Tag: Japanese Cinema
Festival de Cannes Review: Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
Monster is the latest film from renowned Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous prolific work includes films such as Broker and Shoplifters, which had their…
Fantasia 2020 Review – Labyrinth of Cinema (2020)
Nobuhiko Obayashi was a true revolutionary of cinema. Most might know the filmmaker for his 1977 cult classic House. Obayashi has steadily been working behind…
Fantasia 2020 Review – Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020)
It seems obvious what the result of a battle between 588 men and 1 samurai would be. With the odds drastically against the samurai, it…
1994 in Film: Pom Poko
Where generally when it comes to Studio Ghibli and anime film in general, the majority of the attention goes towards the works of Hayao Miyazaki….
Festival de Cannes Review: The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
One of the many hidden gems within 1950’s Japanese cinema is 1958’s The Ballad of Narayama, which is a masterpiece with supreme depth and emotions….
Dark Cinema: Horror from Japan and Korea
An Overview By Ren Zelen ‘No body’ does it better When a new era of Asian horror films entered mainstream Western cinema with Hideo Nakata’s…
1957 in Film: I Am Waiting
Japanese cinema from the 1950s remains one of the strongest periods in film ever. With masters in cinema such as Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, and,…
1957 in Film: Tokyo Twilight
Tokyo Twilight is a devastating film, full of tragedy, sadness, and internal suffering that is rarely caught on screen so eloquently. It’s a film of a…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Samurai Marathon
Samurai Marathon by Bernard Rose delivers exactly what it promises in the title. There is indeed a marathon in the film in which the participants…
Festival de Cannes 72 Countdown: Soshite Chichi ni Naru / Like Father, Like Son, 2013
We excitedly countdown to the 72nd Festival de Cannes with a different prize winning film each day. Soshite Chichi ni Naru / Like Father, Like…
Feeling Blue: The deeply disturbing Perfect Blue
It’s hard to find the words to describe Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, but I shall do my best to describe it. Perfect Blue is an…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Dah
“[Abbas] Kiarostami gave the Iranian cinema the international credibility that it has today. But his films were unfortunately not seen as much in Iran. He…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Nove
“Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Siedem
“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn’t matter if you transport them to a world of intuition…
