Yeah watching Burning, along with Shoplifters, In the Mood for Love and most of Bong Joon Ho’s work is basically what made me feel I needed to see more. Such a great selection of films and for that to be nearly all that ive seen from those countries? Sad
Have recently bought two close friends birthday presents in the form of Japanese fiction, urging them to delve deeper into what I consider to be the world’s best literature scene, yet admittedly I consider myself to have barely scratched the surface myself. So lots more discovering Japanese writers like Mieko Kawakami, Yoko Tawada, Kobe Abe, Hiromi Kawakami etc
Plus I’d like to re-read some of my favourites like In Cold Blood and American Pastoral
The Truth reminds me of Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows in that it was each of the respective directors’ first films not in their native language, and they simply weren’t that good.
After the Storm, on the other hand, is exceptional.