Machiko Kyo. Japanese star Machiko Kyo was seen in several of the most widely admired cinema classics of the 1950s, including Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon, Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu, and Teinosuke Kinugasa’s…
Japanese Cinema
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Scariest Movies Ever Made: Chicago Critics’ Top 100. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, tops the list but a number of strange and spooky omissions.
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Like Someone in Love (movie 2012) review: Tokyo-set Abbas Kiarostami drama offers a stylish and intriguing look at a dysfunctional ‘love triangle.’
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Nagisa Oshima: In the Realm of the Senses Iconoclastic Filmmaker dead at 80 Nagisa Oshima, best known as the director of the sexually charged 1976 psychological drama Ai No Corrida…
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Toshiro Mifune (second from right) in Seven Samurai. The Academy had its John Hughes tribute on Sunday. Tonight, Turner Classic Movies is paying tribute to someone who may not be…
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Zhang Yimou and John Woo Honorary Awards + Air Disaster Drama starring Ken Watanabe Tops Japanese Academy Award Nominations.
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Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai in The Human Condition Masaki Kobayashi’s The Human Condition, based on Jumpei Gomikawa’s novel, is probably as well known for its scope and scale as for…
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The Masseurs and a Woman. The usual 1930s Japanese film preoccupations with societal roles are explored in writer-director Hiroshi Shimizu’s moving Anma to onna / The Masseurs and a Woman…
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Spirited Away directed by Hayao Miyazaki. As part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ three-month celebration of anime, a screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2002 Oscar-winning animated feature…
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Wedding Peach. ANIME! High Art - Pop Culture “ANIME! High Art - Pop Culture,” a multimedia exhibition spotlighting the art of Japanese animation, will have its American premiere at the…
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Erotic sex stories: “Debauched Desires.” PRESS RELEASE Kino International and KimStim are proud to release the four-DVD set Debauched Desires: Four Erotic Masterpieces by Masaru Konuma. Directed by the master…
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Tokyo Sonata (movie 2008) review: Kiyoshi Kurosawa exposes the unraveling of Japan’s traditional social fabric in this capably acted urban drama. Teruyuki Kagawa and Kyôko Koizumi star.
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Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the…
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Sisters of the Gion (movie 1936) review: Set (and filmed) in pre-World War II Japan, Kenji Mizoguchi’s female-centered melodrama weaves a fine ‘feminist’ tale. Isuzu Yamada stars.
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The Bad Sleep Well (movie 1960) review: Akira Kurosawa’s corporate corruption drama deserves to be as widely admired as the Japanese filmmaker’s better-known classics.
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Godzilla (movie 1954) review: Released nine years after atomic bombs were dropped on two Japanese cities, this Ishirô Honda classic features one of cinema’s greatest monsters.
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Two-time Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker Shohei Imamura died in Tokyo on May 30. The 79-year-old Japanese filmmaker had been suffering from liver cancer. Born in Tokyo in 1926, Imamura entered a…
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Princess Raccoon (movie 2005) review: Seijun Suzuki’s challenging but noteworthy musical mixes various cinematic genres and styles. Zhang Ziyi and Joe Odagiri star.
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This fall, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is presenting the film series “Early Autumn: Masterworks of Japanese Cinema from the National Film Center, Tokyo.” The series consists of…
Black Rain. Animego’s DVD release of Shohei Imamura’s Black Rain includes as a bonus feature a selection of World War II-era anti-Japanese propaganda films. Sponsored by various U.S. government bureaucracies,…
House / Hausu by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Schedule and synopses from the American Cinematheque website. Wednesday, September 23 - 7:30 PM Japanese Cult Classics Double Feature: HOUSE (HAUSU), 1977, Janus Films,…
Nagisa Oshima. “No other director of Oshima’s generation has made more vital, inventive and challenging films, or taken more risks. He is a giant in contemporary cinema.” - Tony Rayns…
In addition to a screening of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have another East Asian cinematic event in the upcoming weeks: an…
Seven Samurai (movie 1954) review: This acclaimed Akira Kurosawa classic is one of those rare films that keep improving with each new viewing. Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura star.