Based on personal experiences of the director himself, “F Is For Future” is a little one-hour dream about loss, grief, and a hidden porn collection. The coming...
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.
“A Sun” is another high-quality production of Taiwanese Studio Mandarin Vision (“The Great Buddha+” 2017). The two and a half-hour long crime drama directed by...
As the eyes of the world turned away from the Olympic Summer Games 1964 in Tokyo, empty stadiums remained and little attention was given to the second...
Banmei Takahashi started out in the 70s as a scriptwriter for the pinku eiga (soft-porn) pioneer Koji Wakamatsu, until he founded his own production company...
“Summer Knight” is the first feature film by You Xing and Winner of the Asian Future Best Film Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019. It is also...
“The Burmese Harp” (1956), “Fires on the Plain” (1959), “An Actor's Revenge” (1963). Those are only a few of the internationally critically acclaimed feature...
In 1973, Osamu Dezaki (“Space Adventure Cobra” 1982, “Golgo 13” 1983) took the zero-to-hero sports shojo written by Sumika Yamamoto about high school freshman...
Joe Odagiri is the rebel face of Japanese Cinema since the early 2000s. At the Venice Film Festival, the actor known from blockbusters like “World of Kanako”...
In an interview with IndieWire back in 1996, one year before the death of the famous Zatoichi actor Shintaro Katsu, Takashi Miike said “I plan to make some...
During the peak of their careers, Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng join Johnnie To's light farce “Love on a Diet”. The romantic comedy that follows up on To's “Needing...