Sensei Sensibility

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour Asian viewing;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your televisual appetite. If you're looking for an entertaining (yet deeply uncomfortable) watch over the holiday break, you'd do a lot worse than the eight episode Studio Mir Korean anime Lookism .  Piggy in the Middle  Bottom Adapted for Netflix from Taejun Pak's webtoon of the same name, Lookism is part slice-of-life/part body-swapping fantasy that confronts the viewer with harsh themes of bullying, trauma and exclusionary social classification. Park Hyeong-seok is a chubby loner with unfashionable glasses and what is obviously a home haircut. Savagely bullied at school by his classmates, events escalate to the point where Hyeong-seok's mother must transfer him to a new school in the big city, where he can start again with a clean, un-bullied slate. (By the way, the overly adult, tattooed and muscular

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. If, this festive season, you're looking for a Christmas movie with genuine class and intelligence, the darkly comic  Tokyo Godfathers  (2003) is a 92 minute gift to yourself.  Already a fan of director Satoshi Kon’s work (in particular, the iconic horror  Perfect Blue  and anime thriller  Paranoia Agent ) I had long been anticipating a time when I would  finally  get to watch this unique re-imagining of... the birth of Jesus Christ. (Literally.) Tokyo Godfathers  kicks off on a Tokyo Christmas Eve, and  three homeless persons  stumbling upon an abandoned new-born girl, hidden in the garbage. This small trio of ragtag misfits then embark upon a fantastical, yet grimly real, quest to return the baby to her birth mother. Leading the group is irascible middle-aged alcoholic,  Gin , who has a past