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Interview with Kazuhiko Hasegawa
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
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.
China in Wartime Japan
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 (...)
INTERVIEW WITH SHINJI IMAOKA
"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 for me"
Interview with Nobuhiko Obayashi
A popular figure in the world of Japanese cinema and television, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s career spans more than 50 years. While mainly known for the unique horror film House, Obayashi’s filmmaking journey has been just as unusual (...)
Interview with Masahiro Kobayashi
“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. It’s unimaginable to me to think that wanting to have (...)”
Elsewhere
Poetics of an Urban Darkness: Takashi Ito's Spectral Cinema
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Interview with Kaiju FX Artist Yasuyuki Inoue
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Observations on Japanese Cinema after 3/11
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The Closed World: The Films of Shinoda Masahiro
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Interview with Inoue Umetsugu about musicals film
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Discovering Yasuzo Masumura
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Kazuo Hara's production diary
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The Cinema of Mikio Naruse
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Passing through the Image - Takamine Hideko
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About Seijun Suzuki's Branded to Kill design
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Tokyo FILMeX: Platform for Japanese arthouse cinema
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Toshiro Mifune - The Last Shogun