HAPIVERI Magazine

Gakuryu Ishii's Influence on Cinema and His Cultural Legacy

Gakuryu Ishii's Influence on Cinema and His Cul...

The emergence of Gakuryu Ishii, formerly Sogo Ishii, had an immeasurable influence on Japanese cinema and underground culture from the 1980s onward. In filmmaking, he was a pioneer who demonstrated...

Gakuryu Ishii's Influence on Cinema and His Cul...

The emergence of Gakuryu Ishii, formerly Sogo Ishii, had an immeasurable influence on Japanese cinema and underground culture from the 1980s onward. In filmmaking, he was a pioneer who demonstrated...

Tatsuya Mori Confronts Social Issues: Japanese Society Seen from Minority Perspectives

Tatsuya Mori Confronts Social Issues: Japanese ...

A consistent feature of Tatsuya Mori's work is his examination of Japanese society from the perspective of social minorities and those who are excluded. This creative attitude functions not simply...

Tatsuya Mori Confronts Social Issues: Japanese ...

A consistent feature of Tatsuya Mori's work is his examination of Japanese society from the perspective of social minorities and those who are excluded. This creative attitude functions not simply...

Learning Video Direction from Shusuke Kaneko: Applying Cross-Genre Planning to Production

Learning Video Direction from Shusuke Kaneko: A...

A Driving Force of the J-Horror Boom: The Ju-On Series Opened New Forms of Fear Explore the path that established new expressions of fear in horror and created the cultural...

Learning Video Direction from Shusuke Kaneko: A...

A Driving Force of the J-Horror Boom: The Ju-On Series Opened New Forms of Fear Explore the path that established new expressions of fear in horror and created the cultural...

A Legacy in Film History: Yasujiro Shimazu's Films and Their Lineage

A Legacy in Film History: Yasujiro Shimazu's Fi...

Yasujiro Shimazu, one of the directors who supported Japanese cinema's golden age, was born in 1897 and left more than eighty works before his death in 1945 at the young...

A Legacy in Film History: Yasujiro Shimazu's Fi...

Yasujiro Shimazu, one of the directors who supported Japanese cinema's golden age, was born in 1897 and left more than eighty works before his death in 1945 at the young...

Director Susumu Hani: The Breadth of His Creative Work and Its Reassessment Today

Director Susumu Hani: The Breadth of His Creati...

Susumu Hani is an exceptionally distinctive filmmaker in Japanese cinema, moving freely between documentary, fiction, educational films, and children’s films. Born in 1928, he joined Iwanami Productions and emerged as...

Director Susumu Hani: The Breadth of His Creati...

Susumu Hani is an exceptionally distinctive filmmaker in Japanese cinema, moving freely between documentary, fiction, educational films, and children’s films. Born in 1928, he joined Iwanami Productions and emerged as...

Yoichi Takabayashi: The Honjin Murders and Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire — A Fusion of Mystery and Eros

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.