Tatami : Exclusive Interview with Actress Arienne Mandi

Topical and Heart Wrenching: 'TATAMI' (2025) - Review

Timing is everything for a film release, especially when it comes to finding an audience. The timing for a film like Tatami, with it’s themes of politics, oppression, and foreign relations, set in the microcosm of an international sports competition, couldn’t be more perfect. Synopsis “Leila, an Iranian judo athlete is put in political danger … The post Topical and Heart Wrenching: ‘TATAMI’ (2025) – Review appeared first on PopHorror.

Tatami : Exclusive Interview with Actress Arienne Mandi

Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on  TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New York branch office but he didn’t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for vi…

Film Review | 'Tatami'

Tatami opens with an establishing shot looking out a bus window divided in two by a straight line. The cinematography is black and white, the landscape passing by slowly. Viewers sense that this is a world we are about to step into—a world of absolutes, with no middle ground. The camera pans to a group of athletes sitting quietly; one in the center frame is listening to Persian rap music.  The bus arrives at the World Judo Championship, in the G…

TATAMI Trailer Judo Slams Online For The New Dramatic Thriller - Film Combat Syndicate

TATAMI opens this Friday in select theaters! The post TATAMI Trailer Judo Slams Online For The New Dramatic Thriller first appeared on Film Combat Syndicate.