"Japanuary."

How a Letterboxd event led to "Tokyo Story," a 1953 film that packs a punch about modernity and human nature.

As I wrote in one of the year-end posts looking forward to changes in 2025, getting more involved in the Letterboxd world and delving deeper into film was high on the list.

We all have to keep an effort up to make change, of course, and so I’m not surprised that I came a little bit late to the fifth annual “Japanuary Challenge” on Letterboxd, where the …