Author Archive: Retro

Fifteen-year-old David has little interest in his cultural heritage. His grandfather takes him into the forest to give him an understanding of his forefathers, the Native Americans.

Diabetic ex-boxer sets out to find a prostitute’s murderer when he becomes angered at everybody’s indifference.

A political critique of the Japanese patriarchal family structure. The ideal Japanese family here is seen as militaristic, absurdly incestuous, and patriarchal. The father wearing his military uniform is dominating his family sexually and violently. And while his daughter keeps saying that everything is normal, nothing is normal in this family. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out.