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Kiju Yoshida’s Visual Aesthetics: Applying Anti-Melodramatic Composition and Editing to Video Production

Kiju Yoshida’s Visual Aesthetics: Applying Anti...

Above all, master Japanese filmmaker Kiju Yoshida’s work is defined by an approach called “anti-melodrama.” When emotionally directed “weepers” were commercially successful in Shochiku’s late-1950s and 1960s golden age of...

Kiju Yoshida’s Visual Aesthetics: Applying Anti...

Above all, master Japanese filmmaker Kiju Yoshida’s work is defined by an approach called “anti-melodrama.” When emotionally directed “weepers” were commercially successful in Shochiku’s late-1950s and 1960s golden age of...

Yoshishige Yoshida's Visual Expression: Applying Composition and Editing to Brand Video

Yoshishige Yoshida's Visual Expression: Applyin...

Born on February 16, 1933, in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Yoshishige Yoshida left a deep mark as an innovator in Japanese film history. Familiar with French cinema from childhood, he...

Yoshishige Yoshida's Visual Expression: Applyin...

Born on February 16, 1933, in Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture, Yoshishige Yoshida left a deep mark as an innovator in Japanese film history. Familiar with French cinema from childhood, he...

Shusuke Kaneko's Horror Direction: Applying Composition and Lighting to Video Production

Shusuke Kaneko's Horror Direction: Applying Com...

In the early twenty-first century, Japanese horror created a worldwide boom. One central presence was the 'Ju-On' series by director Shusuke Kaneko. Known as an innovator in tokusatsu cinema, Kaneko...

Shusuke Kaneko's Horror Direction: Applying Com...

In the early twenty-first century, Japanese horror created a worldwide boom. One central presence was the 'Ju-On' series by director Shusuke Kaneko. Known as an innovator in tokusatsu cinema, Kaneko...

Lessons in Visual Direction from Koichi Saito: Bringing Emotion and a Sense of Journey to Video Production

Lessons in Visual Direction from Koichi Saito: ...

In 1966, Lee Man-hee’s “Late Autumn” was released in South Korea. The film follows a woman imprisoned as a political offender and a man on the run for murder who...

Lessons in Visual Direction from Koichi Saito: ...

In 1966, Lee Man-hee’s “Late Autumn” was released in South Korea. The film follows a woman imprisoned as a political offender and a man on the run for murder who...

Japan's Landscapes and Memories of Youth: Koichi Saito's “Landscape Trilogy” and the Archetypal Japan of the 1970s

Japan's Landscapes and Memories of Youth: Koich...

Japan in the early 1970s was approaching the end of its period of rapid economic growth. The oil crisis of 1973 began to break the myth of uninterrupted expansion, and...

Japan's Landscapes and Memories of Youth: Koich...

Japan in the early 1970s was approaching the end of its period of rapid economic growth. The oil crisis of 1973 began to break the myth of uninterrupted expansion, and...

From Still Photographer to Visual Poet: The New Horizon Kōichi Saitō Opened in Japanese Cinema

From Still Photographer to Visual Poet: The New...

Born in Hachiōji, Tokyo Prefecture, on February 3, 1929, Kōichi Saitō was strongly interested in photographic expression from childhood. After leaving Rikkyo University, he studied the foundations of photography thoroughly...

From Still Photographer to Visual Poet: The New...

Born in Hachiōji, Tokyo Prefecture, on February 3, 1929, Kōichi Saitō was strongly interested in photographic expression from childhood. After leaving Rikkyo University, he studied the foundations of photography thoroughly...