015

Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend

TV 2013OreshuraTatsuhiko Urahata

anime · 2013

Oreshura

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Ko Shibasaki

Also credited as 柴咲コウ

Movies 2000Battle RoyaleKinji Fukasaku

I'd not seen this movie in 20 years and I remembered is as a campy, gory film with unexpected influence. And that really sells it short, this is a great movie, full stop. There is a reason this movie launched a sub genre of both fiction and video games, it nails so many things. I think what struck me most viewing it again was how the movie has a dozen vignettes we get to see play out. Friendships, rivalries, and cliques all play the same game to much the same result, but the film does a great job of establishing all of this at lighting speed. There is the main through-line with the leads but their classmates get a ton of screen time which lends the entire affair a huge degree of verisimilitude. Oh, also if you can catch the 25th anniversary screening it starts an interview with the writer, Kenta Fukasaku which is really interesting as his dad directed this.

Movies · 2000

Battle Royale