Sentences with phrase «japanese dog movies»
The undisputed champion of Japanese dog movies.
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Wes Anderson's «Isle of Dogs» has received near universal acclaim from film critics (the movie currently has a 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes), but even some who have enjoyed the stop - motion film have taken issue with the director's representation of Japanese culture.
No such drastic punishment awaits Wes Anderson's («The Grand Budapest Hotel») modern day Isle of Dogs, however, though there are some who would be inclined to banish it to movie purgatory for its many Japanese cultural references that tread a thin line between homage and appropriation.
While I'm not as negative as some have been about Isle of Dogs «cultural appropriation — admittedly due to the fact I'm not as familiar with Japanese culture as I'd like to be — there were some things that Wes Anderson did with the movie that left me feeling uneasy.
Anderson has made it no secret that Isle of Dogs is his own idiosyncratic salute to the collective works of iconic Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Rashomon), so the hope is that the movie will also be culturally sensitive in its westernized take on Japanese cinema tropes.
This week, I stumbled across a trailer for a Japanese movie called Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, which had even more weight than it would have before learning of Orlando's story.