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Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Brin...
Seppuku was described as the fulfillment of a samurai's deepest wish. But were its aesthetics and honor truly sincere?
Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri: Brin...
Seppuku was described as the fulfillment of a samurai's deepest wish. But were its aesthetics and honor truly sincere?
Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Cond...
Masaki Kobayashi was one of postwar Japanese cinema's most committed seekers of conscience and ethics. He was a director who confronted war's inhumanity without evasion, inscribing it directly onto the...
Learning from Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Cond...
Masaki Kobayashi was one of postwar Japanese cinema's most committed seekers of conscience and ethics. He was a director who confronted war's inhumanity without evasion, inscribing it directly onto the...
Yuzo Kawashima's Early Life: The Path of an Unc...
Yuzo Kawashima was born on January 4, 1918, in the seventh year of the Taisho era, in Kyoto Prefecture. His father worked for the South Manchuria Railway, and he spent...
Yuzo Kawashima's Early Life: The Path of an Unc...
Yuzo Kawashima was born on January 4, 1918, in the seventh year of the Taisho era, in Kyoto Prefecture. His father worked for the South Manchuria Railway, and he spent...
Kazuya Shiraishi's Visual Expression: Applying ...
Kazuya Shiraishi is a film director born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, in 1974. His career began with independent filmmaking. He became interested in making films while at university and, after graduating...
Kazuya Shiraishi's Visual Expression: Applying ...
Kazuya Shiraishi is a film director born in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, in 1974. His career began with independent filmmaking. He became interested in making films while at university and, after graduating...
Society's Margins and the World of Twisted Just...
Twisted Justice, directed in 2016 by Kazuya Shiraishi, a native of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, is modeled on a real-life organized fraud group. Starring Go Ayano, the film focuses on the deceivers,...
Society's Margins and the World of Twisted Just...
Twisted Justice, directed in 2016 by Kazuya Shiraishi, a native of Asahikawa, Hokkaido, is modeled on a real-life organized fraud group. Starring Go Ayano, the film focuses on the deceivers,...
Mamoru Hosoda's Visual Expression: Applying Col...
Hosoda's work characteristically evokes powerful emotions through expansive spaces and character movement. The intricate structure of the Jinnouchi family's old Japanese home and the family's movements in Summer Wars, the...
Mamoru Hosoda's Visual Expression: Applying Col...
Hosoda's work characteristically evokes powerful emotions through expansive spaces and character movement. The intricate structure of the Jinnouchi family's old Japanese home and the family's movements in Summer Wars, the...