HAPIVERI Magazine

Reassessing Director Minoru Shibuya: Applying Characterization and Structure to Video Production

Reassessing Director Minoru Shibuya: Applying C...

The Japanese film industry of the 1950s truly deserved to be called a golden age. Along with postwar reconstruction, cinema flourished, and studios competed to release masterpieces. Shochiku stood at...

Reassessing Director Minoru Shibuya: Applying C...

The Japanese film industry of the 1950s truly deserved to be called a golden age. Along with postwar reconstruction, cinema flourished, and studios competed to release masterpieces. Shochiku stood at...

Junya Sato's Cinematic World: Applying Blockbuster Planning to Video Production

Junya Sato's Cinematic World: Applying Blockbus...

Director Junya Sato (1932–2019), known as “Mr. Blockbuster,” was sometimes regarded as a superficial entertainer because of his spectacular large-scale films.

Junya Sato's Cinematic World: Applying Blockbus...

Director Junya Sato (1932–2019), known as “Mr. Blockbuster,” was sometimes regarded as a superficial entertainer because of his spectacular large-scale films.

Takahisa Zeze's 64: Truths About Organizations and People Revealed by an Unsolved Case

Takahisa Zeze's 64: Truths About Organizations ...

64 is Takahisa Zeze's screen adaptation of Hideo Yokoyama's bestselling novel. The title refers to the case number of a young girl's kidnapping and murder in Showa 64. Still unsolved...

Takahisa Zeze's 64: Truths About Organizations ...

64 is Takahisa Zeze's screen adaptation of Hideo Yokoyama's bestselling novel. The title refers to the case number of a young girl's kidnapping and murder in Showa 64. Still unsolved...

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.

Learning from Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist: Using Nature and Silence in Video Production

Learning from Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not...

Evil Does Not Exist is a film in which director Ryusuke Hamaguchi focuses on the relationship between nature and human society. Set in a small village, the story depicts how...

Learning from Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not...

Evil Does Not Exist is a film in which director Ryusuke Hamaguchi focuses on the relationship between nature and human society. Set in a small village, the story depicts how...

The Origins of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema: Applying Conversation and Silence to Video Production

The Origins of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema: Appl...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978. Interested in stories and visual arts from an early age, he grew up surrounded by books and films. He was particularly...

The Origins of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema: Appl...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978. Interested in stories and visual arts from an early age, he grew up surrounded by books and films. He was particularly...