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Stop scrolling. Put on The Makanai . Turn the volume up for the sound of the oil splashing in the tempura pot. That is the sound of the best television you aren’t watching yet.

Grade: A+ From the director of Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi). This is the anti- Succession . It follows two teenage girls in Kyoto’s geisha district. There is no villain. No murder. Just the sound of simmering dashi broth and the click of wooden sandals. It is therapeutic cinema that reviews cannot do justice. The-Big-Penis-Book-1114.pdf

They don't offer the escapism of Hollywood or the fantasy of Seoul. They offer . They show salarymen crying in pachinko parlors, single mothers cooking curry at 1 AM, and teenagers afraid to confess their love not because they are shy, but because they fear the burden of a relationship. Stop scrolling

Grade: A Imagine Homeland directed by Akira Kurosawa. VIVANT starts as a corporate fraud drama, morphs into a desert survival thriller by episode 2, and by episode 4, you are watching a Central Asian civil war. It is insane, expensive, and the most ambitious Japanese television production ever made. The acting is operatic; the plot holes are forgiven because the energy is unmatched. That is the sound of the best television