Look Back

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uh well we are all here with our uh backs facing the camera ready to talk about uh the 2024 film look back uh but before we get into that which i'm sure we have much to say um we'll go around the uh proverbial katatsu see what everybody's drinking uh danny what are you drinking

uh i just finished a cold brew from a local cafe but i had to stop by i was like i need some groceries probably so i stopped by the aldi that's nearby me god bless them uh you can get anything there for like a buck uh and i was like i have some like locally roasted coffee beans from from my old cafe that i worked at i could grind that make a like little mocha pot like you know fake kind of latte shit and i was like no they have they have coffee concentrate here i'm just gonna buy some of that so i got some of that and i uh added some chocolate milk and uh cookie dough syrup so you know i'm living large it is in a sealed bottle because my my cat reese's is nearby and is eyeing it she's like i want to knock that shit over but i'm not letting her

she's smelling

Sometimes we do show and tells.

Sometimes we don't even watch anime on these.

But this time we decided we would watch the 2024 film animated film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back.

um which just recently had its blu-ray release which is what made me think about us watching this so i had an excuse to go through my uh fancy new g kids 4k um i guess we can start with a little bit of background on our history i will go first just because i'm pretty sure i am the only one who has not seen the movie before um doing this podcast about it uh but i have read the manga uh Like the manga quite a bit, but I read it after I read Goodbye Eri, which I like more, but I think they're both very good.

This is a collection of one-shot manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto that he drew from the ages of 17 through 26.

He's, of course, known as the author of Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man and Look Back.

So this got adapted to an anime anthology series, and it's on Amazon Prime.

P.A. Works produced Episode 8, titled Sisters.

Mm-hmm.

And during a rare mid-series break from the relentless grind of Chainsaw Man, Fujimoto wrote a standalone one-shot called Look Back.

I've heard of that one.

It's fantastic.

While the production company behind the film has already cancelled several promotional events at the Busan International Film Festival due to the ongoing fallout.

Legendary Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda brought his latest work, Look Back, to the 31st Busan International Film Festival, marking his return to the event three years after presenting Monster at the 28th edition.

The acclaimed director sat down for a press conference at the Busan Cinema Center, alongside stars Furi Nanase, Natsuki Deguchi, Aju Makita and Roka Okada.

discussing how he transformed Tatsuki Fujimoto's beloved manga into its first ever live-action adaptation.

Kore-eda revealed that discovering the manga by chance in a bookstore left such a deep impression on him that it sparked a personal question he carried throughout filming, essentially asking himself why he makes movies at all.

The deeply personal film, which follows two girls bonding over their shared dream of making manga, was shot entirely on 35mm film across a full year of location shooting in Akita Prefecture, with the director explaining that using film let him focus completely on capturing authentic moments without the temptation to alter things in post-production.

Look Back already competed at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival and had its North American premiere in Toronto before this special outdoor screening in Busan.

And Korean audiences can catch it in theatres nationwide starting October 8th.