For this New Year’s, instead of asking people from the Asian movie industry for wishes, we decided to create a compilation of people laughing during our...
Tag - Atsushi Funahashi
Japanese cinema has been on a somewhat successful stalemate for years now, with the titles produced (at least the ones we manage to sea in the West out of the...
Atsushi Funahashi talks to Panos Kotzathanasis about “Burden of the Past“, shooting a film about recidivism and ex-convicts, taking on so many...
"We have the power to reform any criminal"
Instead of simply writing our wishes to all our readers, for 2021 we decided to ask our friends to do so. Mattie Do, Joko Anwar, Taku Tsuboi, Indrasis Acharya...
Since the pandemic did not disrupt the production of films in the Japanese movie industry, at least not as much as in other countries, 2020 was another year...
We speak with Atshushi Funahashi about his new cut of Lovers on Borders, shooting a film in Portugal, Japanese society and particularly the issue of...
Funahashi's documentary/stage-play/feature approach manages to communicate the sexual harassment issue in the best fashion.