HAPIVERI Magazine
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.
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...
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...