HAPIVERI Magazine
Toru Takemitsu's Major Film Scores: From Woman ...
Toru Takemitsu's career as a film composer began in earnest with Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit in 1956. Based on Shintaro Ishihara's novel, this Nikkatsu youth film portrays the decadence of...
Toru Takemitsu's Major Film Scores: From Woman ...
Toru Takemitsu's career as a film composer began in earnest with Ko Nakahira's Crazed Fruit in 1956. Based on Shintaro Ishihara's novel, this Nikkatsu youth film portrays the decadence of...
Director Shusuke Kaneko's Visual Language: Inno...
Director Shusuke Kaneko is known in Japanese cinema as an innovator in special-effects filmmaking. The Heisei Gamera series of the 1990s overturned established ideas about the genre and opened new...
Director Shusuke Kaneko's Visual Language: Inno...
Director Shusuke Kaneko is known in Japanese cinema as an innovator in special-effects filmmaking. The Heisei Gamera series of the 1990s overturned established ideas about the genre and opened new...
Director Susumu Hani: The Breadth of His Creati...
Susumu Hani is an exceptionally distinctive filmmaker in Japanese cinema, moving freely between documentary, fiction, educational films, and children’s films. Born in 1928, he joined Iwanami Productions and emerged as...
Director Susumu Hani: The Breadth of His Creati...
Susumu Hani is an exceptionally distinctive filmmaker in Japanese cinema, moving freely between documentary, fiction, educational films, and children’s films. Born in 1928, he joined Iwanami Productions and emerged as...
Isao Takahata's Everyday Portrayals: Applying L...
Animation may bring grand adventures or fantasy to mind. Yet Isao Takahata's films contain no magic or supernatural powers. Instead, they carefully depict ordinary daily life, revealing its small joys...
Isao Takahata's Everyday Portrayals: Applying L...
Animation may bring grand adventures or fantasy to mind. Yet Isao Takahata's films contain no magic or supernatural powers. Instead, they carefully depict ordinary daily life, revealing its small joys...
Learning from Satsuo Yamamoto’s Major Films: Ap...
Shinobi no Mono at Daiei, starring Raizo Ichikawa, was a major hit as the first film to portray ninja realistically. Subsequent films including A Scarred Life, The Witness Chair, and...
Learning from Satsuo Yamamoto’s Major Films: Ap...
Shinobi no Mono at Daiei, starring Raizo Ichikawa, was a major hit as the first film to portray ninja realistically. Subsequent films including A Scarred Life, The Witness Chair, and...