Category: 2022 Films
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chie Hayakawa (director), Plan 75, 2022. 112 min. Perhaps storytelling is an indispensable part of being human? Perhaps we all need to tell ourselvesβand each otherβcertain stories to get…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “The Stories We Live By: Narrative, Meaning, and Existential Emptiness in Chie Hayakawa’s ππππ 75” by Anders KΓΈlle](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/chie-hayakawa-plan-75.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Lee Sol-hui (director), Greenhouse, 2022. 100 min. Lee Sol-huiβs film Greenhouse is a domain of sickness. There is illness everywhere, physical, mental, social, degenerative. The only character…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “A Domain of Sickness: Lee Sol-hui’s πΊππππβππ’π π” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/greenhouse-2022-film-still.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryo Takebayashi (director), Mondays: See You “This” Week!, 2022. 102 min. Ryo Takebayashiβs time-loop film Mondays: See You “This” Week!βs most obvious film of comparison is Groundhog…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] “Over and OverβRyo Takebayashi’s ππππππ¦π : πππ πππ’ ‘πβππ ’ ππππ” by Oliver Farry](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/the-pigeon.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (directors), Stonewalling, 2022. 148 min. The first time she wears the t-shirt she paces before a mirror practicing a tongue twister. βForty…
![[REVIEW] βFemme Fatale: On Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsukaβs ππ‘ππππ€ππππππβ by Nirris Nagendrarajah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/huang-ji-ryuji-otsuka-return-with-third-collaboration-with-yao-honggui-stonewalling.webp?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Chan Tze-Woon (director), Blue Island, 2022. 97 min. A history student, I linger in the Hong Kong Museum of Historyβs condensed Hong Kong Story exhibition: one room per millennium,…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βA Hong Kong History in Chan Tze-Woonβs π΅ππ’π πΌπ ππππβ by Michelle Suen](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/blue-island.png?w=1024)
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