The third Yasujiro Ozu movie in our recent appreciation of Japanese Cinema is his 1960 masterpiece Late Autumn. It is a film which continues many of the themes of the… Continue reading "Late Autumn: Ozu’s generational masterpiece."
Recently in the third in our series of retrospectives on some of my favourite films from Japanese cinema, I wrote of my love for Yasujiro Ozu’s masterpiece Tokyo Story. It is a film which, despite being… Continue reading "The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family: Ozu’s Lesser Masterwork."
If there was ever a film that captured the anxiety of the modern world as it is right now it’s Shin Godzilla directed by Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi. It’s… Continue reading "Shin Godzilla (2016): A New Nuclear Threat."
There have been few films which have managed to balance being stylistically distinctive, psychologically interesting, culturally enlightening and, to top it all, entertaining. It’s a list populated by some of the true greats of cinema;… Continue reading "Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953) – A very human tale."
A long time ago during those first flourishes of cinephilia that would consume my life, I made it my duty to watch as many films as I could. I wanted… Continue reading "Rashomon (1950) – Akira Kurosawa & the language of Japanese Cinema."
1950s Japan was a very fertile period in time for movies with some of the greatest, most artistic films ever made being released. It was a time of Kurosawa, Ozu, Mifune, Honda and Mizoguchi, filmmakers… Continue reading "Seven Samurai (1954) – Kurosawa’s Beautiful Action Epic."
