BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN (2022) film review by Mark R. Leeper and Evelyn C. Leeper)

[Philip De Parto]

The following review is reprinted with permission from

THE MT VOID
12/22/23 -- Vol. 42, No. 25, Whole Number 2307

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BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN (2022)  (film review by Mark R. Leeper and

Evelyn C. Leeper)

BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN (2022): BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN is
based on several stories by Haruki Murakami.  Katagiri is a failing
salaryman in Japan who one day finds there is a giant frog that
talks and sings to him.  This is actually a fairly common theme in
animated films from Japan, along with the theme of the natural as
supernatural, which also appears frequently in Japanese folklore.

There is also a young man whose girlfriend is fixated on watching
television reports of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011.  There is
a teenager who is dissatisfied with with her life.  There are also
UFOs and sex.  The stories intertwine, but there are several
different animation styles used to tell them.  [-ecl]

Released theatrically 14 April 2023.  Rating: +1 (-4 to +4), or
6/10.

Film Credits:
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9320184/reference>

What others are saying:
<https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/blind_willow_sleeping_woman>