HAPIVERI Magazine

Life's Transience in Isao Takahata's Films: Bringing Memory and Emotion into Video Production

Life's Transience in Isao Takahata's Films: Bri...

Animation is often thought to depict dreams and adventure, but Isao Takahata's films explore deep themes that attend to life's transience and human destiny.

Life's Transience in Isao Takahata's Films: Bri...

Animation is often thought to depict dreams and adventure, but Isao Takahata's films explore deep themes that attend to life's transience and human destiny.

Isao Takahata's Realism: Applying Animation's Possibilities to Video Production

Isao Takahata's Realism: Applying Animation's P...

Animation may bring spectacular action and fantastical worlds to mind. Yet a different quality runs throughout director Isao Takahata's work: realism.

Isao Takahata's Realism: Applying Animation's P...

Animation may bring spectacular action and fantastical worlds to mind. Yet a different quality runs throughout director Isao Takahata's work: realism.

Kohei Oguri's Film Expression: Applying Innovation in Japanese Cinema to Video Production

Kohei Oguri's Film Expression: Applying Innovat...

Muddy River, released in 1981, decisively established Oguri's international reputation. Based on Teru Miyamoto's novel, this psychological drama depicts complex family relationships and a boy's growth in a working-class district...

Kohei Oguri's Film Expression: Applying Innovat...

Muddy River, released in 1981, decisively established Oguri's international reputation. Based on Teru Miyamoto's novel, this psychological drama depicts complex family relationships and a boy's growth in a working-class district...