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Tag: Toshio Matsumoto

The Maddening Mystery of Dogra Magra

  By Olga Tchepikova-Treon June 1, 2025 June 1, 2025 BLEAK WEEK
A light-skinned Asian man with short dark hair in a white robe is holding on to the bars of an ornamental window places on the wall of a dark room with faded walls and a minimally equipped bed placed on the left side of the frame. His face signals devastation.

| Ryan Sanderson | Dogra Magra (Toshio Matsumoto, 1988) is a detective story the same way that Radiohead’s King of Limbs is a dance album. Many of the pieces are there, but they’re arranged in a way that will infuriate some and perplex many more. It left me surfing through doctoral theses on… Continue reading

Tagged   detective film, Japanese cinema, Toshio Matsumoto

From Roses to Dogra: Speculating Toshio Matsumoto’s Bleak Cinematic Journey

  By Olga Tchepikova-Treon June 1, 2025 June 1, 2025 BLEAK WEEK
The young man wakes up on the floor of the mental hospital.

| Dan Howard | When was the last time you had a really messed up dream? Did you want to just shake it off and forget the dream, or did it pique your curiosity? In the case of both avant-garde and bleak storytelling, it’s speculated that those who are drawn towards… Continue reading

Tagged   detective film, Japanese cinema, Toshio Matsumoto
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