HAPIVERI Magazine

Shunji Iwai's Visual Poetry: Applying Light and Music to Corporate Videos

Shunji Iwai's Visual Poetry: Applying Light and...

Director Shunji Iwai is a leading Japanese filmmaker known as a visual poet for his distinctive visual beauty and emotional expression. His films delicately portray youth, romance, and people's inner...

Shunji Iwai's Visual Poetry: Applying Light and...

Director Shunji Iwai is a leading Japanese filmmaker known as a visual poet for his distinctive visual beauty and emotional expression. His films delicately portray youth, romance, and people's inner...

Master Director Ishiro Honda's Techniques: An Innovative Approach to Special-Effects Cinema

Master Director Ishiro Honda's Techniques: An I...

Above all, Ishiro Honda's directing methods were characterized by a strong commitment to realism. Even in special-effects films, he studied real animals' movements and reflected them in the effects to...

Master Director Ishiro Honda's Techniques: An I...

Above all, Ishiro Honda's directing methods were characterized by a strong commitment to realism. Even in special-effects films, he studied real animals' movements and reflected them in the effects to...

Ishiro Honda's Special-Effects Expression: Applying Monster-Film Direction to Video Production

Ishiro Honda's Special-Effects Expression: Appl...

Born on May 7, 1911, the forty-fourth year of Meiji, into a wealthy family in Tokyo's Aoyama district, Ishiro Honda would become a director who left a major mark on...

Ishiro Honda's Special-Effects Expression: Appl...

Born on May 7, 1911, the forty-fourth year of Meiji, into a wealthy family in Tokyo's Aoyama district, Ishiro Honda would become a director who left a major mark on...

Naoko Ogigami's Later Works: Using Humor and Stillness in Corporate Videos

Naoko Ogigami's Later Works: Using Humor and St...

Ogigami's later films deepen the stillness and everyday portrayals developed in her early work, evolving through the addition of distinctive humor. Representative works such as Glasses and Rent-a-Cat attract attention...

Naoko Ogigami's Later Works: Using Humor and St...

Ogigami's later films deepen the stillness and everyday portrayals developed in her early work, evolving through the addition of distinctive humor. Representative works such as Glasses and Rent-a-Cat attract attention...

A Girl's Changing Heart and Journey Toward Adulthood in Shinji Somai's Moving

A Girl's Changing Heart and Journey Toward Adul...

Released in 1993, Shinji Somai's Moving is a deeply affecting film about a girl's coming of age. From the perspective of a girl forced to move because of her parents'...

A Girl's Changing Heart and Journey Toward Adul...

Released in 1993, Shinji Somai's Moving is a deeply affecting film about a girl's coming of age. From the perspective of a girl forced to move because of her parents'...

Exploring the Appeal of Shinji Somai's Typhoon Club, Where Adolescent Conflicts Intertwine

Exploring the Appeal of Shinji Somai's Typhoon ...

Released in 1985, Shinji Somai's Typhoon Club is loved by many film fans as a landmark of coming-of-age cinema. Set in a school closed as a typhoon approaches, the film...

Exploring the Appeal of Shinji Somai's Typhoon ...

Released in 1985, Shinji Somai's Typhoon Club is loved by many film fans as a landmark of coming-of-age cinema. Set in a school closed as a typhoon approaches, the film...