HAPIVERI Magazine

Isao Takahata's Everyday Portrayals: Applying Lived Detail and Humor to Educational Videos

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...

The Structure of Hideyuki Hirayama’s Begging for Love: Applying Stories That Confront the Past to Video Production

The Structure of Hideyuki Hirayama’s Begging fo...

Released in 1998, Begging for Love is a moving human drama that moves between the past and present of a woman abused by her mother in childhood. Based on Harumi...

The Structure of Hideyuki Hirayama’s Begging fo...

Released in 1998, Begging for Love is a moving human drama that moves between the past and present of a woman abused by her mother in childhood. Based on Harumi...

Hideyuki Hirayama’s Direction in School Ghost Stories: Applying Fantasy and Fear to Video Production

Hideyuki Hirayama’s Direction in School Ghost S...

Released in 1995, School Ghost Stories is regarded as a landmark of Japanese horror films for children. It captivated many viewers by depicting supernatural incidents at an elementary school alongside...

Hideyuki Hirayama’s Direction in School Ghost S...

Released in 1995, School Ghost Stories is regarded as a landmark of Japanese horror films for children. It captivated many viewers by depicting supernatural incidents at an elementary school alongside...

Silence and Abacus and Sword: History and Ethics as Depicted by Masahiro Shinoda

Silence and Abacus and Sword: History and Ethic...

Masahiro Shinoda has created distinctive works in Japanese cinema that combine tradition and innovation. His historical films in particular go beyond period drama to deeply depict changes in human ethics...

Silence and Abacus and Sword: History and Ethic...

Masahiro Shinoda has created distinctive works in Japanese cinema that combine tradition and innovation. His historical films in particular go beyond period drama to deeply depict changes in human ethics...

I Are You, You Am Me: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Vivid Memories of Youth

I Are You, You Am Me: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Vivid...

Released in 1982, I Are You, You Am Me (Tenkosei) is known as the first film in director Nobuhiko Obayashi's Onomichi Trilogy. Set in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, it depicts the...

I Are You, You Am Me: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Vivid...

Released in 1982, I Are You, You Am Me (Tenkosei) is known as the first film in director Nobuhiko Obayashi's Onomichi Trilogy. Set in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, it depicts the...

A Magician of Images: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Journey and Passion for Cinema

A Magician of Images: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Journ...

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1938. Growing up among historic streets and the beautiful scenery of the Seto Inland Sea, he developed a strong interest...

A Magician of Images: Nobuhiko Obayashi's Journ...

Director Nobuhiko Obayashi was born in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1938. Growing up among historic streets and the beautiful scenery of the Seto Inland Sea, he developed a strong interest...