HAPIVERI Magazine
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?
Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Cond...
Masaki Kobayashi was one of postwar Japanese cinema's most committed seekers of conscience and ethics. He was a director who confronted war's inhumanity without evasion, inscribing it directly onto the...
Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Cond...
Masaki Kobayashi was one of postwar Japanese cinema's most committed seekers of conscience and ethics. He was a director who confronted war's inhumanity without evasion, inscribing it directly onto the...
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,...
The End of an Era Through Satire and Laughter: ...
Produced by Nikkatsu in 1957, A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era shines in Japanese film history as a signature work by Yuzo Kawashima. It is set at the end...
The End of an Era Through Satire and Laughter: ...
Produced by Nikkatsu in 1957, A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era shines in Japanese film history as a signature work by Yuzo Kawashima. It is set at the end...
Yuzo Kawashima's Early Life: The Path of an Unc...
Yuzo Kawashima was born on January 4, 1918, in the seventh year of the Taisho era, in Kyoto Prefecture. His father worked for the South Manchuria Railway, and he spent...
Yuzo Kawashima's Early Life: The Path of an Unc...
Yuzo Kawashima was born on January 4, 1918, in the seventh year of the Taisho era, in Kyoto Prefecture. His father worked for the South Manchuria Railway, and he spent...
Techniques That Reveal the Inner Fire: The Esse...
The defining characteristic of director Tomu Uchida’s visual expression is its remarkable fusion of rigorously unsentimental realism with surprisingly delicate poetry. Viewers of his films are first overwhelmed by their...
Techniques That Reveal the Inner Fire: The Esse...
The defining characteristic of director Tomu Uchida’s visual expression is its remarkable fusion of rigorously unsentimental realism with surprisingly delicate poetry. Viewers of his films are first overwhelmed by their...