Interview
Daisuke Miyazaki
The independent Japanese filmmaker discusses time capsule cinema, music, and place.
Japanese cinema
Essay
Happy Hour
On Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s international breakthrough film.
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Essay
Moving
On Shinji Sômai’s’s youthful exuberance.
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Essay
Giant Steps
Essay [wpbb post:title] By Howard Hampton On Giants and Toys, Masumura’s gaudy satire of a profit-mad, postwar Japan. Giants and Toys screens at Metrograph until December 9 and At Home until December 16. From its opening credits, Yasuzô Masumura’s 1958 satire Giants and Toys establishes a narrative flow that’s pugnacious, cunningly stylized, and self-aware. Anticipating…
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Excerpt
Is It a Breakthrough? (The Modernists of Japanese Film)
Essay
The Intellectual and Sociopolitical Exploitations of Yasuzô Masumura
Essay [wpbb post:title] By Jonathan Rosenbaum The sublime madness of Yasuzô Masumura. The Yasuzô Masumura Series plays at Metrograph until December 9. What do we mean when we talk about exploitation films? Most often, we’re alluding to sensation-driven movies that are politically incorrect, like those of Quentin Tarantino. And what are we saying when we…
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