Kana Yamamoto (Mayuma Yoshida) returns from Vancouver to her Tokyo home, for the first time in a decade, for her grandmother’s funeral. Kana is a struggling artist yet to find success like her late artist grandfather. As well she has yet to find success in love after being “dumped” by her Tokyo boyfriend Hiro (RyoContinue reading “RKS 2025 CANADIAN Film: “Akashi”: Wisdom of the Cuckolds”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Inedia”: A Deadly Convergence of Flummox and Eating Disorders
Cora’s aversion to eating spirals out of control to the point that she considers herself allergic to all foods even parsley. While at dinner at her sister’s she has a few bites of a bizarre vegetarian dish and runs to the toilet to induce vomiting. Her condition worsens. Her GP does not share her thoughtsContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Inedia”: A Deadly Convergence of Flummox and Eating Disorders”
RKS 2023 Film: “Master of the House”: Vancouver International Film Festival: A Sommelier Nightmare
“Master of the House” is a short film offering a snapshot of a sommelier and his gal pal chef at a Vancouver restaurant specializing in “indigenous reclamation cuisine”. Vince (Brendan Meyer) is a sommelier at a popular restaurant being part poet and perhaps equal part bullshitter selling the appropriate wine with dishes served by theContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Master of the House”: Vancouver International Film Festival: A Sommelier Nightmare”
RKS 2023 Film: “back home” at Vancouver International Film Festival
Canadian Nisha Platzer has crafted a moving documentary about the suicide of her brother Josh that occurring in Vancouver when Josh was 15 and Nisha 11. Josh was suffering from clinical depression at the time of his suicide. Nisha has dim memories of the death of Josh and convenes both family and friends to giveContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “back home” at Vancouver International Film Festival”
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