picture: 'Reflections in a Midnight Eye'
Category
Feature
Published
29 June 2015

Reflections in a Midnight Eye

MIDNIGHT EYE RETIRES. After 15 years of making the world's go-to source for info on Japanese cinema in English, we're calling it a day.

picture: 'Seventh Code'
Category
Film Review
Published
9 March 2015

Seventh Code

Year
2014

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's one-hour, shot-in-Russia promo for a J-pop idol reveals hidden cinematic depths.

picture: 'The Sun’s Burial'
Category
Film Review
Published
9 March 2015

The Sun’s Burial

Year
1960

Revisiting Nagisa Oshima's early feature about life in the underbelly of post-war Osaka.

picture: 'Over Your Dead Body'
Category
Film Review
Published
5 September 2014

Over Your Dead Body

Year
2014

Miike's riff on The Ghost Story of Yotsuya evokes both the supernatural and the resolutely down-to-earth

picture: 'The Garden of Words'
Category
Film Review
Published
5 September 2014

The Garden of Words

Year
2013

Makoto Shinkai's latest animated mini-feature explores everyday fleeting moments of love, beauty, and heartbreak.

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picture: 'Midnight Eye’s Best (and Worst) of 2014'
Category
Feature
Published
3 February 2015

Midnight Eye’s Best (and Worst) of 2014

What was up in Japanese film in 2014? Ask the makers of Midnight Eye.

picture: 'The Realism of Fantasy: A Tribute to Fujio Morita'
Category
Feature
Published
15 December 2014

The Realism of Fantasy: A Tribute to Fujio Morita

Tracing the lineage of one of Japan's greatest cinematographers, from Daimajin to Hitokiri and beyond.

Category
Book Review
Published
21 December 2013
picture: 'Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980'

Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980

At 820 pages, Chris D's long-in-the-making yakuza movie tome has been worth the wait.

Category
Book Review
Published
3 September 2012
picture: 'Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture'

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
picture: 'Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji'

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
picture: 'A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan'

A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan

Aaron Gerow clarifies the many mysteries and misconceptions surrounding Teinosuke Kinugasa's silent classic.

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