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August in the Water 1995
Hazuki Izumi (Reno Komine) stands on the edge of a rooftop looking out at the city beneath her. A clutter of competing architecture styles and buildings at various points of development: scaffolding, newly-built, maturing, declining, abandoned, condemned. Traffic lights glow, cars drone, and roads curve. A web of powerlines connects every part of the city. Hazuki is deep in thought, contemplating something or other, almost as if she’s listening to something we can’t quite hear. Her friend Mao (Shinsuke Aoki)…
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Mission: Improbable 2001
Best Supporting Actor: John Woo
Also seems like the seed that would become Tropic Thunder.
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The Mudge Boy 2003
A thoughtful film about masculinity. Honestly told, which made it an uncomfortable watch. After finishing it, I was depressed and thought it was only ok. I found myself thinking about it a lot and came to appreciate its resonance.