HAPIVERI Magazine

Kazuo Kuroki's War Requiem: Applying Memory to Video Production

Kazuo Kuroki's War Requiem: Applying Memory to ...

In the few years from the early 2000s until his death, director Kazuo Kuroki released three works on the theme of war.

Kazuo Kuroki's War Requiem: Applying Memory to ...

In the few years from the early 2000s until his death, director Kazuo Kuroki released three works on the theme of war.

Lessons from Kazuo Kuroki's A Boy's Summer in 1945: Applying Memory to Video Production

Lessons from Kazuo Kuroki's A Boy's Summer in 1...

There are no gunshots or explosions in this film. The characters quietly live their daily lives, and a boy simply faces the emotions of adolescence. Yet war is certainly present...

Lessons from Kazuo Kuroki's A Boy's Summer in 1...

There are no gunshots or explosions in this film. The characters quietly live their daily lives, and a boy simply faces the emotions of adolescence. Yet war is certainly present...

A Magician of Images: Director Kazuyuki Izutsu's Journey

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...

Takahisa Zeze, a Filmmaker of Darkness and Light: A Realist Portrait of Contemporary Society

Takahisa Zeze, a Filmmaker of Darkness and Ligh...

Takahisa Zeze is known as one of Japanese cinema’s directors with the sharpest social perspectives. Born in 1961, he applies the viewpoint he developed in television documentary to filmmaking, earning...

Takahisa Zeze, a Filmmaker of Darkness and Ligh...

Takahisa Zeze is known as one of Japanese cinema’s directors with the sharpest social perspectives. Born in 1961, he applies the viewpoint he developed in television documentary to filmmaking, earning...

Takahisa Zeze's From Siberia with Love: Applying Dignity and Memory to Video Production

Takahisa Zeze's From Siberia with Love: Applyin...

Directed by Takahisa Zeze, From Siberia with Love is based on the true story of Japanese prisoners of war detained in Siberian labor camps, or lagers, after World War II....

Takahisa Zeze's From Siberia with Love: Applyin...

Directed by Takahisa Zeze, From Siberia with Love is based on the true story of Japanese prisoners of war detained in Siberian labor camps, or lagers, after World War II....

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...