HAPIVERI Magazine

Isao Takahata's Animation Revolution: Applying Movement and Everyday Depiction to Video Production

Isao Takahata's Animation Revolution: Applying ...

Isao Takahata was one of the great directors who exerted an enormous influence on Japanese animation. Together with Hayao Miyazaki, he helped sustain Studio Ghibli and brought numerous masterpieces into...

Isao Takahata's Animation Revolution: Applying ...

Isao Takahata was one of the great directors who exerted an enormous influence on Japanese animation. Together with Hayao Miyazaki, he helped sustain Studio Ghibli and brought numerous masterpieces into...

It's Tough Being a Man and Japanese Identity: Why Does Tora-san Remain Beloved?

It's Tough Being a Man and Japanese Identity: W...

It's Tough Being a Man is the longest film series in Japanese cinema history, with forty-eight installments produced over twenty-six years from its first release in 1969 through 1995. Its...

It's Tough Being a Man and Japanese Identity: W...

It's Tough Being a Man is the longest film series in Japanese cinema history, with forty-eight installments produced over twenty-six years from its first release in 1969 through 1995. Its...

Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata: Applying Family Anxiety to Video Production

Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata: ...

Released in 2008, Tokyo Sonata vividly portrays the contemporary Japanese family through the eyes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror. Its protagonists, the Sasaki family, appear to...

Learning from Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata: ...

Released in 2008, Tokyo Sonata vividly portrays the contemporary Japanese family through the eyes of Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror. Its protagonists, the Sasaki family, appear to...

Learning from Nobuhiro Yamashita's Over the Fence: Using Loss and Renewal in Video Production

Learning from Nobuhiro Yamashita's Over the Fen...

Released in 2016, Over the Fence is a human drama directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and based on Yasushi Sato's novel of the same name. It attracted attention as another adaptation...

Learning from Nobuhiro Yamashita's Over the Fen...

Released in 2016, Over the Fence is a human drama directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita and based on Yasushi Sato's novel of the same name. It attracted attention as another adaptation...

The Journey of Director Minoru Murata: Applying Japanese Film Direction to Video Production

The Journey of Director Minoru Murata: Applying...

Director Murata began making a name for himself in independent cinema in the early 1990s. His early film Eternal Promise (1992) received high praise at festivals in Japan and abroad,...

The Journey of Director Minoru Murata: Applying...

Director Murata began making a name for himself in independent cinema in the early 1990s. His early film Eternal Promise (1992) received high praise at festivals in Japan and abroad,...