HAPIVERI Magazine

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...

A Story of Returning to Origins: The Source of Creation in Go Shibata's The Beginning of Things

A Story of Returning to Origins: The Source of ...

Presented in 2023 as the centerpiece of the Return to the Future exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Go Shibata's The Beginning of Things is regarded as an...

A Story of Returning to Origins: The Source of ...

Presented in 2023 as the centerpiece of the Return to the Future exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Go Shibata's The Beginning of Things is regarded as an...

Takashi Koizumi's Life in Film: From Assistant Director to Master Filmmaker

Takashi Koizumi's Life in Film: From Assistant ...

Born and raised in Tokyo, Takashi Koizumi spent his childhood in the wartime era of 1944, when memories of war were vivid.

Takashi Koizumi's Life in Film: From Assistant ...

Born and raised in Tokyo, Takashi Koizumi spent his childhood in the wartime era of 1944, when memories of war were vivid.

Masaki Kobayashi: Ethics, the Power of Silence, and His Voiceless Resisters

Masaki Kobayashi: Ethics, the Power of Silence,...

Masaki Kobayashi's works feature many such voiceless resisters. Within oppressive societies and unreasonable institutions, they rebel without raising their voices, calmly or silently, seeking to uphold their own ethics.

Masaki Kobayashi: Ethics, the Power of Silence,...

Masaki Kobayashi's works feature many such voiceless resisters. Within oppressive societies and unreasonable institutions, they rebel without raising their voices, calmly or silently, seeking to uphold their own ethics.

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.

Miwa Nishikawa: Stories and Visual Aesthetics That Explore Human Nature

Miwa Nishikawa: Stories and Visual Aesthetics T...

Miwa Nishikawa is a director and screenwriter known in contemporary Japanese cinema for her sharp eye and deep understanding of people. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1974, she entered the...

Miwa Nishikawa: Stories and Visual Aesthetics T...

Miwa Nishikawa is a director and screenwriter known in contemporary Japanese cinema for her sharp eye and deep understanding of people. Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1974, she entered the...