Japan Film Festival Plus — a website run by the Japan Foundation aiming to spread Japanese films overseas — reveals their first article this month with two stars in Asian Cinema. Hirokazu Kore-eda, master of slow cinema (and the 2018 Palme d'Or-winning film “Shoplifters”) talks to rising star Yoon Dan-bi — a promising Busan Film Festival and IFFR favorite for her debut feature, “Moving On”. In this article, they talk about their own works as well as the state of films in Japan and South Korea. You can find the full article here.
In this month's second article, Taiwan-born illustrator Shiho So creates colorful reproductions of famous romantic scenes from Japanese films selected by Haochen Xu, a movie writer from Shanghai, taking you into the world of Japanese romance films. Read the full feature here.
