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BEST WISHES TO ALL MOVIE REVIEW
When you’re a kid you don’t really notice the routines of your parents until you leave the house and take a peek through the kitchen window. On the outside looking in you might notice some things overlooked by the wide eyes of your innocent childhood. Father stressed about work. Mother’s anxiety over the well prepared meal. Maybe even a ritual akin to the occult. Adapted from their short film, writer director Yûta Shimotsu presents Best Wishes to All. Training to be a nurse in the big city of Tokyo, the unnamed protagonist (Kotone Furukawa) returns to the countryside to visit her grandparents’ home. As a child, the miso soup dinners with her grandparents are a precious memory, although the activities of the house at night was the stuff of nightmares. Best Wishes to All is an unsettling, claustrophobic thriller about what a person is willing to take from another in order to secure their future and stoke the fires of their own happiness. Bradly, Drew, and Lewayne call upon the powers of the ancient critics to remain as vague as possible, implementing the awkward silence, astute reference, and nuanced quotations of film makers past in discussing the first step of a possible future J-horror classic.
DIRECTED BY: Yûta Shimotsu
STARRING: Masashi Arifuku, Kotone Furukawa, Aine Hara, Yoshiko Inuyama, Kôya Matsudai
YOUR REVIEWERS
Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)
Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the brood. If trends continue, Scientists predict that .2% of Canada (where Bradly and family reside) will be populated by Bradly’s children by the year 2029. You can hear him leading and listening to his favorite critics on the Screener Squad and Eye on the prize and maybe even provide some comments of his own.
Drew Tinnin (Screener Squad, Highly Suspect Reviews, Deliberations of Doom)
Drew Tinnin is a Rondo Award nominated interviewer and critic who has worked at SiriusXM’s Fangoria Radio and Fangoria magazine in NYC, as well as the London-based Dazed Digital. Currently a regular contributor to the Dread Central Network, he’s excited to join up with some old friends and other film fans on One of Us as a new contributor to Screener Squad.
Lewayne White (Screener Squad)
Lewayne’s earliest memories are of watching movies and reading comics, which instilled in him a sense of wonder, a vivid imagination, and unrealistic expectations. It also means he spends a lot of time watching movies, writing scripts for them, and trying to get them made. He lives in the middle of middle America after landing there as a child, and has remained there mainly because he hates packing.
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