Eigagogo http://eigagogo.free.fr/en Exploring Japanese Cinena Interview with Kazuhiko Hasegawa http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/interview-kazuhiko-hasegawa.php With a firm footing, Hasegawa would hold the reins like a pro for the only two feature films he would helm as director: The Youth Killer and The Man Who Stole the Sun. These two films wildly different on the surface, make a multitude of ... Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/interview-kiyoshi-kurosawa.php Categorised as a master of horror and suspense, one probably forgets all too quickly the trajectory of a filmmaker who has worked on a wide range of films and explodes the division that contrasts auteurism from genre film. Interview with Shinji Imaoka http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/interview-shinji-imaoka.php “Pink films are not a stepping stone to mainstream films. I just think about the project in front of me. I try not to divide things into pink or non-pink. I don’t go through pink movies to get to mainstream. The two are parallel.” The Cinematic Portrayal of Sino-Japanese Relations in the Early War Years 1937-1940 http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/shina-in-wartime-japan.php In grappling with the entirety of China, Japanese cinema began to reflect an ambivalence towards the land it now occupied and the people it ruled over, an unease that would continue to grow in tandem with the deepening of its understanding of the continent and the causes of war. Interview with Masahiro Kobayashi http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/interview-masahiro-kobayashi.php “My style is completely different from other directors. Not so much in the process of making films but in my cutting technique and my choice of subjects. And using my own money.” Interview with Nobuhiko Obayashi http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/interview-nobuhiko-obayashi.php “When I was a kid, I found lots of photos and picture books from foreign countries in a back shed. They were all in color, and we didn’t have those in Japan around that time. I really liked those beautiful pictures, and wanted to shoot something like them in a film.” Interview with Go Shibata http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/interview-go-shibata.php "I’ve often been told by my friends that my films are quite different from myself. I’m not the type of person that gets too serious. I yearn to explore the darker side of things. It’s not in me. I want to get closer" Belladonna of Sadness http://eigagogo.free.fr/en/belladonna.php The content of Belladonna's story was radically different from any other animated feature up to that point, Japanese or otherwise, but its method of storytelling was just as radical and managed to promote some form of feminist ideology.