Following up the bizarre “The Burning Buddha Man”, director Ujicha again employs a blend of animation and manga called “geki-mation,” a process creating...
Tag - Japan
Is it possible to make a film that mixes friendship themes in the style of Shunji Iwai with the intrigue and bizarre terror of Takashi Miike? The new director...
For a country with such a rich visual history in their films, it would seem that another effort would've come along by now that tackled the so-called ‘Avant...
“Au Revoir l'Été” by Kôji Fukada is a little gem of a movie, simple and yet multilayered and visually enchanting. It is a story of transition to adulthood, the...
Gentle comedy “Enokida Trading Post” is the latest work of Gunma-born director Ken Iizuka who, this time, chooses to go back to the familiar ground of his own...
After asking a number of artists that appear in our reviews and interviews, both in AMP and Asian Film Vault, to list their favorite movies of their country...
This year's BIFF (Busan International Film Festival) award for Asian Filmmaker of the Year went to the recently deceased Japanese film director Suzuki Seijun...
1994 sex-comedy movie Getting Any?, which was edited, written and directed by Takeshi Kitano (Fireworks, Kikujiro, Outrage), finally gets released on blu-ray...
In the course of the 1960s some of Japan's most creative and prominent film directors grew frustrated with the mainstream studios restricting their artistic...
If your weekends are anything like mine, most times they are filled with movie and drama marathons. While I do enjoy the occasional interaction with other...