HAPIVERI Magazine

A Revolutionary beyond the Boundaries of Documentary: Susumu Hani's Documentary Aesthetics

A Revolutionary beyond the Boundaries of Docume...

Susumu Hani is a revolutionary figure in the history of Japanese documentary cinema. Making his directorial debut in 1952 at just 24, he developed one expressive technique after another that...

A Revolutionary beyond the Boundaries of Docume...

Susumu Hani is a revolutionary figure in the history of Japanese documentary cinema. Making his directorial debut in 1952 at just 24, he developed one expressive technique after another that...

Takashi Koizumi's Directing Methods: Applying Pauses and Presence to Video Production

Takashi Koizumi's Directing Methods: Applying P...

Takashi Koizumi's films have captivated many film lovers with their distinctive directing style Particularly characteristic is his use of ma, or pauses.

Takashi Koizumi's Directing Methods: Applying P...

Takashi Koizumi's films have captivated many film lovers with their distinctive directing style Particularly characteristic is his use of ma, or pauses.

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...

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Bringing Composition and Social Engagement into Video Production

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Brin...

Seppuku was described as the fulfillment of a samurai's deepest wish. But were its aesthetics and honor truly sincere?

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Brin...

Seppuku was described as the fulfillment of a samurai's deepest wish. But were its aesthetics and honor truly sincere?

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition: Bringing Questions of Peace into Video Production

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Cond...

Masaki Kobayashi was one of postwar Japanese cinema's most committed seekers of conscience and ethics. He was a director who confronted war's inhumanity without evasion, inscribing it directly onto the...

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Cond...

Masaki Kobayashi was one of postwar Japanese cinema's most committed seekers of conscience and ethics. He was a director who confronted war's inhumanity without evasion, inscribing it directly onto the...

Techniques That Reveal the Inner Fire: The Essence of Tomu Uchida’s Visual Expression

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...