Closing film of this year’s Japan Cuts is a good look at 1st and 6th graders in a Japanese school as the new year begins.
Playing as a kind of Frederick Wiseman film for the younger crowd. The film is several slices of life as we watch the various kids as they learn the skills and are molded into proper Japanese.
I enjoyed the film a great deal, an I kind of which it was a series more than a single feature because I would have tuned in every week to see what happens next.
If you are wondering why this piece is short it’s more that since the film is the closing film for Japan Cuts I was expecting something meatier. This isn’t a knock against the film, which I enjoyed the hell out of, rather I was ready and primed to see a film full of ideas and thematic threads and instead I got a light, but informative and entertaining film. All of my desire to attack the film and really discuss it disappeared in the cute faces of a bunch of kids I wanted to hug.
Most definitely worth see THE MAKING OF A JAPANESE closes the 2024 edition of Japan Cuts
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