HAPIVERI Magazine
Yoichi Takabayashi: The Honjin Murders and Sayu...
Cinema has different expressive methods for each genre. Yet Yoichi Takabayashi skillfully combined the seemingly opposing elements of mystery and eros to build a distinctive visual world.
Yoichi Takabayashi: The Honjin Murders and Sayu...
Cinema has different expressive methods for each genre. Yet Yoichi Takabayashi skillfully combined the seemingly opposing elements of mystery and eros to build a distinctive visual world.
Yasuzo Masumura's Film Techniques and Expressiv...
Masumura's films are known for bold compositions and camera work. During the late 1950s and 1960s, when Japanese cinema introduced widescreen technologies such as CinemaScope, he made full use of...
Yasuzo Masumura's Film Techniques and Expressiv...
Masumura's films are known for bold compositions and camera work. During the late 1950s and 1960s, when Japanese cinema introduced widescreen technologies such as CinemaScope, he made full use of...
Kohei Oguri's Visual Expression: Applying Light...
Many of Oguri's films adapt literary works, and his choices reflect his own literary sensibility. Through adaptations of important Japanese writers, including Yukio Mishima's The Sting of Death (1990), Teru...
Kohei Oguri's Visual Expression: Applying Light...
Many of Oguri's films adapt literary works, and his choices reflect his own literary sensibility. Through adaptations of important Japanese writers, including Yukio Mishima's The Sting of Death (1990), Teru...
Shiro Toyoda's Films and Distinctive Directing ...
Shiro Toyoda developed a distinctive approach to directing through the effective contrast of stillness and movement. His arrangement and direction of actors' movements in interior dramas in particular were meticulously...
Shiro Toyoda's Films and Distinctive Directing ...
Shiro Toyoda developed a distinctive approach to directing through the effective contrast of stillness and movement. His arrangement and direction of actors' movements in interior dramas in particular were meticulously...
A Master of Japanese Cinema's Golden Age: The L...
The Ball at the Anjo House (1947) stands out in film history as one of Toyoda's signature works. In this portrayal of the decline of the upper classes during the...
A Master of Japanese Cinema's Golden Age: The L...
The Ball at the Anjo House (1947) stands out in film history as one of Toyoda's signature works. In this portrayal of the decline of the upper classes during the...
Shinya Tsukamoto's Notable Films, Part 2: Explo...
The body and violence are inseparable themes in Shinya Tsukamoto's work. In Tokyo Fist (1995), he uses boxing to depict the explosion of repressed impulses in people living in the...
Shinya Tsukamoto's Notable Films, Part 2: Explo...
The body and violence are inseparable themes in Shinya Tsukamoto's work. In Tokyo Fist (1995), he uses boxing to depict the explosion of repressed impulses in people living in the...