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...
Tag - Naoko Ogigami
2023 was a weird year for Asian cinema. Although the “usual” Japanese masters were here once more (Miyazaki, Koreeda, Hamaguchi), the Korean movie...
Yoriko SUDO (Mariko TSUTSUI) is a woman in her 50s. She draws fine ripples in the sand every morning as she tends to the Zen garden in her yard, which seems...
Adriana Rosati talks with director Naoko Ogigami on the occasion of her film “Riverside Mukolitta” screening as part of Japan Society's “The...
"Say the 7 times table in reverse to overcome fear"
Yamada started working at a “salted squid” factory in the nameless town of Hokuriku and started living in a cheap apartment called “Heights...
"Say the 7 times table in reverse to overcome fear"
An act of rebellion against a nerdy pudding-bowl haircut gets a deeper meaning in the whimsical debut feature from directress Naoko Ogigami.
