With the focus on mid and short films increasing significantly this year, Osaka Asian Film Festival presented another quite intriguing edition, with the...
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"This is kidnapping, Jimmy"
Combining the horrific with the grotesque and the sensual in order to both entertain and to present various comments in extreme fashion has always been one of...
Tom Mes, in his book “Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto” writes: The international breakthrough of Tsukamoto and Tetsuo came at a time when Japanese...
National cinemas come and go from the top, which is currently dominated by Korea, as it did by Hong Kong some decades ago, but the truth remains that the only...
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...
Tetsuya Mariko (1981, Japan) studied at the University of Hosei and Image Forum. He received international recognition with his short film “Far East...
Tetsuya Mariko sent ripples across the international festival circuit back in 2016, when cult sensation “Destruction Babies” showed a unique view on...
Winner of the Best New Director prize at the Locarno Film Festival, and one of the greatest recent Japanese films, alongside “Hime-Anole“, “Destruction Babies”...