5 Best Releases Starring Makiko Watanabe

The Spool Staff

愛のむきだし 最長版 THE TV-SHOW

Created bySion Sono,
Watch afterBreaking Bad Bright Future, Game of Thrones Mr. Robot Sherlock Star Trek: Discovery The Haunting of Hill House, The Umbrella Academy Unorthodox,
StarringAtsuro Watabe, Hikari Mitsushima, Makiko Watanabe, Sakura Ando, Takahiro Nishijima,
Directed bySion Sono,
StudioOmega Project,

Just when you think we’ve reached peak saturation in true crime adaptations, well…here’s one more. However, though Hulu’s Candy is the first of two takes on the same 40 year-old murder to come out this year (HBO Max’s Love and Death, starring Elizabeth Olsen and Lily Rabe, is the other, release date TBA), for the first few episodes at least it treats its gruesome, sobering subject with respect and seriousness, and the individuals involved as real people as opposed to caricatures and archetypes. It also goes beyond the crime itself, depicting a not-too-distant past when women admitting that they were bored and unhappy was treated as a grievous personal failing. Continue Reading →