Relaxing with Darth Vader in Manhattan after
taking the Japanese Proficiency Test.
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Welcome!
My name is Dan. I study Japanese films because of a lifelong interest in Japanese culture and as a method of improving my limited Japanese language skills, and because my own developing film project features a small amount of Japanese dialogue in the script.
Recently I returned from New York where I took the basic level of the annual worldwide Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).
You can read about the testing controversy at New York's Columbia University on the language study news page. Podcast audio recordings documenting the testing process and my Japanese themed week in NY coming soon.
For Japanese Language Students
Each movie review here includes a short comment at the end referencing the film's suitability for listening comprehension practice.
About the author of this site: I am an aspiring filmmaker working on my first feature length film. Though my own film takes place primarily in America in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the story does have a strong Japanese connection and there are a few lines of Japanese dialogue in the script.
For persons interested in Japanese cinema, Japan as a whole, or maybe also studying the language like me, I hope this site helps you pick out some entertaining and satisfying movies to add to your DVD collections and online rental queues.
Thank you for visiting.
Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome.
Dan Savage
Dan@SavageSnow.com
Reviews are divided into the following directories:
Drama~~~Comedy~~~Samurai~~~Adult
Action~~~Animation~~~B&W~~~Kurosawa
If you should happen to want to start at the beginning and click through the reviews in the
order they were written, Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon would be the movie to start with.
Film review titles listed in alphabetical order can be found on this page.
