HAPIVERI Magazine

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...

Masaki Kobayashi: Ethics, the Power of Silence, and His Voiceless Resisters

Masaki Kobayashi: Ethics, the Power of Silence,...

Masaki Kobayashi's works feature many such voiceless resisters. Within oppressive societies and unreasonable institutions, they rebel without raising their voices, calmly or silently, seeking to uphold their own ethics.

Masaki Kobayashi: Ethics, the Power of Silence,...

Masaki Kobayashi's works feature many such voiceless resisters. Within oppressive societies and unreasonable institutions, they rebel without raising their voices, calmly or silently, seeking to uphold their own ethics.

The Color Beauty of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan: Applying the Direction of Fear to Video Production

The Color Beauty of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan:...

What comes to mind when you hear the words horror film? Sudden screams, dark ruins, splashes of blood? There is a film that perfects a fear within stillness, distinct from...

The Color Beauty of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan:...

What comes to mind when you hear the words horror film? Sudden screams, dark ruins, splashes of blood? There is a film that perfects a fear within stillness, distinct from...

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?

The Joys and Sorrows of a Bustling District: Yuzo Kawashima's Suzaki Paradise: Red Light

The Joys and Sorrows of a Bustling District: Yu...

Produced at Nikkatsu in 1956, Suzaki Paradise: Red Light is highly regarded as one of director Yuzo Kawashima's signature works. Set in Tokyo's Suzaki pleasure quarter shortly after the war,...

The Joys and Sorrows of a Bustling District: Yu...

Produced at Nikkatsu in 1956, Suzaki Paradise: Red Light is highly regarded as one of director Yuzo Kawashima's signature works. Set in Tokyo's Suzaki pleasure quarter shortly after the war,...