Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer © 1939 Shochiku Co., Ltd. “Kindred to Jean Renoir, and even anticipating Hou Hsiao-hsien, was a man in Japan who brought a new wind to cinema: Hiroshi Shimizu.” —Ryusuke Hamaguchi “Ozu and I create films through hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.” —Kenji Mizoguchi New York, New York, April 4,…
After winning the Oscar for his acclaimed feature Drive My Car, Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi is back with his latest project, Evils Does Not Exist-which is already showing at some of prestigious film festivals such as Venice, New York and London Film Festival. Now, Janus Film has dropped a new trailer for the ecological fable…
Japanese filmmakers Hirokazu Kore-eda was a big winner at last night’s Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. For the second consecutive year, Kore-eda captured the Best Director title, this time for his latest feature, Monster. The prolific director had won the prize a year ago for Broker, a Korean-language film. Discussing his most recent award,…
Synopsis : Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house; offering city residents a comfortable ‘escape’…
Two Japanese filmmakers who have made waves have sparked conversations with arthouse filmgoers. They have already prompted some of the most interesting debates on the festival circuit at Cannes, Venice, Toronto and now New York. Both high-profile, award-winning Japanese directors Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamguchi have posed questions to their audiences through their film titles:…
Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist has won the top prize at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which closed today. In announcing the award, the jury stated: “Subtle, cinematic and underscored by fully realized performances, Hamaguchi’s assured drama supersedes the sum of its parts. online pharmacy buy rybelsus online with best prices…
A prestigious Italian film festival, the 80th Venice Film Festival handed out the Golden Lion to Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.” The Greek filmmaker’s latest, which also stars Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, is based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name and follows Stone as Bella Baxter, a creation of the brilliant and…
@Evil Does Not Exist Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American distribution rights to Evil Does Not Exist, a new feature by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning 2021 film Drive My Car had also been a Sideshow/Janus property. In announcing the deal, the two distributors said in a joint statement: “Hamaguchi is a…
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) announces the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 61st New York Film Festival (NYFF), taking place September 29–October 15 at Lincoln Center and in venues across the city. “The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our…
After director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” garnered every prestigious critic awards and the Oscar last year, Japan hopes to repeat its success with Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature film, “Plan 75” which government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing,…
It’s almost time for the 94th annual Academy Awards, so our writers Abe Friedtanzer, Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi, Karen Butler, Karen Benardello, Matthew Schuchman, Nobuhiro Hosoki are making picks in 6 major categories. Here’s Our List of Choices! Abe Friedtanzer Best Picture: CODA Best Director: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) Best Actor in a…
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