HAPIVERI Magazine

Learning from Drive My Car: Using Loss and Dialogue in Video Production

Learning from Drive My Car: Using Loss and Dial...

Drive My Car is based on the story of the same name in Haruki Murakami's collection Men Without Women. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi offers his own interpretation of the source's introspective...

Learning from Drive My Car: Using Loss and Dial...

Drive My Car is based on the story of the same name in Haruki Murakami's collection Men Without Women. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi offers his own interpretation of the source's introspective...

The Origins of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema: Applying Conversation and Silence to Video Production

The Origins of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema: Appl...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978. Interested in stories and visual arts from an early age, he grew up surrounded by books and films. He was particularly...

The Origins of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema: Appl...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978. Interested in stories and visual arts from an early age, he grew up surrounded by books and films. He was particularly...

Nagisa Oshima's Film Aesthetics: Exploring Expression Beyond Boundaries

Nagisa Oshima's Film Aesthetics: Exploring Expr...

Nagisa Oshima saw cinema not merely as entertainment but as a means of confronting society. Many of his films contain sharp criticism of social problems and power structures in postwar...

Nagisa Oshima's Film Aesthetics: Exploring Expr...

Nagisa Oshima saw cinema not merely as entertainment but as a means of confronting society. Many of his films contain sharp criticism of social problems and power structures in postwar...

Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Applying Cross-Cultural Expression to Video Production

Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: ...

Released in 1983, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is one of Nagisa Oshima's signature films, distinguished by its international cast and original music. The unusual combination of David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto,...

Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: ...

Released in 1983, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is one of Nagisa Oshima's signature films, distinguished by its international cast and original music. The unusual combination of David Bowie, Ryuichi Sakamoto,...

Lessons from Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Youth Killer: Applying Portrayals of Conflict to Video Production

Lessons from Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Youth Kill...

Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Youth Killer was released in 1976, an era marking the end of Japan's rapid economic growth. Based on a real case of gruesome murders committed by a...

Lessons from Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Youth Kill...

Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Youth Killer was released in 1976, an era marking the end of Japan's rapid economic growth. Based on a real case of gruesome murders committed by a...

Lessons from Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who Stole the Sun: Applying Tension to Video Concepts

Lessons from Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who St...

Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who Stole the Sun shocked Japanese cinema in 1979. Its startling premise, in which nuclear power plant engineer Junichi Yaginuma steals uranium-235 and builds a homemade...

Lessons from Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who St...

Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who Stole the Sun shocked Japanese cinema in 1979. Its startling premise, in which nuclear power plant engineer Junichi Yaginuma steals uranium-235 and builds a homemade...