Following up the bizarre “The Burning Buddha Man”, director Ujicha again employs a blend of animation and manga called “geki-mation,” a...
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I have to admit, I find a number of Naomi Kawase's films repeating, too self-conscious and occasionally even pretentious, despite their more than evident...
After growing up in Aomori and graduating from college, Thunder Sawada held jobs working for a land shark, customer support, and freelance writing before...
“… and there are moments I feel beauty in those around me.” Nature and its preservation have always been one of the most important themes in...
In a cinema as the Japanese, where erotic scenes seem almost forbidden (except from exploitation films, but that is a whole new other level of depiction), it...
Born in 1987 in Hirakata (Osaka Prefecture) Kaori Oda had to abandon her dream of becoming a basketball player at an early age. Eventually she decided to study...
“The nail that sticks out shall be hammered down” is nowadays an almost overused proverb to describe the conformity of Japanese society. The...
Toda is an independent documentary filmmaker based in London and Osaka whose work focuses on marginalized communities. Her films have screened on BBC...
It devastated a nation and left billions across the world speechless. Swallowing whole regions deep into the sea, the merciless waters claimed the lives of...
“Some things I cannot resist filming, they demand it.” Ever since the arrival of film as a medium and as an art, the possibilities of it have been...