HAPIVERI Magazine
A Pioneer of Everyday-Life Cinema: Yasujiro Shi...
In Japanese film history, the term shoshimin eiga, or lower-middle-class everyday-life cinema, is an important marker of a particular time and place.
A Pioneer of Everyday-Life Cinema: Yasujiro Shi...
In Japanese film history, the term shoshimin eiga, or lower-middle-class everyday-life cinema, is an important marker of a particular time and place.
Yasujiro Shimazu's Realist Direction: Applying ...
Yasujiro Shimazu, a master who left a lasting mark on Japanese film history, was born on June 3, 1897, into the family of a seafood merchant in Kanda, Tokyo. His...
Yasujiro Shimazu's Realist Direction: Applying ...
Yasujiro Shimazu, a master who left a lasting mark on Japanese film history, was born on June 3, 1897, into the family of a seafood merchant in Kanda, Tokyo. His...
Reassessing Ko Nakahira's Films: The Aesthetics...
Ko Nakahira (1926–1978) was known for inventive visual techniques and stylish direction, maintaining such a visually focused approach that he was nicknamed the man of technique. Yet his preference for...
Reassessing Ko Nakahira's Films: The Aesthetics...
Ko Nakahira (1926–1978) was known for inventive visual techniques and stylish direction, maintaining such a visually focused approach that he was nicknamed the man of technique. Yet his preference for...
Director Susumu Hani: The Challenge of Fiction ...
Susumu Hani is a pioneering filmmaker who brought an innovative perspective to Japanese cinema. Born in 1928, he began studying film while attending the University of Tokyo and joined Iwanami...
Director Susumu Hani: The Challenge of Fiction ...
Susumu Hani is a pioneering filmmaker who brought an innovative perspective to Japanese cinema. Born in 1928, he began studying film while attending the University of Tokyo and joined Iwanami...
Learning from Kihachi Okamoto's Blue Christmas:...
Blue Christmas is a 1978 science-fiction film directed by Kihachi Okamoto from So Kuramoto's original screenplay UFO Blue Christmas. Made in the year Star Wars opened in Japan, it is...
Learning from Kihachi Okamoto's Blue Christmas:...
Blue Christmas is a 1978 science-fiction film directed by Kihachi Okamoto from So Kuramoto's original screenplay UFO Blue Christmas. Made in the year Star Wars opened in Japan, it is...
Lessons from Tadashi Imai's Tower of the Lilies...
Released by director Tadashi Imai in 1953, Tower of the Lilies possesses an especially powerful "magnetic field of memory" in Japanese film history. Based on the true story of the...
Lessons from Tadashi Imai's Tower of the Lilies...
Released by director Tadashi Imai in 1953, Tower of the Lilies possesses an especially powerful "magnetic field of memory" in Japanese film history. Based on the true story of the...