All posts tagged "Cinema of Japan"
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Interviews
Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Air Doll)
February 4, 2022Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to a thematic subject matter he knows well: loneliness and emptiness....
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Reviews
Air Doll | Review
February 4, 2022There is No Substitute: Kore-eda Digs into Our Rubber Soul with Fantasy Flick Reinterpreting the notion...
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Annual Top Films Lists
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #69. Koji Fukada’s Love Life
January 9, 2022Love Life Just a couple of weeks back we saw Japan’s Koji Fukada name attached to a...
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Interviews
Video Interview: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car
November 29, 2021Filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s mesmerizing character studies (2015’s Happy Hour, 2018’s Asako I & II) often snag...
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Reviews
Drive My Car | Review
November 22, 2021Lamprey Love: The Play’s the Thing in Hamaguchi’s Brooding Saga of Regrets “When one has no...
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Reviews
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Review
October 14, 2021Flesh+Fantasy: Hamaguchi Harvests Regrets in Eloquent Triptych One of Japan’s most compelling and profound contemporary auteurs...
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Reviews
Wife of a Spy | Review
August 27, 2021Spy Game: Kurosawa Finds Passion & Terror in History’s Gloom One doesn’t tend to associate period...
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Reviews
True Mothers | Review
January 26, 2021Mother Has Arrived: Kawase Returns with Intersecting Drama on Motherhood Recently, Naomi Kawase, a staple amongst...
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Reviews
A Girl Missing | Review
July 31, 2020Guilt by Dissociation: Fukada Explores the Burden of Others in Exemplary Melodrama Director Kôji Fukada presents...
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Disc Reviews
Skin is In: Ishii’s Signature Erotic Violence in Inferno of Torture (1969) | Blu-ray Review
July 14, 2020An unsung eccentric of Japanese cinema is Teruo Ishii, referred to in his native country as...