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Isao Takahata's Realism: Applying Animation's Possibilities to Video Production

Isao Takahata's Realism: Applying Animation's P...

Animation may bring spectacular action and fantastical worlds to mind. Yet a different quality runs throughout director Isao Takahata's work: realism.

Isao Takahata's Realism: Applying Animation's P...

Animation may bring spectacular action and fantastical worlds to mind. Yet a different quality runs throughout director Isao Takahata's work: realism.

An Overview of Kohei Oguri's Major Works: His Journey and Evolution

An Overview of Kohei Oguri's Major Works: His J...

Muddy River (1981) and For Kayako (1984) decisively established Oguri's international reputation. Adapting Teru Miyamoto's work, Muddy River is a psychological drama set in a working-class district of Osaka, depicting...

An Overview of Kohei Oguri's Major Works: His J...

Muddy River (1981) and For Kayako (1984) decisively established Oguri's international reputation. Adapting Teru Miyamoto's work, Muddy River is a psychological drama set in a working-class district of Osaka, depicting...

Kohei Oguri and Japanese Film Tradition: Bringing Light and Inheritance into Video Production

Kohei Oguri and Japanese Film Tradition: Bringi...

Released in 2015, FOUJITA is an ambitious work in which Oguri adopted an international perspective. Through Japanese painter Tsuguharu Foujita's life, it explores artistic identity and the essence of creation....

Kohei Oguri and Japanese Film Tradition: Bringi...

Released in 2015, FOUJITA is an ambitious work in which Oguri adopted an international perspective. Through Japanese painter Tsuguharu Foujita's life, it explores artistic identity and the essence of creation....

Kohei Oguri's Visual Expression: Applying Light and Shadow to Video Production

Kohei Oguri's Visual Expression: Applying Light...

Many of Oguri's films adapt literary works, and his choices reflect his own literary sensibility. Through adaptations of important Japanese writers, including Yukio Mishima's The Sting of Death (1990), Teru...

Kohei Oguri's Visual Expression: Applying Light...

Many of Oguri's films adapt literary works, and his choices reflect his own literary sensibility. Through adaptations of important Japanese writers, including Yukio Mishima's The Sting of Death (1990), Teru...

Kohei Oguri's Film Expression: Applying Innovation in Japanese Cinema to Video Production

Kohei Oguri's Film Expression: Applying Innovat...

Muddy River, released in 1981, decisively established Oguri's international reputation. Based on Teru Miyamoto's novel, this psychological drama depicts complex family relationships and a boy's growth in a working-class district...

Kohei Oguri's Film Expression: Applying Innovat...

Muddy River, released in 1981, decisively established Oguri's international reputation. Based on Teru Miyamoto's novel, this psychological drama depicts complex family relationships and a boy's growth in a working-class district...

The Structure of Hideyuki Hirayama’s Begging for Love: Applying Stories That Confront the Past to Video Production

The Structure of Hideyuki Hirayama’s Begging fo...

Released in 1998, Begging for Love is a moving human drama that moves between the past and present of a woman abused by her mother in childhood. Based on Harumi...

The Structure of Hideyuki Hirayama’s Begging fo...

Released in 1998, Begging for Love is a moving human drama that moves between the past and present of a woman abused by her mother in childhood. Based on Harumi...