The movies I watched in 2023

In Tokyo, from their breakup to their first meeting, the love story between Teruo, a classical dancer, and Yô, a taxi driver, told in reverse. They remember their most intimate days, every year on July 26, the day they met and separated.

A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Follows 17-year-old Ryota Miyagi, who struggles to accomplish his late elder brother's dream of becoming a basketball star.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical novel. They meet again in a station...

Sawako's scrapbook details her teenage fascination with older men. At 20, still home, relationship with former co-worker Mori triggers sexual, emotional awakening and newfound self-assurance.

A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.

At the Yamaguchi art center, a university student participates in a workshop, wherein individuals must examine local botany.

Taeko and her husband, Jiro, are living a peaceful existence with son, Keita. A tragic accident brings the boy's father, Park, back into her life. Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man to cope with pain and guilt.

Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.

A doctor working in 1980s East Germany finds herself banished to a small country hospital.

An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.

Yella is estranged from her possessive and violent husband; but he can't quite bring himself to give her up. When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift.

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star.

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

The dishonorably discharged Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. That's when Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss's young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle is born, unfolding in desolate northeast Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hopes for fulfillment of their dreams.

The principal of the kindergarten put a lot of effort into teaching music to the kids because it was "free". The was of importance because the kindergarten was under the threat to be shut down. Thus, the principal decided to run a fund-raising dinner and invited the alumni of the kindergarten to donate. The dinner, however, turned out to be a failure because the alumni weren't able to donate much money, because the alumni were mainly gangsters. Later, the principal found an agent to publicize the choir of the kindergarteners and help them earn performing opportunities. After attending several performances, with astounding performances, including one in the concert of Andy Lau, the agent scammed all the money the choir earned and ran away. The kindergarten shut down eventually, but the musical education the alumni received had profound influence on them.

Pazu's life changes when he meets Sheeta, a girl whom pirates are chasing for her crystal amulet, which has the potential to locate Laputa, a legendary castle floating in the sky.

Miles Morales catapults across the multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a hero.

At the most difficult low point in Jue Xiao's life, Dai Chun appeared like a ray of sunshine breaking through the darkness. In a closed environment, the two go from knowing each other to falling in love, weaving the possibility of happiness with love, and also rescuing each other from the heavy fog. As the good life continues, the test of reality also comes to their love. Can they still become the best person in each other's eyes?

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.

A shy but smitten college boy pursues a NY go-go boy through the pretext of making a documentary film about him, with the guys knowing each other only as "Doc" and "Go."

A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.