HAPIVERI Magazine

The Color Beauty of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan: Applying the Direction of Fear to Video Production

The Color Beauty of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan:...

What comes to mind when you hear the words horror film? Sudden screams, dark ruins, splashes of blood? There is a film that perfects a fear within stillness, distinct from...

The Color Beauty of Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan:...

What comes to mind when you hear the words horror film? Sudden screams, dark ruins, splashes of blood? There is a film that perfects a fear within stillness, distinct from...

Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Bringing Composition and Social Engagement into Video Production

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 Condition: Bringing Questions of Peace into Video Production

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...

A Magician Weaving a Distinctive Cinematic World: Yuzo Kawashima's Visual Expression

A Magician Weaving a Distinctive Cinematic Worl...

One director stood out with a distinctive presence in Japanese cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. His attention was always directed toward ordinary people's daily lives, and he excelled at...

A Magician Weaving a Distinctive Cinematic Worl...

One director stood out with a distinctive presence in Japanese cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. His attention was always directed toward ordinary people's daily lives, and he excelled at...

The Joys and Sorrows of a Bustling District: Yuzo Kawashima's Suzaki Paradise: Red Light

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: The Appeal of Yuzo Kawashima's A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

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...