PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Hal Olofsson

TV 2011Awkward.Lauren Iungerich

TV · 2011

Awkward.

Untracked

PEOPLE / 2 WORKS

Peter Hoar

TV 2019The Umbrella AcademySteve Blackman

TV · 2019

The Umbrella Academy

Dropped

TV 2018Altered CarbonLaeta Kalogridis

TV · 2018

Altered Carbon

Dropped

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Takeshi Kitano

Also credited as ビートたけし

Movies 2000Battle RoyaleKinji Fukasaku

I'd not seen this movie in 20 years and I remembered is as a campy, gory film with unexpected influence. And that really sells it short, this is a great movie, full stop. There is a reason this movie launched a sub genre of both fiction and video games, it nails so many things. I think what struck me most viewing it again was how the movie has a dozen vignettes we get to see play out. Friendships, rivalries, and cliques all play the same game to much the same result, but the film does a great job of establishing all of this at lighting speed. There is the main through-line with the leads but their classmates get a ton of screen time which lends the entire affair a huge degree of verisimilitude. Oh, also if you can catch the 25th anniversary screening it starts an interview with the writer, Kenta Fukasaku which is really interesting as his dad directed this.

Movies · 2000

Battle Royale

PEOPLE / 1 WORK

Yuuji Yuuji

Also credited as 裕時悠示

TV 2013OreshuraTatsuhiko Urahata

anime · 2013

Oreshura