- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 20 May 2013
Udine Far East Film Festival 2013
Roger Macy comments on the Japanese selection at Europe's main venue for Asian mainstream film.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 20 May 2013
The Intermission
- Year
- 2013
A rich and remarkable movie that pays tribute to the act of film-viewing, film-going, and much more besides.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 20 May 2013
Petrel Hotel Blue
- Year
- 2012
One of Koji Wakamatsu's last films before his untimely passing.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 20 May 2013
Slow Life
- Year
- 2013
Urbanites trade the city for the countryside and restart their lives in post-Fukushima Japan - as filmed by a French director.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 20 May 2013
A Wife Confesses
- Year
- 1961
One of Yasuzo Masumura's more passionate and stylized early films, naturally starring Ayako Wakao.
- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 24 April 2013
Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike
Introducing the new book by Tom Mes, the companion piece to his influential and acclaimed tome, Agitator.
- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 24 April 2013
Return to Yubari
The snowy town and its fantastic film festival retain their magic, as well as a fascinating line-up of films that includes some real discoveries.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 3 September 2012
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Steven T. Brown's inspiring and long-overdue exploration of a genre that remains relevant.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 13 May 2011
Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
Examining Steven C. Ridgely's new study of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in Japanese film and art.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 14 March 2011
A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Aaron Gerow clarifies the many mysteries and misconceptions surrounding Teinosuke Kinugasa's silent classic.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 10 August 2010
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Daisuke Miyao's fascinating study explores the life and career of the world's first Japanese movie star.
