HAPIVERI Magazine
Lessons from Kihachi Okamoto’s *Kill!*: Applyin...
*Kill!* is a 1968 period film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and released by Toho. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto’s *Seventeen Days at Fort Mountain*, it won the Art Direction Award at...
Lessons from Kihachi Okamoto’s *Kill!*: Applyin...
*Kill!* is a 1968 period film directed by Kihachi Okamoto and released by Toho. Based on Shūgorō Yamamoto’s *Seventeen Days at Fort Mountain*, it won the Art Direction Award at...
Learning from Yoshihiro Nishimura's Helldriver:...
Helldriver is a zombie action film made in 2010 by Yoshihiro Nishimura, who gained worldwide attention with Tokyo Gore Police, and released in Japan on July 23, 2011. Characterized by...
Learning from Yoshihiro Nishimura's Helldriver:...
Helldriver is a zombie action film made in 2010 by Yoshihiro Nishimura, who gained worldwide attention with Tokyo Gore Police, and released in Japan on July 23, 2011. Characterized by...
A Kingdom of Boys: The Formative Landscape of K...
Produced in 1981 as Kazuyuki Izutsu’s feature debut, Empire of Kids is a strongly autobiographical film based on the director’s own childhood experiences. Set in Osaka’s Ikuno district in the...
A Kingdom of Boys: The Formative Landscape of K...
Produced in 1981 as Kazuyuki Izutsu’s feature debut, Empire of Kids is a strongly autobiographical film based on the director’s own childhood experiences. Set in Osaka’s Ikuno district in the...
A Magician Weaving a Distinctive Cinematic Worl...
One director stood out with a distinctive presence in Japanese cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. His attention was always directed toward ordinary people's daily lives, and he excelled at...
A Magician Weaving a Distinctive Cinematic Worl...
One director stood out with a distinctive presence in Japanese cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. His attention was always directed toward ordinary people's daily lives, and he excelled at...
Techniques That Reveal the Inner Fire: The Esse...
The defining characteristic of director Tomu Uchida’s visual expression is its remarkable fusion of rigorously unsentimental realism with surprisingly delicate poetry. Viewers of his films are first overwhelmed by their...
Techniques That Reveal the Inner Fire: The Esse...
The defining characteristic of director Tomu Uchida’s visual expression is its remarkable fusion of rigorously unsentimental realism with surprisingly delicate poetry. Viewers of his films are first overwhelmed by their...
Learning from Drive My Car: Using Loss and Dial...
Drive My Car is based on the story of the same name in Haruki Murakami's collection Men Without Women. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi offers his own interpretation of the source's introspective...
Learning from Drive My Car: Using Loss and Dial...
Drive My Car is based on the story of the same name in Haruki Murakami's collection Men Without Women. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi offers his own interpretation of the source's introspective...