HAPIVERI Magazine
Yoichi Takabayashi’s Visual Expression and Expe...
Japanese cinema is celebrated worldwide for Akira Kurosawa’s period films and Yasujiro Ozu’s tranquil human dramas, but it also includes experimental filmmakers who pursued new visual possibilities. Among them, Yoichi...
Yoichi Takabayashi’s Visual Expression and Expe...
Japanese cinema is celebrated worldwide for Akira Kurosawa’s period films and Yasujiro Ozu’s tranquil human dramas, but it also includes experimental filmmakers who pursued new visual possibilities. Among them, Yoichi...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Film Philosophy: Applying Q...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi specializes in portraying human emotions and relationships through dialogue. Conversations between his characters often continue at length, carefully revealing their inner lives. In Happy Hour and Drive My...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Film Philosophy: Applying Q...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi specializes in portraying human emotions and relationships through dialogue. Conversations between his characters often continue at length, carefully revealing their inner lives. In Happy Hour and Drive My...
Learning from Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not...
Evil Does Not Exist is a film in which director Ryusuke Hamaguchi focuses on the relationship between nature and human society. Set in a small village, the story depicts how...
Learning from Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not...
Evil Does Not Exist is a film in which director Ryusuke Hamaguchi focuses on the relationship between nature and human society. Set in a small village, the story depicts how...
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...
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...
A Revolutionary of the Moving Image: Kazuhiko H...
Kazuhiko Hasegawa was born in Tokyo in 1946, just after the war. His childhood unfolded in a distinctive environment where an influx of American culture collided intensely with Japanese traditions....
A Revolutionary of the Moving Image: Kazuhiko H...
Kazuhiko Hasegawa was born in Tokyo in 1946, just after the war. His childhood unfolded in a distinctive environment where an influx of American culture collided intensely with Japanese traditions....