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Asian Movie Pulse Talks #8: Toshiya Fujita’s Lady Snowblood

March 12, 2021
Panos Kotzathanasis

In the eighth episode of AMP Talks, Panos Kotzathanasis, Tom Wilmot and Rouven Linnarz discuss

1. Tarantino’s role in reintroducing the film and Japanese exploitation of the 60s and 70s

2. The artfulness of Lady Snowblood and of the whole, misunderstood era

3. The Meiji era and its inequalities, the Westernization of Japan and the parallels with the 70s

4. The ballroom scene

5.The role of women and the way the protagonists in the film take their fate in their hands

6. The concept of revenge

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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