©Courtesy of Japan Cuts In Takeshi Kitano’s gangster movies, a lot of fingers get chopped. For this samurai historical epic, he steps up to head-chopping. To be fair, Kitano’s yakuza probably lopped off a few heads of their own, but during Japan’s Sengoku Era, collecting severed heads was the preferred method of proving the death…
I’ll remember it all. Though I won’t recall it. The words echo in the theater and a man’s androgynous face makes expressive grimaces on a large screen. In front of it, the same man, long haired with sideboards, moves down in fright, like he’s detaching himself. Just before, a police squad has arrived at a house…
Synopsis : Filmmaker and photographer Elizabeth Lennard secures unprecedented access to Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording of his 1984 album Ongaku Zukan in this brief-yet-insightful Franco-Japanese television co-production. A sampling of studio sessions and performances (including a piano duet with then-wife Akiko Yano), archival footage and talking head interviews, Tokyo Melody finds the eccentric artist at…
Two months after the Great Hanshin Earthquake Disaster killed 6,433 people and caused more than $100 billion in damages, a sarin gas attack took place in a Tokyo subway in 1995. Harrowing sounds echoed throughout the subway which sent shivers down to the spine of a first responder. The incident shocked the world, and was…
Yoichi Sai, a renowned director from the 1993 film “All Under the Moon” and the 2004 film “Blood and Bones,” died of bladder cancer at his home in Tokyo on Sunday, his family said. He was 73. He was born in Nagano prefecture in 1943, between his Zainichi(South Korean residing in Japan)father and a half(Korean…
Gekidan Hitori’s Asakusa Kid is shot in Japan and retraces the life of Takeshi Kitano and his first experiences as a comedian of “Beat.” Considered one of the most important living oriental directors for his peculiar style and the originality of his cinema, this biopic is based on Kitano’s autobiography. Through a series of insightful…
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