The Witches of the Orient
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The story of the 1964 Japanese Olympic volleyball team, the "Oriental Witches."
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Metacritic
Jul 15, 2021
Fusing exquisitely shot color 16mm footage from 1964 of the team’s training sessions, drone-like music and splices of animation, we get a delirious sense of what these committed women endured six out of seven days a week.
Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
Jul 8, 2021
For all the film’s playful artistry, the effect is more scattershot.
Jessica Kiang
Variety
Jul 6, 2021
The film’s fanciful archival montages shrewdly demonstrate the ways in which memory and art seamlessly combine to document reality.
Mark Hanson
Slant Magazine
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