Living in a small remote town, Akira takes one various job and roles within his community including postman and tattoo artist. One of his more eccentric...
Tag - Camera Japan
Enduring a laborious monotony for a purgatorial lifetime used to be confined to the annals of myths and legends, etched into the pages of stories where men...
Following the events of the first “Vampire Clay“, director Soichi Umeuzawa brings the bloodthirsty muddy monster back to terrorize a new group of...
Ever since the days of the great Yasujiro Ozu, the family drama has been a fixed entity within the cinematic landscape of Japan. While dealing with human...
The anime industry in Japan is actually much larger than what we know in the West, where we get to see just a portion of the works produced, particularly...
In the plethora of family dramas coming out of Japan, it is always a pleasure to see films that manage to stray away from the “Koreeda path” even...
Haruhiko Arai (recently portrayed by Kisetsu Fujiwara in “Dare to Stop Us“) has always been a somewhat controversial personality in his more than...
Toshiaki Toyoda is an angry man. Angry for the “treatment” he experienced at the hands of the police for the second time, angry about the greed...
Nearly there! The 15th CAMERA JAPAN Festival in Rotterdam kicks off at WORM this week with a double-screening of “The Day of Destruction” by Toyoda...
The final part of “The Hakodate Trilogy” based on the writings of Yasushi Sato, Nobuhiro Yamashita's “Over the Fence” is a...