Sensei Sensibility

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. If the plot of Netflix's new K-thriller Unlocked is anything to go by, it looks like I'm not the only one who's been bingeing the hit show You . The gorgeous Lee Na-mi (Chun Woo-hee) is a carefree, and careless, twenty-something student who, like most twenty-something-year-olds, charges through life with her phone firmly glued to her hand, relying on it for every conceivable thing.  After a night of wild partying, the unthinkable happens and Na-mi wakes to find her phone missing! Fear not, gentle Na-mi, for a kindly voiced woman has just rung saying she found your phone on the night-bus, with its screen cracked, and has helpfully left it in for you to be repaired at Woo's Phone Repair.  Crisis averted!  Thoughts and prayers of gratitude for this good...

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Let me ask you, "are you ready to die for the Emperor?" Regardless of your answer, one person who certainly isn't ready to die anytime soon, and in fact has been explicitly forbidden to die, is young Hiroo Onoda. (Solidly played by both Yuya Endo and Kanji Tsuda.) Hand-picked by the Japanese intelligence service in 1944, Onoda is now stationed in World War II Lubang, where he and his troops must carry out merciless Guerilla warfare and suicide missions in the name of "the Fatherland." Such is Onoda's unyielding devotion to his sinister boss, Colonel Yoshimi Taniguchi (Issey Ogata) , and his feral abhorrence of surrender, Onoda refuses to back down and cease fighting, even when the war ended almost thirty years ago.  Arthur Harari's 2hr 46min slow burn ep...