By Oliver Thom One half of the greatest collaborative gift Japanese cinema has ever given to the world, Toshiro Mifune, with his 17 year, 16 film association with director Akira Kurosawa, was Japan’s principal leading […]
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Dir: Yojiro Takita Review by: Maria Yaa Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 81st Oscars in 2009 and the Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, Departures is a heart-warming and delightful tearjerker. […]
Dir: David Zellner Review by: Daria Landal Minnesota’s unlikely urban legend, a depressed Japanese woman lost in the woods of Fargo in the fall of 2001, gets a reincarnation with a new film by David […]
Dir: Koji Fukada By: Sarah Jilani Reminiscent in tone to a mix of Franí§oise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse and Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale, Japanese director Fukada’s gentle coming-of-age film takes place at the end of a […]
By Weerada Sucharitkul What does it take to be the best of the best in the world? “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” is a poignant and inspiring portrait documentary on 85-year old sushi master Jiro Ono who runs […]