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A Visual Language Crossing Borders: Internation...
Kiju Yoshida occupies a unique place in Japanese film history. Alongside Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, he is essential to any discussion of the 1960s Japanese New Wave, and his...
A Visual Language Crossing Borders: Internation...
Kiju Yoshida occupies a unique place in Japanese film history. Alongside Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, he is essential to any discussion of the 1960s Japanese New Wave, and his...
Lessons from Three Yoshishige Yoshida Masterpie...
“Akitsu Springs” (1962) marked a turning point in Yoshishige Yoshida’s filmography. Made late in his years at Shochiku, this literary romance is celebrated as a tragic love story between Shinko,...
Lessons from Three Yoshishige Yoshida Masterpie...
“Akitsu Springs” (1962) marked a turning point in Yoshishige Yoshida’s filmography. Made late in his years at Shochiku, this literary romance is celebrated as a tragic love story between Shinko,...
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: 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 Visual Direction: Applying Tok...
In Japanese cinema, Shusuke Kaneko is known as an innovator of tokusatsu. The 1990s Heisei Gamera trilogy in particular overturned conventional ideas about effects films and opened new possibilities in...
Shusuke Kaneko’s Visual Direction: Applying Tok...
In Japanese cinema, Shusuke Kaneko is known as an innovator of tokusatsu. The 1990s Heisei Gamera trilogy in particular overturned conventional ideas about effects films and opened new possibilities in...
Learning Video Direction from Shusuke Kaneko: A...
A Driving Force of the J-Horror Boom: The Ju-On Series Opened New Forms of Fear Explore the path that established new expressions of fear in horror and created the cultural...
Learning Video Direction from Shusuke Kaneko: A...
A Driving Force of the J-Horror Boom: The Ju-On Series Opened New Forms of Fear Explore the path that established new expressions of fear in horror and created the cultural...