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Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata: ...
Released in 2008, Tokyo Sonata vividly portrays the contemporary Japanese family through the eyes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror. Its protagonists, the Sasaki family, appear to...
Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata: ...
Released in 2008, Tokyo Sonata vividly portrays the contemporary Japanese family through the eyes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror. Its protagonists, the Sasaki family, appear to...
Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure: Applying...
Released in 1997, Cure is a provocative work by Kiyoshi Kurosawa that shocked Japanese cinema. It unfolds from the perspective of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho), who investigates a series of...
Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure: Applying...
Released in 1997, Cure is a provocative work by Kiyoshi Kurosawa that shocked Japanese cinema. It unfolds from the perspective of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho), who investigates a series of...
Learning from Nobuhiro Yamashita's Over the Fen...
Released in 2016, Over the Fence is a human drama directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and based on Yasushi Sato's novel of the same name. It attracted attention as another adaptation...
Learning from Nobuhiro Yamashita's Over the Fen...
Released in 2016, Over the Fence is a human drama directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and based on Yasushi Sato's novel of the same name. It attracted attention as another adaptation...
Women in Sion Sono's Films: Applying Perspectiv...
Sion Sono's films feature many women with strong personalities. Rather than simply heroines or romantic interests, they are portrayed as people trying to establish themselves while suffering social oppression or...
Women in Sion Sono's Films: Applying Perspectiv...
Sion Sono's films feature many women with strong personalities. Rather than simply heroines or romantic interests, they are portrayed as people trying to establish themselves while suffering social oppression or...
Sion Sono's Challenge: Distortions of Religion ...
Released in 2008, Love Exposure was highly acclaimed in Japan and abroad as one of Sion Sono's signature films. Despite its four-hour length, its overwhelming pace and shocking developments left...
Sion Sono's Challenge: Distortions of Religion ...
Released in 2008, Love Exposure was highly acclaimed in Japan and abroad as one of Sion Sono's signature films. Despite its four-hour length, its overwhelming pace and shocking developments left...
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,...