Part science-fiction, part teenage romance, “Andromedia” sure has some surprises for its audience. Takashi Miike's most successful work up to that...
Author - Alexander Knoth
Based in Vienna.
Focussed on Japan.
Master's degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies.
I write to get rid of rose-colored spectacles and to introduce unknown facets of Asian cinema.
You may think that “Captain Marvel” (2019) is an important contemporary film for females on screen, you may assume that Jacque Rivette pushed the...
Director Wei Zhang enters a new territory with “The Rib” as for the first time, a big budget Chinese feature film tackles the topic of transgender...
“No No Sleep” is another entry in Tsai Ming-liang's “Walker”-series, in which he portrays a monk walking slowly and silent through...
Arthouse director Tsai Ming-liang sits down with Nogami Teruyo, who used to be a screenwriter for Akira Kurosawa for nearly half a century, to talk about...
I am a very organized person, who likes to work in a structured way. When it comes to analyzing movies, it is the same for me. The filmography of Yoshihige (or...
“The only thing that changed in 5 years is the radiation level”, says Kazuhiko Yamauchi, the hero of “Campaign 2”, after reuniting with...
The city of Yamaguchi located in the southern part of Japan, between Hiroshima and Fukuoka, is the research area of a student group looking for DNA samples of...
Akiyoshi Koba's martial arts dance frenzy “Nunchaku and Soul” aims at the quiet undertones. Nunchaku and Soul is screening at Osaka...
“Tiptoe” is a short film about two siblings left on their own. Her mother left the house early and her father seem to neglect the family at all...