HAPIVERI Magazine

Kazuhiro Soda, an Innovator of Observational Cinema: A New Documentary Form Through His Ten Commandments

Kazuhiro Soda, an Innovator of Observational Ci...

The observational cinema established by Kazuhiro Soda is a method that fundamentally overturns conventional ideas about documentary film. His proposed Ten Commandments form its core. The most important element is...

Kazuhiro Soda, an Innovator of Observational Ci...

The observational cinema established by Kazuhiro Soda is a method that fundamentally overturns conventional ideas about documentary film. His proposed Ten Commandments form its core. The most important element is...

Exploring the Mind's Inner Landscape in Mental: The Reality of Psychiatric Care Captured by Kazuhiro Soda

Exploring the Mind's Inner Landscape in Mental:...

Released in 2008, Mental is a documentary set in a psychiatric clinic in Osaka that records the daily lives of people living with mental illness. Over two years of filming,...

Exploring the Mind's Inner Landscape in Mental:...

Released in 2008, Mental is a documentary set in a psychiatric clinic in Osaka that records the daily lives of people living with mental illness. Over two years of filming,...

Shunji Iwai's Portrayal of Youth: Bringing Grow...

Director Shunji Iwai's films delicately portray the emotional fluctuations unique to adolescence, the process of growing up, and the pain of loss. Taking time and memory as their themes, his...

Shunji Iwai's Portrayal of Youth: Bringing Grow...

Director Shunji Iwai's films delicately portray the emotional fluctuations unique to adolescence, the process of growing up, and the pain of loss. Taking time and memory as their themes, his...

Ishiro Honda's Special-Effects Expression: Applying Monster-Film Direction to Video Production

Ishiro Honda's Special-Effects Expression: Appl...

Born on May 7, 1911, the forty-fourth year of Meiji, into a wealthy family in Tokyo's Aoyama district, Ishiro Honda would become a director who left a major mark on...

Ishiro Honda's Special-Effects Expression: Appl...

Born on May 7, 1911, the forty-fourth year of Meiji, into a wealthy family in Tokyo's Aoyama district, Ishiro Honda would become a director who left a major mark on...

Isao Yukisada: Why Crying Out Love in the Center of the World Moved Japan to Tears

Isao Yukisada: Why Crying Out Love in the Cente...

What Is Crying Out Love in the Center of the World? Released in 2004, Crying Out Love in the Center of the World is a romantic film directed by Isao...

Isao Yukisada: Why Crying Out Love in the Cente...

What Is Crying Out Love in the Center of the World? Released in 2004, Crying Out Love in the Center of the World is a romantic film directed by Isao...

Shuji Terayama's Visual Expression: Bringing Experimentation into Video Planning

Shuji Terayama's Visual Expression: Bringing Ex...

Terayama adopted innovative approaches unconstrained by conventional filmmaking methods. Mixing professional actors and amateurs, filming spontaneously in the streets, and incorporating performance elements involving the audience, his methods expanded the...

Shuji Terayama's Visual Expression: Bringing Ex...

Terayama adopted innovative approaches unconstrained by conventional filmmaking methods. Mixing professional actors and amateurs, filming spontaneously in the streets, and incorporating performance elements involving the audience, his methods expanded the...