HAPIVERI Magazine
A Magician of Images: Director Kazuyuki Izutsu'...
Born in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, in 1952, Kazuyuki Izutsu grew up in the lively atmosphere of a postwar working-class neighborhood. A frequent cinema visitor from childhood who often encountered films...
A Magician of Images: Director Kazuyuki Izutsu'...
Born in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, in 1952, Kazuyuki Izutsu grew up in the lively atmosphere of a postwar working-class neighborhood. A frequent cinema visitor from childhood who often encountered films...
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 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...
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...
Yoichi Takabayashi’s Visual Expression and Expe...
Japanese cinema is celebrated worldwide for Akira Kurosawa’s period films and Yasujiro Ozu’s tranquil human dramas, but it also includes experimental filmmakers who pursued new visual possibilities. Among them, Yoichi...
Yoichi Takabayashi’s Visual Expression and Expe...
Japanese cinema is celebrated worldwide for Akira Kurosawa’s period films and Yasujiro Ozu’s tranquil human dramas, but it also includes experimental filmmakers who pursued new visual possibilities. Among them, Yoichi...